Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A Case Study of Jaketown Social Organization

博士论文改进补助金：以 Jaketown 社会组织为例

• 批准号: 2032257
• 负责人: Tristram Kidder
• 金额: $ 2.7万
• 依托单位: Washington 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: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2032257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Case

Hunter-gatherers are thought to live in small groups with no formal leaders. However, recent research indicates that hunter-gatherers in the past had a variety of forms of leadership and ways of organizing themselves. Within this broader context this project will use the scale and pace of earthen mound building at a site in Mississippi as a proxy for understanding the extent of leadership required to construct labor intensive monuments. The monumental landscape presents an ideal case study for hunter-gatherer socio-political organization, and specifically the relationships between leadership, planning, mound building, and the Native histories that led to the remarkable Poverty Point phenomenon. The Jaketown site is a registered National Historic Place and learning more about the social organization of the extraordinary Poverty Point culture and the monuments they left behind will add to the already significant heritage value of the site. Furthermore, the research team is committed to collaborating with the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes in generating and sharing knowledge. The researchers will excavate three mounds. Using standard archaeological methods augmented with geoarchaeological approaches, they will recover stratigraphic evidence and artifacts, including material for radiocarbon dating, that will allow them to explore how quickly these mounds were built, and if they were built at the same time. If the mounds were built quickly and simultaneously it suggests planning and leadership. Building multiple mounds quickly requires effort and coordination that that surpasses the capability of a household; some person or persons need to mobilize the labor, direct the work, and ensure resources were available to workers.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.

狩猎采集者被认为生活在没有正式领导人的小群体中。然而，最近的研究表明，过去的狩猎采集者有各种各样的领导形式和组织方式。在这个更广泛的背景下，这个项目将使用的规模和速度土墩建设在密西西比作为一个代理的网站，了解建设劳动密集型纪念碑所需的领导程度。这一巨大的景观为狩猎采集者的社会政治组织提供了一个理想的案例研究，特别是领导力、规划、土墩建设和导致显着贫困点现象的原住民历史之间的关系。杰克敦遗址是一个注册的国家历史遗址，更多地了解非凡的贫困点文化的社会组织和他们留下的纪念碑将增加该遗址已经显着的遗产价值。此外，研究小组致力于与契卡索和乔托部落合作，创造和分享知识。研究人员将挖掘三个土丘。使用标准的考古方法与地质考古方法相结合，他们将恢复地层证据和文物，包括放射性碳测年材料，这将使他们能够探索这些土丘的建造速度，以及它们是否同时建造。如果土丘是快速同时建造的，这表明它有计划和领导能力。快速建造多个土丘需要的努力和协调超过了一个家庭的能力;一些人需要动员劳动力，指导工作，并确保资源可供工人使用。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。