REU Site: Northern Chaco Outliers Project in Archaeology

REU 遗址：考古学中的北查科离群项目

• 批准号: 2050402
• 负责人: Susan Ryan
• 金额: $ 27.91万
• 依托单位: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Northern; Chaco; Outliers

This project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. It has broader scientific and societal impacts in addition to integrating undergraduate research and education. This REU Sites award to the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center supports authentic archaeological research for 10 undergraduate students from underserved populations over the course of seven weeks spanning three years (30 total students). Students actively engage in research alongside professional mentors within the framework of a long-term research project, the Northern Chaco Outliers Project. Students receive extensive preparation in STEM-based learning objectives that are necessary for future success within the discipline. This program provides students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to secure future employment within archaeology and to pursue advanced degrees, emerging as the next generation of professionals, Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, educators, and leaders within the sciences. Inferences generated about past human behavior are utilized to create a better understanding of the principles that govern culture change worldwide and to address issues relevant to today’s societies, providing critical information to guide future policy making. The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center initiated the Northern Chaco Outliers Project in 2017 with the goals of addressing important regional questions surrounding the expansion of ancestral communities in the Mesa Verde region, as well as broader anthropological research questions concerning human-environment interactions, the development of inequality/equality, the political role of community centers, and identity formation/dissolution. Although this Site has a regional focus, its results have national and global impacts. By engaging in scientific research focused on broader anthropological questions, REU students advance and share knowledge of the human past and contribute to cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research surrounding human actions in the past, present, and future.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.

该项目部分由社会，行为和经济科学理事会的国家科学基金会本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。它具有更广泛的科学和社会影响，除了整合本科研究和教育。这个REU网站奖乌鸦峡谷考古中心支持真正的考古研究，为10名本科生从服务不足的人口在七个星期的过程中跨越三年（30名学生）。学生们积极参与研究的长期研究项目，北方查科离群项目的框架内的专业导师一起。学生在基于STEM的学习目标中获得广泛的准备，这是该学科未来成功所必需的。该计划为学生提供必要的知识，技能和能力，以确保考古学未来的就业机会，并追求高级学位，成为下一代专业人士，部落历史保护官员，教育工作者和科学领域的领导者。对过去人类行为的推断被用来更好地理解管理全球文化变革的原则，并解决与当今社会相关的问题，为指导未来的政策制定提供关键信息。 乌鸦峡谷考古中心于2017年启动了北方查科离群点项目，其目标是解决围绕梅萨维德地区祖先社区扩张的重要区域问题，以及有关人与环境相互作用的更广泛的人类学研究问题，不平等/平等的发展，社区中心的政治作用，以及身份的形成/解散。虽然该网站有一个区域重点，但其结果具有国家和全球影响。通过从事更广泛的人类学问题的科学研究，REU学生推进和分享人类过去的知识，并有助于围绕过去，现在和未来的人类行为进行跨文化和跨学科的研究。该奖项反映了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。