Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Role of Migration in Social Complexity

博士论文改进奖：移民在社会复杂性中的作用

• 批准号: 2003241
• 负责人: Andrew Duff
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2003241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Role

Ms. Katie Richards and Dr. Andrew Duff, of Washington State University, will explore how identity is created, maintained, and expressed in frontier zones as they explore the origins and social organization of a native pre-Hispanic group, referred to today as Fremont, They lived across much of what is today the state of Utah. Archaeologists have studied the Fremont for over a century; however, there is still considerable debate over who the Fremont were and where they came from. This project will address fundamental, big-picture questions about Fremont to help create a new foundational understanding about this group. Located at the northern fringes of the more densely populated North American Southwest, the Fremont region is ideally situated to explore how identity was negotiated and created in prehistoric frontier zones. The academic debate over who the Fremont were has also proved a stumbling block to educators teaching Utah state history. Little information on the Fremont has been published for a public audience. Ms. Richards will work with 4th grade teachers (the year when Utah state history is taught) to create lesson plans that will help educators more effectively teach about Utah’s priceless cultural heritage and prehistory. Ms. Richards and Dr. Duff will use pottery to explore Fremont origins, social organization, and identity in this northern frontier of the North American Southwest. Frontier studies provide a dynamic and powerful way to explore how identity is formed, negotiated, and maintained in regions where disparate traditions meet, and will be used to explore the complex blend of innovation and tradition present in Fremont material culture. Using both high- and low- technology methods, the researchers will use a multi-scalar approach to better understand Fremont. At the broadest scale, the researchers will evaluate how Fremont fits into the larger history of the American Southwest. Using attributes of Fremont and Southwestern pottery, they will explore potential origins of the Fremont ceramic tradition and assess whether painted ceramic technology was brought into the region as a result of migration or was a locally produced emulation. They will then use instrumental neutron activation analysis to chemically characterize Fremont pottery and reconstruct Fremont production and exchange networks at a regional scale. At the finest scale, they will explore how painted ceramics were used within villages across the region. Combined, these analyses will create a robust and more complete understanding of complexity and origins in this frontier zone.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.

华盛顿州立大学的凯蒂·理查兹女士和安德鲁·达夫博士将探索身份是如何在边境地区创建、维护和表达的，他们将探索一个原住民前西班牙裔群体的起源和社会组织，他们生活在今天犹他州的大部分地区。考古学家对弗里蒙特的研究已经超过一个世纪；然而，关于弗里蒙特人是谁以及他们来自哪里，仍然存在相当大的争论。这个项目将解决有关弗里蒙特的基本的、宏观的问题，以帮助建立对这一群体的新的基础性理解。弗里蒙特地区位于人口更稠密的北美西南部的北部边缘，是探索身份是如何在史前边疆地区谈判和创造的理想地点。关于弗里蒙特人是谁的学术辩论也被证明是教授犹他州历史的教育者的绊脚石。关于弗里蒙特号的信息几乎没有发布给公众。理查兹女士将与四年级教师(犹他州历史课在这一年教授)一起制定教案，帮助教育工作者更有效地讲授犹他州无价的文化遗产和史前历史。理查兹女士和达夫博士将用陶器探索弗里蒙特人的起源、社会组织和在北美西南部这个北部边疆的身份。前沿研究提供了一种动态而强大的方式来探索身份是如何在不同传统相遇的地区形成、协商和保持的，并将被用于探索弗里蒙特物质文化中创新和传统的复杂融合。同时使用高科技和低技术方法，研究人员将使用多标量方法来更好地了解弗里蒙特。在最广泛的范围内，研究人员将评估弗里蒙特如何融入美国西南部更广泛的历史。他们将利用弗里蒙特和西南陶器的属性，探索弗里蒙特陶瓷传统的潜在起源，并评估彩绘陶瓷技术是由于移民而引入该地区，还是当地生产的仿制品。然后，他们将使用仪器中子活化分析来对弗里蒙特陶器进行化学表征，并在区域范围内重建弗里蒙特公司的生产和交换网络。在最好的规模下，他们将探索彩绘陶瓷如何在该地区的村庄中使用。综合起来，这些分析将对这一前沿地区的复杂性和起源产生强有力的、更全面的了解。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。