Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Community Input to Architectural Construction

这项博士论文研究调查了劳动力是如何被组织起来生产和维护建筑的。当人们建造建筑物时，他们一起工作，小组成员可能包括朋友、亲戚、邻居或专业人士。考察建筑劳动的组织可以揭示人们如何与他们的社区互动，以及他们如何管理他们的时间和资源。有关建筑生产的信息还可以补充对社会组织、经济和非建筑劳动战略以及场地占用历史的研究。这项研究扩展了传统的建筑考古学研究，特别关注建筑中使用的土材料。土灰泥和砂浆有可能为建筑商提供有关技术和材料知识的重要信息。除了建筑的其他元素外，这项研究还将侧重于土材料，这项研究将建立分析和抽样战略，以指导历史保护规划，产生有助于监测和稳定国家公园管理局(NPS)委托公众保存的不可再生考古记录的遗址条件基线记录，并补充先前进行的建筑分析。对石膏的详细分析还有助于更广泛地讨论环境变异性对文化资源的影响。该研究为缺席的俄克拉荷马州肖尼部落的博士生提供培训，还将为本科生提供建筑文档和实验室设备操作方面的培训。博士生将记录和检查建筑元素(包括墙、屋顶、地板、门道、灰泥和壁炉)，以确定材料使用、施工技术和灰泥配方的模式，在纳瓦霍国家纪念碑的两个悬崖民居。这两个村庄都被占领了不到40年。联合PI和一名学习考古学的本科生助理将记录和拍摄建筑。文件完成后，将收集选定的土建筑材料(如灰泥和砂浆)的小样本，并使用地球化学和岩石学方法相结合的方法进行分析。实验室分析的目标是提炼居住在这些地点的人们所做的技术选择的知识，人们与邻居分享他们的建筑知识和石膏配方的程度，并评估建筑中使用的材料的多样性。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。

This doctoral dissertation research investigates how labor was organized to produce and maintain architecture. When people construct buildings, they work together in groups that may consist of friends, relatives, neighbors, or professionals. Examining the organization of architectural labor can reveal how people interact with their communities and how they manage their time and resources. Information on architectural production can also supplement studies of social organization, economic and non-architectural labor strategies, and site occupation histories. This research expands on traditional archaeological studies of architecture with a special focus on the earthen materials used in construction. Earthen plasters and mortars have the potential to provide significant information about the technological and materials knowledge of builders. In focusing on earthen materials in addition to other elements of architecture, this research will establish analytical and sampling strategies that can guide historic preservation planning, produce a record of site condition baselines useful for monitoring and stabilizing the non-renewable archaeological record held in trust for the public by the National Park Service (NPS), and supplements previously conducted architectural analyses. Detailed analyses of plasters also contribute to broader discussions on the impact of environmental variability on cultural resources. The study provides training for the doctoral student, who is a member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and will also provide training in architectural documentation and operation of laboratory equipment for an undergraduate student.The doctoral student will document and examine architectural elements (including walls, roofs, floors, doorways, plasters, and hearths) to identify patterns in material use, construction techniques, and plaster recipes at two cliff dwellings in Navajo National Monument, on the Navajo Nation. Both villages were occupied for less than forty years. The co-PI and an undergraduate student assistant studying archaeology will document and photograph the architecture. After completion of the documentation, small samples of selected earthen construction materials (such as plasters and mortars) will be collected and analyzed using a combination of geochemical and petrographic methods. The goal of the laboratory analyses is to refine knowledge of the technological choices made by the people who lived at these sites, the extent to which people shared their construction knowledge and plaster recipes with their neighbors, and to evaluate the diversity of materials used in construction.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.