Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Social and Environmental Impacts of Village Formation

博士论文改进奖：村庄形成的社会和环境影响

• 批准号: 1644544
• 负责人: Robert Hard
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644544&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Social

This research examines how social and environmental contexts are altered as groups of individuals aggregate and settle into sedentary village life. This is a cultural transformation that has occurred in many different societies across the world. The formation of villages requires a dramatic social and cultural reorganization, which entails a redefinition of social networks, personal and collective identities, and space and place, as people adjust to their new mode of living. This research will focus on the patterns of continuity and change in interaction and integration across time and space to explore the social processes involved in the cultural transformations that occurred prior to village formation. This process which started thousands of years ago continues today and is fueled by worldwide social mobility. This research also provides training and experience in curation procedures and fieldwork to several undergraduate students, which will assist them in developing the necessary skills to pursue a career in archaeologyThis research is concerned with understanding the social interactions and integration among communities that occurred just prior to village formation. Recent research has suggested that the basic social structure of village life developed alongside increasing sedentism, prior to the formation of villages. The Early Pithouse period (A.D. 200 to 700) in the Mogollon region of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona is ideally suited for this research because it marks just this step of the process. To explore these negotiations, this research uses a multi-scalar, historical framework that focuses on social interactions and integration among communities of practice. The data for this research will rely on ceramics, obsidian, and architectural features from existing artifact collections and excavation reports as well as an ongoing excavation project. Social interaction will be examined through pottery circulation, analyzed through instrumental neutron activation analysis and petrographic analysis, as well as obsidian procurement, analyzed through x-ray fluorescence. Integration among communities will be examined through technological and stylistic attributes of ceramics and architecture. In addition, accelerator mass spectrometry dating of radiocarbon samples will be used to further refine the chronology of the Mogollon Early Pithouse period. The results of these analyses will be compared across time and space to gain an understanding of how people negotiated their social and physical landscapes prior to village formation.

这项研究考察了社会和环境背景是如何随着个体群体的聚集和定居在久坐的乡村生活中而改变的。这是一种发生在世界各地许多不同社会的文化转型。村庄的形成需要戏剧性的社会和文化重组，这需要重新定义社会网络、个人和集体身份、空间和地点，因为人们适应了他们的新生活模式。本研究将聚焦于跨越时间和空间的互动和整合的连续性和变化模式，以探索在村庄形成之前发生的文化转型所涉及的社会过程。这一过程始于数千年前，至今仍在继续，并受到全球社会流动性的推动。这项研究还为几名本科生提供了管理程序和实地考察方面的培训和经验，这将帮助他们培养从事考古职业所需的技能。这项研究关注的是理解在村庄形成之前发生的社会互动和社区之间的整合。最近的研究表明，在村庄形成之前，村庄生活的基本社会结构随着定居主义的增加而发展。新墨西哥州西南部和亚利桑那州东南部的Mogollon地区的早期Pithouse时期（公元200年至700年）非常适合进行这项研究，因为它正好标志着这一过程的这一步。为了探索这些谈判，本研究使用了一个多尺度的历史框架，重点关注社会互动和实践社区之间的整合。这项研究的数据将依赖于陶瓷、黑曜石和建筑特征，这些特征来自现有的文物收藏和挖掘报告，以及正在进行的挖掘项目。社会互动将通过陶器流通进行检验，通过仪器中子活化分析和岩石学分析进行分析，以及黑曜石采购，通过x射线荧光分析。社区之间的整合将通过陶瓷和建筑的技术和风格属性进行检查。此外，放射性碳样品的加速器质谱定年将用于进一步完善Mogollon早期Pithouse时期的年表。这些分析的结果将在时间和空间上进行比较，以了解人们在村庄形成之前是如何协商他们的社会和自然景观的。

项目成果

Rethinking “Village” at Mogollon Village (LA 11568): Formal Chronological Modeling of a Persistent Place

重新思考莫戈隆村 (LA 11568) 的“村庄”：持久场所的正式时间顺序建模

• DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2020.38
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: American Antiquity
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Barkwill Love, Lori