Doctoral Dissertation Research: Archaeological investigation of foodways and social organization in the Americas

博士论文研究：美洲食道和社会组织的考古调查

• 批准号: 1852998
• 负责人: Jeffrey Blomster
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852998&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Archaeological; investigation

This doctoral dissertation project will use archaeological plant and animal evidence to advance knowledge about how food was utilized, how food related to social organization, and more broadly, how sociopolitical complexity developed in the human past. The project will not only generate detailed data on faunal and botanical remains to advance archaeological theory, but will also provide time depth and comparative data for understanding modern societal challenges related to food and inequality. The project will support and strengthen international scientific collaborations and student training in STEM research. Public and community science outreach and conservation of local historical heritage will also be fostered through community and researcher collaborations. This project builds upon recent calls by scholars to develop a more social approach to the archaeological study of food practices, including consideration of the relationship between people and food in everyday and ritual settings within a social and cultural system. The investigators will address the relationship between food and social organization through a thorough analysis of exceptionally well-preserved faunal and botanical remains of an early village in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico. The archaeological site of Etlatongois is temporally situated at the dawn of social complexity in the Oaxacan region of Mesoamerica, ca. 1000 BC. Zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical analyses will be carried out in one of the largest faunal and floral samples ever excavated for the region, in terms of volume of material pertaining to a single time period. The excellent preservation of the sample will also allow for the study of the comparative morphology of maize to better understand the development of this domesticate.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个博士论文项目将使用考古植物和动物的证据来推进有关食物如何被利用，食物如何与社会组织相关，以及更广泛地说，社会政治复杂性如何在人类过去发展的知识。该项目不仅将产生关于动植物遗骸的详细数据，以推进考古学理论，还将提供时间深度和比较数据，以了解与食物和不平等有关的现代社会挑战。该项目将支持和加强STEM研究的国际科学合作和学生培训。还将通过社区和研究人员的合作，促进公共和社区科学宣传和当地历史遗产的保护。该项目建立在学者们最近的呼吁之上，即开发一种更具社会性的方法来进行饮食习惯的考古研究，包括考虑社会和文化体系中日常和仪式环境中人与食物之间的关系。 研究人员将通过对墨西哥瓦哈卡的米斯特卡阿尔塔早期村庄保存异常完好的动植物遗迹进行彻底分析，来解决食物和社会组织之间的关系。Etlatongois的考古遗址在时间上位于中美洲瓦哈卡地区社会复杂性的黎明。公元前一千年。动物考古学和古民族植物学分析将在该地区迄今为止挖掘出的最大的动物群和植物群样本中进行，就与单一时期有关的材料量而言。对样本的良好保存也将使玉米的比较形态学研究能够更好地了解这种驯化的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。