Long Term Development of Economic Landscapes in an Island Context

岛屿经济景观的长期发展

• 批准号: 1732360
• 负责人: Seth Quintus
• 金额: $ 22.63万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1732360&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Long; Term; Development; Economic; Landscapes

Agricultural development is a cumulative process that occurs within dynamic social and ecological contexts. Because agricultural practices modify the environment, the collective impact of development changes the contexts of production for the next generation of farmers. In the tropics, food-production strategies have transformed the environment to create a mosaic of economically important species and microenvironments, which have allowed populations to extend production and innovate new techniques. Such environmental changes reside within wider social relationships, often those that negotiate power. Social relations impact the course of agricultural development by influencing the nature of labor mobilization and the use of landscapes. Scholars have long made a compelling case that change in Polynesian economies was motivated by elite demands for surplus, often taking advantage of favorable but circumscribed ecological conditions, but the evidence to model such processes are lacking in small scale political entities. Archaeological investigations of agricultural development provide information on cultivation strategies used in different places and times, relevant for understanding the role of social and environmental factors. These data have considerable temporal depth to support an examination of the complex interplay of social, economic, and physiological processes over time. Within this broader context, Dr. Seth Quintus and his co-investigators will undertake research to study the development of economic landscapes on Ta'u Island American Samoa. This research will be conducted by collecting data from a field and settlement system recently discovered in the interior uplands of the island. Traditional archaeological excavation and remote sensing methods will allow the team to understand the distribution of human activities, which will aid in identifying social differences within the population. The results of archaeological survey will be compared with an assessment of local variation in soil fertility and landscape evolution that might have affected the decisions of producers. Taxonomic analysis of wood charcoal assemblages will be used to investigate the role of tree-cropping in the production system, an important but not well understood component of Pacific production systems. These methods will provide an integrated examination of the coupled social and environmental processes that have created small island landscapes such as the one found on Ta'u. Socio-ecological dynamics helped to create the environments that we see today, which continue to be the focus of production for island residents. Understanding how these environments were created on isolated islands, which are considered ideal model systems, is fundamental to developing production strategies that can address concerns regarding food security and the promotion of food sovereignty today.

农业发展是一个在动态社会和生态环境中发生的累积过程。由于农业做法改变了环境，发展的集体影响改变了下一代农民的生产环境。在热带地区，粮食生产战略改变了环境，创造了具有重要经济意义的物种和微环境，使人们能够扩大生产和创新新技术。这种环境变化存在于更广泛的社会关系中，通常是那些谈判权力的关系。社会关系通过影响劳动力动员的性质和景观的利用来影响农业发展的进程。长期以来，学者们提出了一个令人信服的理由，即波利尼西亚经济的变化是由精英对盈余的需求所驱动的，通常利用有利但有限的生态条件，但在小规模的政治实体中缺乏模拟这种过程的证据。对农业发展的考古调查提供了不同地方和不同时期使用的耕作策略的信息，有助于理解社会和环境因素的作用。这些数据具有相当的时间深度，以支持随着时间的推移，社会，经济和生理过程的复杂相互作用的检查。在这一更广泛的范围内，Seth Quintus博士及其共同调查员将进行研究，研究美属萨摩亚Ta'u岛经济景观的发展。这项研究将通过收集最近在该岛内陆高地发现的田野和定居点系统的数据进行。传统的考古发掘和遥感方法将使研究小组能够了解人类活动的分布情况，这将有助于确定人口中的社会差异。考古调查的结果将与当地土壤肥力变化和景观演变的评估进行比较，这些变化可能影响生产者的决定。对木炭组合的分类分析将用于调查树木种植在生产系统中的作用，这是太平洋生产系统的一个重要组成部分，但尚未得到很好的了解。这些方法将提供一个综合检查耦合的社会和环境过程，创造了小岛屿景观，如一个在塔乌发现。社会生态动态帮助创造了我们今天看到的环境，这些环境仍然是岛屿居民生产的重点。了解这些环境是如何在被认为是理想模式系统的孤岛上形成的，对于制定能够解决粮食安全问题和促进当今粮食主权的生产战略至关重要。

项目成果

TEMPO AND TRAJECTORY OF THE BUILT LANDSCAPE ON TA‘Ū ISLAND, MANU‘A GROUP, AMERICAN SĀMOA: INTEGRATING EXTENSIVE RADIOCARBON DATING WITH JOINT POSTERIOR MODELING

美国萨摩亚马努阿集团 TA 岛上建筑景观的节奏和轨迹：将广泛的放射性碳测年与联合后验模型相结合

• DOI: 10.1017/rdc.2020.60
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Radiocarbon
• 影响因子: 8.3
• 作者: Quintus, Seth;Huebert, Jennifer;Day, Stephanie;Lincoln, Noa;Yoo, Kyungsoo;Lee, Tiffany;Filimoehala, Darby;Autufuga, Dolly
• 通讯作者: Autufuga, Dolly

Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia

追踪波利尼西亚梯田景观中的新兴空间和社会模式

• DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2021.2018259
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Field Archaeology
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Quintus, Seth;Autufuga, Dolly;Day, Stephanie;Huebert, Jennifer;Lincoln, Noa Kekuewa;Motu, Nolita;Yoo, Kyungsoo
• 通讯作者: Yoo, Kyungsoo

Trace element and Pb isotope analyses highlight decentralized inter-island exchange in American Sāmoa (Polynesia)

微量元素和铅同位素分析强调了美属萨摩亚岛（波利尼西亚）分散的岛间交换

• DOI: 10.1007/s12520-022-01571-w
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Quintus, Seth;Mills, Peter;Konter, Jasper;Day, Stephanie;Gilreath, Darr;Kekuewa Lincoln, Noa;Lundblad, Steven;Vonderhaar, Denys;Yoo, Kyungsoo
• 通讯作者: Yoo, Kyungsoo