Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Emergence of Settlement Patterns

博士论文改进奖：结算模式的出现

• 批准号: 2036277
• 负责人: Randall McGuire
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 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: 2020-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2036277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Emergence

La Playa is an important archaeological site where archaeologists have found hundreds of artifacts and features from over millenia of human occupation. It features an extensive canal system, hundreds of burials, agricultural fields, subterranean ovens called hornos, production areas for shell jewelry, and many other archaeological components. During occupation people became more sedentary as they developed agriculture and canal systems. In a following period, pottery appeared, and the importance of agriculture increased. Archaeologists do not fully understand the cause and nature of this transition, which will be researched by this project. This transnational research will build on international cooperation between archaeologists. Investigators will address two research questions, one about site formation processes and another about how settlement patterns changed. How has erosion impacted the site? How did domestic settlement patterns, environmental modifications, and other uses of space change? These questions are answerable through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis of features and artifacts, modelling erosion processes, and the remote sensing of large-scale agricultural features. Archaeologists have conducted research at the site for over 20 years. These investigations have produced a large sample of data, which has not yet been analyzed in GIS. This research will examine changes in the cultural landscape through a comprehensive spatial analysis of the features and artifacts recorded and analyzed to date in addition to using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to map the site topography and a magnetometer to search for additional buried pithouses, canals, and other features.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.

拉普拉亚是一个重要的考古遗址，考古学家在那里发现了数百件人类占领数千年的文物和特征。它的特点是广泛的运河系统，数百个墓地，农田，被称为Hornos的地下烤炉，贝壳珠宝生产区，以及许多其他考古部件。在占领期间，随着农业和运河系统的发展，人们变得更加久坐不动。在接下来的一段时间里，陶器出现了，农业的重要性增加了。考古学家并不完全了解这种转变的原因和性质，这将由这个项目来研究。这项跨国研究将建立在考古学家之间的国际合作基础上。调查人员将解决两个研究问题，一个是关于场地形成过程的，另一个是关于聚落模式如何变化的。侵蚀对遗址有何影响？国内的居住模式、环境改造和空间的其他用途是如何改变的？这些问题可以通过地理信息系统(GIS)对地物和人工制品的分析、对侵蚀过程的模拟以及对大规模农业特征的遥感来回答。考古学家在该遗址进行了20多年的研究。这些调查产生了大量数据样本，这些数据尚未在地理信息系统中进行分析。这项研究将通过对迄今记录和分析的特征和文物的全面空间分析来检验文化景观的变化，此外，还将使用无人驾驶飞行器绘制遗址地形图，并使用磁强计寻找更多的埋在地下的壁炉、运河和其他特征。该奖项反映了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。