Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Regional Interaction as World-System Incorporation in Classic Period Mesoamerica

博士论文改进补助金：经典时期中美洲世界体系一体化的区域互动

• 批准号: 1461806
• 负责人: Michael Smith
• 金额: $ 2.22万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1461806&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Regional

Researchers seek to understand how interaction between large states and small polities impacts populations of said small polities at the local and regional level. With increased global interconnectedness and the continued development of world-wide economic systems, the impacts of these systems on local populations, both positive and negative, have become an increasingly important focus of study. Archaeology is particularly well-suited to examine similar processes of interaction in the past and can therefore inform on these processes of economic and political expansion in the present. In the Classic Period (AD 300-900) of ancient Mesoamerica, the large city of Teotihuacan (located near present-day Mexico City), engaged in various forms of contact with many other regions. Forms of interaction included trade, conquest, and cultural dissemination. This project will focus on one location of interaction with Teotihuacan, the Sierra de los Tuxtlas Region of Southern Veracruz, Mexico. It will address the impacts of Teotihuacan influence on local populations in the region and assess the ways in which this influence altered regional social and economic systems. In doing so, this project will contribute to the general study of economic expansion and implements an approach to examine foreign-induced regional economic change from the local perspective, which can be applied broadly. This research will be conducted by Arizona State University doctoral student Nathan D. Wilson, under the direction of Dr. Michael E. Smith. Data from this project will serve as the basis for Mr. Wilson's doctoral dissertation.This research addresses the issue of peripheral incorporation into larger systems and how this process is manifest regionally. It implements a world-systems framework in quantifying interaction between core-affiliated populations and a negotiated periphery. To evaluate this, it will study peripheral consumption of imported goods in the Western Tuxtlas Region (WTR) of southern Veracruz, Mexico. Through multiple lines of evidence, this research will ascertain the regional economic effects for two WTR polities that were connected to an intrusive center (Matacapan) displaying cultural affiliation to the Mexican highland capital of Teotihuacan. Prior research in the region has focused on intensive production and regional, interpolity distribution of specific pottery types associated with Matacapan. This project will build upon this previous research by: (1) more effectively quantifying consumption of these products in two neighboring polities and (2) assessing distribution and consumption of other Matacapan-produced goods. In doing so, it will construct a regional, diachronic view of the different ways through which these two indigenous polities (and different populations within one of the polities) incorporated into a Teotihuacan world-system via interaction with Matacapan. The proposed research is geared toward analytical methods (e.g., attribute analysis, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis [INAA], and petrography) to help differentiate between Early and Middle Classic Period contexts, assess the accuracy of visual sourcing of obsidian, and separate local utilitarian pottery types from imported versions. Sample selection from previously excavated materials will be done in Mexico, while sample preparation and chemical and mineralogical analyses will be completed by laboratories in the United States.

研究人员试图了解大国家和小政治之间的互动如何在地方和地区层面影响所述小政治的人口。随着全球互联程度的提高和世界经济体系的持续发展，这些体系对当地人口的积极和消极影响已成为越来越重要的研究重点。考古学特别适合于研究过去类似的相互作用过程，因此可以了解目前这些经济和政治扩张的过程。在古代中美洲的古典时期(公元300-900)，特奥蒂瓦坎的大城市(位于今天的墨西哥城附近)与许多其他地区进行了各种形式的接触。互动的形式包括贸易、征服和文化传播。该项目将侧重于与墨西哥南韦拉克鲁斯的塔斯特拉斯山脉地区特奥蒂瓦坎的一个互动地点。它将讨论特奥蒂瓦坎影响对该区域当地人口的影响，并评估这种影响改变区域社会和经济制度的方式。通过这样做，该项目将有助于对经济扩张的一般研究，并实现了一种从当地角度审查外国诱导的区域经济变化的方法，这种方法可以广泛应用。这项研究将由亚利桑那州立大学博士生内森·D·威尔逊在迈克尔·E·史密斯博士的指导下进行。来自这个项目的数据将作为威尔逊先生博士论文的基础。这项研究解决了外围设备整合到更大系统中的问题，以及这一过程如何在区域中表现出来。它实施了一个世界系统框架，以量化附属于核心的人口与谈判的边缘国家之间的互动。为了评估这一点，它将研究墨西哥韦拉克鲁斯南部西塔克斯特拉斯地区(WTR)的进口商品周边消费。通过多种证据，这项研究将确定两个WTR政体对地区经济的影响，这两个政体连接到一个侵入性中心(Matacapan)，展示了与墨西哥高地首府特奥蒂瓦坎的文化联系。该地区以前的研究主要集中在与Matacapan相关的特定陶器类型的集约化生产和区域插补分布上。该项目将建立在先前研究的基础上：(1)更有效地量化这些产品在两个相邻国家的消费，以及(2)评估其他马塔卡潘生产的商品的分配和消费。在这样做的过程中，它将构建一个地区性的、历时性的观点，展示这两个土著政体(以及其中一个政体内的不同人口)通过与马塔卡潘的互动融入特奥蒂瓦坎世界体系的不同方式。拟议的研究侧重于分析方法(例如，属性分析、仪器中子活化分析[INAA]和岩石学)，以帮助区分早期和中期古典时期的背景，评估黑玉岩视觉来源的准确性，并将本地实用陶器类型与进口版本区分开来。从以前出土的材料中挑选样品将在墨西哥进行，而样品准备和化学和矿物学分析将由美国的实验室完成。