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·舒伯特将在北卡罗来纳州阿巴拉契亚峰会上调查文化互动对切诺基祖先社区的影响。它利用长期的考古数据来研究由相互作用引起的变化过程，这一过程至今在世界许多地区仍在继续。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被考古学家认定为密西西比化的文化转型过程。密西西比化的漫长过程(公元900-1500年)在美国中西部和东南部的许多美洲原住民社区展开，从考古角度来看，这一过程是通过文物风格和社区实践的相似之处来确定的。那么，山区社区如何应对他们遇到的密西西比州的做法呢？社会融合或抵抗的进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，变化是否表现得不同？利用最近对Pisgah村落遗址(Cane River遗址)的发掘，以及对该遗址和丘陵和村庄中心(Garden Creek遗址)先前出土收藏品的分析，这项研究将比较阿巴拉契亚山脉中部峰会在重大文化转型时期的考古组合和家庭和社区活动的空间组织。该项目的目标是(1)调查密西西比州人的接触和交流对主要的Pisgah定居点的影响程度；(2)评估这些变化如何影响阿巴拉契亚峰会生态内的社区实践。这项研究有可能对密西西比早期的崛起和外围地缘政治地区的相互作用产生更全面的描述。这将为密西西比州东部林地的研究提供信息，并提供更多关于早期复杂的州前社会互动形成的洞察力。这项关于双鱼座社区的研究将对当地社区教育、地区考古学家之间更广泛的合作以及对后代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。通过利用挖掘期间的教育机会和利用现有的考古藏品，该项目保留了原址考古记录，同时确认了附近大学收藏的藏品。该项目吸引了其他利益攸关方的参与，包括来自Pisgah国家森林和切诺基印第安人东部地带的考古学家，并促进了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议的出版物和考古数据在线数字档案馆--数字考古记录(TDAR)--共享。公众宣传将包括灌输当地博物馆的展品，以及在当地博物馆和会议上发表演讲。