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察山谷的经济。考古学是非常好的定位，以回答有关国家扩张的长期影响的问题，由于它的工作时间跨度长。考古学家能够通过记录接触和地方政治重组的最初影响对后来政治管理和经济变化的级联效应的影响来解决国家扩张的动态影响。钦查山谷的案例（当地人被允许与更强大的印加入侵者共同管理一个山谷）非常不寻常，因为在大多数情况下，扩张主义帝国统治着较小的少数民族。道尔顿的研究将揭示钦查人（当地民族）如何适应印加帝国的入侵，并将增加一个重要的案例研究，了解当地居民如何合作，创造新的经济战略。在古代帝国和当代扩张主义国家的情况下，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机会，发展他们在考古学方面的技能和知识。此外，还将通过外联活动和用西班牙文和英文发表的文章，与美国和秘鲁境内的社区和学生分享研究成果。为了记录印加占领期间钦查谷政治和经济管理的变化，道尔顿将在钦查谷的拉斯瓦卡斯考古遗址挖掘多个房间，在印加占领之前和占领期间（公元1470-1534年）被占领的一个主要的农业社区。道尔顿将暴露住宅，制造和生产区，并丢弃成堆的家庭用品，以重建哪些商品和工艺品是在拉斯瓦卡斯和整个印加帝国制造，储存和使用的。在印加时代，拉斯华卡斯的居民通过铺设新地板来翻新他们的结构，从而可以对时间的变化进行精细的分析。依靠这些叠加的楼层序列，研究将记录当地Chincha实践和Las Huacas的外国印加实践随时间的变化，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--包括陶瓷餐具、食物遗骸、编织工具和农具，道尔顿将评估拉斯瓦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.