Doctoral Dissertation Research Award: Social Interaction As Determined Through Spatial And Technological Analysis

南伊利诺伊大学的Kayeleigh Sharp将与一位美国和秘鲁的同事一起进行研究，以阐明在秘鲁北部海岸共存的两个种群之间关系的本质。以前的研究提出了各种可能的情况，从一个实体的统治地位迫使另一个实体处于从属的社会地位，到两个不同种族的人口随着时间的推移各自保持社会和政治自治的可能性。这种相互关系的本质如何在可见的物质文化中表现出来，包括他们的人工制品的风格？什么样的社会机制可能使这种长期共存成为可能？这些问题与当代社会不对称和种族相互关系的全球问题有关。他们的调查将包括探索各种分析视角和证据线，重点是社会、文化和情境因素，这些因素会影响组织和活动的地点，以及人们在制造和使用人工制品或技术选择时做出的选择。考古学很适合研究物质文化，特别是陶瓷，通过定性和定量的分析方法来分析人们如何在空间中创造和组织他们的日常活动。他们的日常实践将阐明这两个群体如何看待自己，并告知他们彼此之间的关系。综合空间分析，探索考古记录的模式差异，将更好地理解他们的社会相互关系和共存的物理维度。研究人员将研究技术选择和活动模式如何在空间上相互关联，并探讨人与物之间的关系如何促进考古身份和社会相互关系的形成。该研究将在位于mid-Zaña山谷的第一个千年Songoy-Cojal遗址的住宅区域进行，该遗址可通往北部海岸一些最重要的纪念性坟墓和城市中心。在这个小山谷中，共存的加里纳佐和莫奇卡文物为研究各种类型的社会相互关系提供了机会。研究人员和她的团队由一名美国人和来自当地一所大学的秘鲁考古学家组成，他们将对农村家庭进行深入研究，以阐明这一研究不足的地区的关系本质。目前，还没有为解决长期存在的辩论作出这种深入的努力。这些跨学科的数据集整合了计算机科学和地理信息科学的成熟方法，将增加对加里纳佐和莫奇卡共存的理解。这项工作构成了对长期依赖于丧葬和风格数据的传统研究的重大背离。作为这种传统类型的技术和活动分析的替代方案，该调查将为研究考古背景下的社会不对称和社会分化轴的分析工具包做出重大贡献。

Kayeleigh Sharp of the Southern Illinois University together with an American and Peruvian colleagues will undertake research to elucidate the nature of relationships between two populations that coexisted in time and space on the north coast of Peru. Previous studies have suggested various possible scenarios, from the dominance of one entity which forced the other into a subordinate social position, to the possibility that two ethnically distinct populations each maintained social and political autonomy over time. How would the nature of such interrelationships manifest in visible material culture including style of their artifacts? What social mechanisms might have enabled such long-standing coexistence? These questions are relevant to contemporary global issues of social asymmetry and ethnic interrelationships. Their investigation will include the exploration of various analytical perspectives and lines of evidence, with emphasis on the social, cultural and situational factors that influence organization and location of activities and choices people make in manufacturing and using artifacts, or technological choices. Archaeology is well positioned to study material culture, particularly ceramics, and analyze how people created and organized in space their quotidian activities by means of qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis. Their daily practices will elucidate how these two populations saw themselves and inform on their relationships to each other. Integrated spatial analyses that explore patterned differences in the archaeological record, will yield better understanding of the physical dimensions of their social interrelationships and coexistence.Researchers will examine how technological choices and activity patterns are related spatially, and explore how the relationship between people and things contributed to the formation of archaeological identities and social interrelationships. The research will be conducted in the residential sector of the first-millennium Songoy-Cojal site situated in the mid-Zaña Valley, which is accessible to some of the north coast's most important monumental tombs and urban centers. In this small valley, coexisting Gallinazo and Mochica artifacts present the opportunity to study various types of social interrelationships that were in place. The researcher and her team consisting of one American and a small number of Peruvian archaeologists from a local university will undertake the in-depth study of rural households to elucidate the nature of relationships in this understudied region. At present, no in-depth effort of this kind has been put forth to resolve long-standing debates. With the integration of established methods borrowed from computer science and geographical information sciences, these interdisciplinary datasets will increase understanding of Gallinazo and Mochica coexistence. This work constitutes a major departure from traditional studies that long relied on funerary and stylistic data. As an alternative to such traditional types of technological and activity analysis, the investigation will make a significant contribution to the analytical toolkit for studying social asymmetries and the axes of social differentiation in archaeological contexts.