Doctoral Dissertation Research Award: Coordination Strategies for Joint State Rule

密歇根大学的乔丹·道尔顿将在秘鲁进行新的考古研究，记录印加帝国的扩张如何影响钦查山谷的经济。考古学在回答与国家扩张的长期影响有关的问题方面处于异常有利的地位，因为它研究的时间跨度很长。考古学家能够通过记录最初接触和地方政治重组对后来政治管理和经济变化的级联影响的影响，来解决国家扩张的动态影响。金查谷的案例非常不寻常，因为在大多数情况下，这个扩张的帝国统治着规模较小的少数民族。道尔顿的研究将为钦察族(一个当地民族)如何适应印加帝国的入侵提供新的线索，并将为理解当地人民如何合作和创造新的经济战略增加一个重要的案例研究。在古代帝国和当代扩张主义国家中，一些地方战略被保留，而国家和全球实践被强加。该项目将为来自秘鲁和美国的本科生和研究生提供合作和发展他们在考古学方面的技能和知识的机会。此外，通过外展活动和用西班牙语和英语发表的文章，将与美国和秘鲁的社区和学生分享研究成果。为了记录印加占领期间钦查山谷政治和经济管理的变化，道尔顿将在印加占领前和印加占领期间(公元1470-1534年)占领的主要农业社区钦查山谷的拉斯华卡斯考古遗址挖掘多个房间。道尔顿将曝光住宅、制造和生产区，并丢弃成堆的家居用品，以重建哪些商品和工艺品是在拉斯华卡斯和整个印加帝国制造、储存和使用的。在印加时代，拉斯瓦卡斯的居住者通过铺设新地板来翻新他们的结构，从而能够对随着时间的变化进行细粒度的分析。根据这些叠加楼层的顺序，这项研究将记录当地钦察习俗和拉斯华卡斯外国印加习俗随着时间的变化，回答有关外国势力对当地经济影响的问题。通过分析一系列物品-包括陶瓷盘子、食物残留物、编织工具和农具，道尔顿将评估拉斯华卡斯的居民如何影响印加经济，以及印加如何影响当地经济。

Jordan Dalton, of the University of Michigan, will conduct new archaeological research in Peru, documenting how the expansion of the Inca Empire affected the economy of the Chincha Valley. Archaeology is unusually well positioned to answer questions pertaining to the long-term effects of state expansion, due to the long time-span with which it works. Archaeologists are able to address the dynamic effects of state expansion by documenting the effects of the initial impact of contact and local political re-organization to the cascading effects of later changes to political administration and the economy. The Chincha Valley case (in which a local group was allowed to co-administer a valley with the more powerful Inca intruders) is highly unusual, because in most cases the expansionist empire dominates smaller ethnic minorities. Dalton's research will shed new light on how the Chincha (a local ethnic group) adapted to the intrusion of the Inca Empire and will add an important case study to the understanding of how local populations cooperated and created new economic strategies. In both ancient empires and contemporary cases of expansionist states, some local strategies are retained while national and global practices are imposed. The project will provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, both from Peru and the United States, to collaborate and develop their skills and knowledge in archaeology. Furthermore, research will be shared with communities and students within the United States and Peru through outreach activities and articles published in both Spanish and English.To document the changes in the political and economic administration of the Chincha Valley during Inca occupation, Dalton will excavate multiple rooms at the archaeological site of Las Huacas in the Chincha Valley, a major agricultural community occupied immediately before and during Inca occupation (A.D. 1470-1534). Dalton will expose residences, manufacturing and production areas, and discard piles of household goods in order to reconstruct which goods and crafts were manufactured, stored, and used at Las Huacas and throughout the Inca Empire. During the era of the Inca, the occupants of Las Huacas renovated their structures by laying down new floors, allowing for a fine-grained analysis of change through time. Relying on these sequences of superimposed floors, the research will document changes through time in local Chincha practices and foreign Inca practices at Las Huacas, answering questions about the impact of a foreign power on a local economy. By analyzing an array of items - including ceramic dishes, food remains, weaving instruments and farming tools, Dalton will evaluate how residents of Las Huacas affected the Inca economy as well as how the Inca affected the local economy.