Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Relationship Between Mortuary Practice and Social Organization

博士论文改进奖：太平间实践与社会组织的关系

• 批准号: 1650316
• 负责人: Lori Wright
• 金额: $ 2.69万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 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: 2016-12-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1650316&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Relationship

Under the direction of Dr. Lori Wright, Kristin Hoffmeister will undertake research to investigate the emergence and consolidation of sociopolitical power by examining health, diet, and mobility patterns in groups undergoing significant sociopolitical transformations. The genesis of sociopolitical stratification is a global phenomenon that archaeological inquiry is uniquely positioned to address by examining the development of inequality and the subsequent social and political ramifications over long periods of time. This project will examine the key themes of migration, health, and differential access to resources in order to investigate how rising elites gain and control sociopolitical power. Understanding these complicated processes and how social complexity, identities, and roles are negotiated, legitimized, and maintained over time has broad reaching implications.This research will examine the development of sociopolitical stratification by examining human skeletal remains to assess patterns of mobility, diet, and health during the development of sociopolitical stratification. This project will be conducted on Preclassic period (1000-250 AD) Maya skeletal remains from Cuello and Colha, two sites in northern Belize with large Preclassic skeletal assemblages. The Preclassic period is characterized by broad shifts in mortuary behavior that were concurrent with other significant changes in architecture, site organization, social structure, and material culture throughout the Maya area that relate to the emergence of complex, stratified society. While the development of social hierarchy has been linked to the appearance of the complex mortuary behavior observed at Cuello and Colha, the relationship of these burials to emerging social and political stratification remains unclear. The proposed research will use archaeological data in conjunction with data on diet, geographic origins, and dental health to investigate these broad sociopolitical changes among the Preclassic Maya. Specifically, this study will employ stable carbon (ä13C), oxygen (ä18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes to assess diet and mobility patterns. By analyzing Preclassic mortuary behavior, this project will examine how social complexity, social inequality, and identity are generated, legitimized, and maintained through the political manipulation of the dead. This project will generate novel archaeological and geochemical data about health, diet, and mobility among the Maya. It will also provide research and mentorship

在洛里赖特博士的指导下，克里斯汀·霍夫迈斯特将通过研究经历重大社会政治变革的群体的健康、饮食和流动模式，研究社会政治权力的出现和巩固。社会政治分层的起源是一个全球性的现象，考古学研究是唯一定位，以解决通过检查不平等的发展和随后的社会和政治影响，在很长一段时间。该项目将研究移民、健康和资源获取差异等关键主题，以调查崛起的精英如何获得和控制社会政治权力。了解这些复杂的过程，以及社会的复杂性，身份和角色是如何谈判，合法化，并保持随着时间的推移具有广泛的深远implications.This研究将探讨社会政治分层的发展，通过检查人类骨骼仍然评估的流动性，饮食和健康的模式，在社会政治分层的发展。该项目将在前古典时期（公元1000-250年）的玛雅人骨骼遗骸上进行，这两个遗址位于北方伯利兹，具有大型前古典骨骼组合。前古典时期的特点是殡葬行为的广泛转变，与整个玛雅地区的建筑，场地组织，社会结构和物质文化的其他重大变化同时发生，这些变化与复杂的分层社会的出现有关。虽然社会等级的发展与在Cuello和Colha观察到的复杂丧葬行为的出现有关，但这些墓葬与新兴的社会和政治分层的关系仍然不清楚。拟议中的研究将使用考古数据结合饮食，地理起源和牙齿健康的数据来调查前古典玛雅人之间的这些广泛的社会政治变化。具体来说，这项研究将使用稳定的碳（13 C），氧（18 O）和锶（87 Sr/86 Sr）同位素来评估饮食和移动模式。通过分析前古典时期的丧葬行为，这个项目将研究社会复杂性，社会不平等和身份是如何通过对死者的政治操纵产生，合法化和维持的。该项目将产生关于玛雅人健康、饮食和流动性的新的考古和地球化学数据。它还将提供研究和指导