Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Community Input to Architectural Construction

这篇博士论文研究了劳动力是如何组织起来生产和维护建筑的。当人们建造建筑物时，他们在可能由朋友、亲戚、邻居或专业人士组成的小组中一起工作。研究建筑劳动的组织可以揭示人们如何与他们的社区互动，以及他们如何管理自己的时间和资源。关于建筑生产的信息也可以补充社会组织、经济和非建筑劳动力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。泥灰泥和砂浆有可能提供有关建筑商的技术和材料知识的重要信息。在专注于土材料除了建筑的其他元素，这项研究将建立分析和采样策略，可以指导历史保护规划，产生一个记录的网站条件基线有用的监测和稳定的不可再生的考古记录为公众保管的信任由国家公园服务（NPR），并补充以前进行的建筑分析。 对石膏的详细分析也有助于更广泛地讨论环境变化对文化资源的影响。该研究为博士生提供了培训，他是俄克拉荷马州缺席肖尼部落的成员，还将为本科生提供建筑文件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（包括墙壁、屋顶、地板、门道、灰泥和壁炉），以确定材料使用、施工技术、和石膏配方在两个悬崖上的纳瓦霍民族纳瓦霍国家纪念碑住所，在纳瓦霍民族。这两个村庄被占领不到40年。合作PI和一名学习考古学的本科生助理将记录和拍摄建筑。完成文件编制后，将收集选定的土制建筑材料（如石膏和砂浆）的小样本，并使用地球化学和岩相学方法相结合进行分析。实验室分析的目标是完善居住在这些地点的人们所做的技术选择的知识，人们与邻居分享建筑知识和石膏配方的程度，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估来支持。影响审查标准。

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.