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与小政治之间的互动如何影响所述小型政体在地方和地区一级的人群。随着全球相互联系的增加以及全球经济体系的持续发展，这些系统对当地人口的影响（无论是积极和负面）已成为越来越重要的研究重点。考古学特别适合检查过去的类似互动过程，因此可以告知目前的这些经济和政治扩张过程。在古老的中美洲的经典时期（公元300 - 900年），大型城市Teotihuacan（位于当今墨西哥城附近）与许多其他地区进行了各种形式的接触。互动形式包括贸易，征服和文化传播。该项目将集中于与墨西哥南部韦拉克鲁斯南部塞拉利亚州Teotihuacan互动的一个位置。它将解决Teotihuacan的影响对该地区当地人口的影响，并评估这种影响改变区域社会和经济体系的方式。这样一来，该项目将有助于对经济扩张的一般研究，并实施一种方法，从当地的角度来检查外国引起的区域经济变化，这可以广泛应用。这项研究将由亚利桑那州立大学博士生内森·威尔逊（Nathan D. Wilson）进行，在迈克尔·E·史密斯（Michael E.该项目的数据将作为威尔逊先生博士学位论文的基础。这项研究探讨了周围纳入较大系统的问题以及该过程如何在区域上表现出来。它实现了世界系统框架，以量化与核心相关人群与谈判的外围之间的相互作用。为了评估这一点，它将研究墨西哥南部Veracruz西部的Tuxtlas地区（WTR）进口商品的外围消费。通过多种证据，这项研究将确定与侵入性中心（Matacapan）有关的两个WTR政体的区域经济影响，该政治与墨西哥高地首都Teotihuacan有关。该地区的先前研究集中在与Matacapan相关的特定陶器类型的密集生产和区域内际分布。该项目将通过以前的研究为基础：（1）更有效地量化这些产品在两个邻近政体中的消费，以及（2）评估其他Matacapan生产的商品的分布和消费。这样一来，它将建立一个区域性的，历时性的看法，以通过与Matacapan的互动融入到Teotihuacan世界系统中的这两个土著政治（以及其中一个政体中的不同人口）的不同方式。拟议的研究旨在用于分析方法（例如属性分析，仪器中子激活分析[INAA]和岩石学），以帮助区分早期和中期的经典时期环境，评估黑曜石视觉采购的准确性，以及单独的当地功利性陶器类型的准确性。先前发掘的材料的样品选择将在墨西哥进行，而样本制备以及化学和矿物学分析将由美国实验室完成。