The Correlation Between Domestic Status and Social Organization Form

石溪大学的伊丽莎白·斯通博士将与来自芝加哥大学、石溪大学、牛津大学和慕尼黑大学的同事们一起进行考古研究，研究位于伊拉克南部乌尔遗址的家庭生活的连续性程度。在公元前三千年晚期，这座城市从帝国的首都转变为公元前二千年早期的许多小城邦之一。对美索不达米亚社会的解释，深受书面记录的影响，经常把早期的考古记录主要是公共建筑的社会解释为一个自上而下的社会，有些人认为大部分人口相当于牲畜的奴隶。然而，随后的时期以其国内地区而闻名，这些地区产生了私人信件和合同，并证明了更大的人口具有相当大的能动性。该项目旨在恢复国内两个时期的可比数据，以确定当前书面记录的差异是否反映了社会的真实变化，还是遗址形成差异的影响。这项研究将为复杂社会的兴起和随后的衰落背后的因素提供基本的见解。这些资金将用于支持现场第三季也是最后一季的工作。第3区最上面的建筑为一位将军所有，表明有相当大的建设投资。然而，上一层的建筑采用了少量的烧砖，并展示了乌尔早期挖掘中已知的最窄的墙壁和房间宽度。我们的目标是获得一系列建筑、人工、动物和植物的数据，这些数据可以与当代数据进行比较，这些数据可以在不同的时期之间进行比较。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Dr. Elizabeth Stone, of Stony Brook University, along with colleagues from the University of Chicago, Stony Brook University, Oxford University and the University of Munich will undertake archaeological research to study the degree of continuity in domestic life at the site of Ur, located in southern Iraq, as the city was transformed from the imperial capital in the late third millennium to one of many small city states in the early second millennium B.C.E. Interpretations of Mesopotamian society, heavily influenced by the written record, have often interpreted the earlier level where the archaeological record is dominated by public buildings, as a very top down society, with some suggesting that much of the population were comparable to chattle slaves. However, the subsequent period is best known for its domestic areas which have yielded private letters and contracts and testify to considerable agency on the part of the larger population. This project aims to recover comparable data from domestic areas dating to both both periods to determine whether or not the differences in the current written record reflect real changes in society or the effect of differences in site formation. The research will provide basic insight into factors which underlie the rise and often subsequent decline of complex societies.These funds will be used to support the third and last season of work at the site. The uppermost architectural in Area 3 was owned by a general and indicates considerable construction investment. However the architecture in the overlying level incorporates few courses of baked brick and exhibits some of the narrowest walls and room widths known from the earlier excavations at Ur. The goal is to obtain a sequence of architectural, artifactual, faunal and floral data that can be compared with the contemporary data which can be compared between time periods.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.