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

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峰会上祖先切罗基社区的影响。它利用长期考古数据来研究当今世界许多地区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被考古学家确定为密西西比化的文化转型过程。密西西比化（公元900年至1500年）的漫长过程在美国中西部和东南部的许多美洲原住民社区展开，通过文物风格和社区实践的相似性进行考古学鉴定。那么，山区社区如何应对他们遇到的密西西比州的做法？ 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研究中心，变化的表达方式是否不同？ 使用最近的挖掘在Pisgah村网站（甘蔗河网站）和以前挖掘的收藏品从这个网站和从土堆和村中心（花园溪网站）的分析，本研究将比较考古组合和空间组织的家庭和社群活动在阿巴拉契亚中部首脑会议期间的重大文化转型。本项目的目标是（1）调查密西西比接触和交流影响主要的皮斯加定居点的程度和（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。这项研究有可能产生一个更全面的图片早期密西西比州的出现和周边地缘政治区域的相互作用。这将告知密西西比州的研究在整个东部林地，以及提供更深入的了解早期复杂的前状态形成在多个规模的社会interactions.This研究Pisgah社区将有更广泛的影响当地社区教育，更广泛的区域考古学家之间的合作，并参与和参与与后裔社区。当地一所中学的支持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收藏品，该项目保留了现场考古记录，同时承认附近大学的收藏品。该项目吸引了其他利益攸关方的参与，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成果和发现。结果和数据将通过同行评审的出版物和考古数据的在线数字档案，数字考古记录（tDAR）共享。公共宣传将包括在当地博物馆举办展览，并在当地博物馆和会议上举办讲座。

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.