Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Societal Collapse and Migration

博士论文改进奖：社会崩溃与移民

• 批准号: 1923815
• 负责人: Takeshi Inomata
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 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: 2019-08-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923815&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Societal

Jose Raul Ortiz, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, will investigate how Maya highland communities were affected by potential immigration after the abandonment of lowland centers during the 9-10th centuries. Recent research on the Terminal Classic in the Maya area shows that Maya communities were differentially affected by collapse processes and their responses were variable, including cases of disruption and abandonment, short flourishment, and resilience and transformation. Ortiz's research will focus on the detection of migration from a potential receiving end, a theme that has been addressed in other worldwide ancient migration cases but that has been minimally tracked in other Maya sub-regions. Questions about the effects of the Maya collapse, including the impact of lowland population movements, have been less frequently addressed for the highlands. The results of this research will contribute to the growing discussion on how social identity, specifically of the ancient Maya, intersects with technology, and how migrants can be detected in the archaeological record. Ortiz's work seeks to make a positive impact on the indigenous Qeqchi Maya living near the site by providing important culture-historical information from their own cultural past and promoting collaborative participation, re-ownership, and safekeeping of local cultural heritage. The results of the project seek to publicly discuss the myriad ways that Maya communities experienced the Maya collapse by contesting popular and catastrophic beliefs of this social process.Under the direction of Dr. Takeshi Inomata, Mr. Ortiz will conduct archaeological research at Kixpek, Guatemala. This ancient settlement is located at the northern edge of the highlands immediately south of the lowlands region. Funerary pottery found at the site indicates a Late Classic to Early Postclassic occupation (AD 600-1200), showing that the community lived through the Classic Maya collapse. The site of Kixpek on the Chixoy drainage presents an opportunity to examine how a highland community experienced social processes that happened during and after the Terminal Classic. Did migrants relocate among their neighbors at the northern highlands and what evidence of this migration is available at this region? Did highland ceramic technologies persist or change with the potential introduction of new social groups after the Maya collapse? Ortiz will conduct excavations in Group B and presumed habitation areas surrounding the main plaza in order to obtain pottery samples from pre- and post-Maya collapse periods of occupation. Laboratory analysis will include detailed ceramic analysis by stylistic and technological attributes through macroscopic and microscopic techniques for pottery classification. Ortiz will evaluate the continuities and changes in technological systems, specifically in pottery, obsidian, and burial practices at Kixpek, amidst the potential relocation of people after the Terminal Classic period.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.

何塞·劳尔·奥尔蒂斯博士亚利桑那大学的候选人，将调查玛雅高地社区如何受到潜在移民的影响后，放弃低地中心在9- 10世纪。最近对玛雅地区《终极经典》的研究表明，玛雅社区受到崩溃过程的影响各不相同，他们的反应也各不相同，包括破坏和遗弃、短暂的繁荣以及复原力和转型。Ortiz的研究将集中在检测来自潜在接收端的移民，这是一个在世界范围内其他古代移民案例中已经解决的主题，但在其他玛雅次区域很少被跟踪。关于玛雅崩溃的影响的问题，包括低地人口流动的影响，很少涉及高地。这项研究的结果将有助于越来越多的关于社会身份，特别是古玛雅人的社会身份如何与技术相交，以及如何在考古记录中发现移民的讨论。Ortiz的工作旨在通过提供来自他们自己的文化过去的重要文化历史信息，促进合作参与，重新拥有和保护当地文化遗产，对居住在遗址附近的土著Qeqchi Maya产生积极影响。该项目的成果旨在公开讨论玛雅社区经历玛雅崩溃的无数方式，通过质疑这一社会过程的流行和灾难性信念。在猪又武博士的指导下，奥尔蒂斯先生将在危地马拉的基克斯佩克进行考古研究。这个古老的定居点位于高地的北方边缘，紧挨着低地地区的南部。在该遗址发现的陶器表明了古典晚期到后古典早期（公元600-1200年）的占领，表明该社区经历了古典玛雅的崩溃。奇克罗伊河流域的基克斯佩克遗址提供了一个机会，可以考察一个高地社区如何经历终端经典赛期间和之后发生的社会过程。移民是否在北方高地的邻居中重新定居，在这个地区有什么证据表明这种移民？玛雅崩溃后，高地的陶瓷技术是持续存在还是随着新社会群体的引入而改变？Ortiz将在B组和主要广场周围的假定居住区进行挖掘，以获得玛雅崩溃前和占领后时期的陶器样本。实验室分析将包括通过宏观和微观技术对陶器分类的风格和技术属性进行详细的陶瓷分析。Ortiz将评估技术系统的连续性和变化，特别是在Kixpek的陶器，黑曜石和埋葬实践中，在终端经典时期之后人们的潜在搬迁中。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。