Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Effect Of Culture Contact On Household And Community Organization

博士论文改进奖：文化接触对家庭和社区组织的影响

• 批准号: 1541663
• 负责人: Robin Beck
• 金额: $ 2.05万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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: 2015-08-15 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541663&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Effect

Under the guidance of Dr. Robin Beck, Ashley Schubert will investigate the influence of cultural interaction on ancestral Cherokee communities in the Appalachian Summit of North Carolina. It takes advantage of long term archaeological data to examine a process of interactional caused change which continues today in many parts of the world. The project will examine Native American life during the late prehistoric period when some Appalachian communities underwent a process of cultural transformation identified by archaeologists as Mississippianization. The long process of Mississippianization (AD 900-1500) that unfolded in many Native American communities across the midwestern and southeastern United States is identified archaeologically by similarities in artifact styles and community practices. How, then, did mountain communities respond to Mississippian practices that they encountered? How does the process of social integration or resistance play out in household activities and in public contexts? Is change expressed differently at sites that experience differing degrees of contact? Using recent excavations at a Pisgah village site (the Cane River site) and analysis of previously excavated collections from this site and from a mound and village center (the Garden Creek site), this research will compare the archaeological assemblages and spatial organization of both household and community activities across the central Appalachian Summit during a time of major cultural transformation. The goals of this project are (1) to investigate the extent to which Mississippian contact and exchange influenced major Pisgah settlements and (2) to evaluate how these changes affected community practice within the ecology of the Appalachian Summit. This research has the potential to generate a more comprehensive picture of early Mississippian emergence and interaction across a peripheral geopolitical region. This will inform Mississippian studies across the Eastern Woodlands, as well as provide greater insights into early complex pre-state formations at multiple scales of social interaction.This research on Pisgah communities will have broader impacts on local community education, broader collaboration among regional archaeologists, and participation and involvement with descendant communities. Excavations behind a local middle school facilitated an investment of the project into community education and stewardship. By utilizing educational opportunities during excavation and making use of existing archaeological collections, this project preserves the in situ archaeological record while simultaneously acknowledging the collections curated in nearby universities. This project has engaged other stakeholders, including archaeologists from the Pisgah National Forest and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, and facilitates a more robust understanding of the archaeological record in western North Carolina while ensuring that results and findings are shared with descendent communities. Results and data will be shared through peer-reviewed publications and the online digital archive for archaeological data, the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR). Public outreach will include instillation of a local museum exhibit and lectures given at local museums and conferences.

在罗宾·贝克博士的指导下，阿什利·舒伯特将调查文化互动对北卡罗来纳州阿巴拉契亚山峰切罗基祖先社区的影响。它利用长期考古数据来研究当今世界许多地方仍在继续的相互作用引起的变化过程。 该项目将研究史前晚期美洲原住民的生活，当时一些阿巴拉契亚社区经历了考古学家称之为密西西比化的文化转型过程。在美国中西部和东南部的许多美洲原住民社区中展开的漫长的密西西比化过程（公元 900-1500 年）在考古学上通过文物风格和社区实践的相似性得以确定。那么，山区社区如何应对他们遇到的密西西比人的做法呢？ 社会融合或抵抗的过程如何在家庭活动和公共环境中发挥作用？ 在经历不同程度接触的地点，变化的表达方式是否不同？ 这项研究将利用最近在皮斯加村庄遗址（凯恩河遗址）的发掘以及对该遗址以及土丘和村庄中心（花园溪遗址）先前出土的藏品的分析，对重大文化转型时期阿巴拉契亚山脉中部的考古组合以及家庭和社区活动的空间组织进行比较。该项目的目标是（1）调查密西西比人的接触和交流对皮斯加主要定居点的影响程度；（2）评估这些变化如何影响阿巴拉契亚山峰生态中的社区实践。这项研究有可能对早期密西西比河的出现和周边地缘政治区域的相互作用产生更全面的了解。这将为整个东部林地的密西西比研究提供信息，并为社会互动的多个尺度上的早期复杂的建国前形成提供更深入的见解。这项对皮斯加社区的研究将对当地社区教育、区域考古学家之间更广泛的合作以及后裔社区的参与和参与产生更广泛的影响。当地一所中学后面的挖掘促进了该项目对社区教育和管理的投资。通过利用挖掘过程中的教育机会和现有的考古藏品，该项目保留了现场考古记录，同时认可了附近大学收藏的藏品。该项目吸引了其他利益相关者的参与，包括来自皮斯加国家森林和切罗基印第安人东部部落的考古学家，并促进对北卡罗来纳州西部考古记录的更深入了解，同时确保与后代社区分享结果和发现。结果和数据将通过同行评审出版物和考古数据在线数字档案馆数字考古记录（tDAR）进行共享。公共宣传将包括在当地博物馆举办展览以及在当地博物馆和会议上举办讲座。