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和小政体之间的互动如何影响当地和区域层面的小政体人口。随着全球互联性的增强和世界经济体系的持续发展，这些系统对当地人口的积极和消极影响已成为越来越重要的研究焦点。考古学特别适合研究过去类似的相互作用过程，因此可以了解当前经济和政治扩张的过程。在古代中美洲的经典时期（公元300-900年），大城市特奥蒂瓦坎（位于今墨西哥城附近）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。该项目将重点关注与特奥蒂瓦坎互动的一个地点，即墨西哥韦拉克鲁斯州南部的塞拉德洛斯图斯特拉斯地区。它将讨论特奥蒂瓦坎对该地区当地居民的影响，并评估这种影响改变地区社会和经济体系的方式。在此过程中，该项目将有助于经济扩张的一般研究，并实现一种从本地角度审视外国引发的区域经济变化的方法，该方法可以广泛应用。这项研究将由亚利桑那州立大学博士生 Nathan D. Wilson 在 Michael E. Smith 博士的指导下进行。该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纳入更大系统的问题以及这一过程如何在区域内体现。它实施了一个世界体系框架来量化核心附属人口与协商外围人口之间的互动。为了评估这一点，它将研究墨西哥韦拉克鲁斯州南部西图斯特拉斯地区（WTR）的进口商品的外围消费。通过多种证据，本研究将确定两个 WTR 政体的区域经济影响，这两个政体与一个侵入性中心（马塔卡潘）相连，该中心显示出与墨西哥高地首府特奥蒂瓦坎的文化联系。该地区先前的研究重点是与马塔卡潘相关的特定陶器类型的集约化生产和区域性、跨政体分布。该项目将通过以下方式建立在先前的研究基础上：（1）更有效地量化两个邻近政体中这些产品的消费量；（2）评估其他马塔卡潘生产的商品的分配和消费。在此过程中，它将构建一种区域性、历时性的观点，以了解这两个本土政体（以及其中一个政体中的不同人口）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。拟议的研究面向分析方法（例如属性分析、仪器中子活化分析 [INAA] 和岩相学），以帮助区分早期和中期古典时期的背景，评估黑曜石视觉来源的准确性，并将本地实用陶器类型与进口版本分开。从先前挖掘的材料中进行样品选择将在墨西哥进行，而样品制备以及化学和矿物学分析将由美国的实验室完成。