Collaborative Research: Adaptative Strategies Under Empire Transitions

人们对帝国的发展有很多了解，但对帝国发展的影响如何以及为什么在地方人口中从一个政权持续到下一个政权却知之甚少。要理解帝国扩张对经济、生态和健康的长期影响，就需要一致关注政权之间的过渡时刻，即帝国权力和当地人口都接受、拒绝和/或重组现有基础设施和资源的时刻。一组研究人员正在采用考古学，骨骼学和生物化学的策略研究帝国政权之间的过渡如何塑造家庭经济，饮食和健康的长期轨迹，以及它们如何继续对财富，政治权力和健康结果的全球分配产生重大影响。该项目为学生提供了重要的培训机会，并加强了国际社会对一个新兴遗产目的地的了解，为当地社区提供了大量的经济机会。该项目的重点是跨越两个帝国的这些过渡。这种情况为研究这些过程提供了一个极好的背景，因为帝国对当地社区产生了不同的影响。通过比较家庭经济活动，饮食和健康的指标，该项目采用多学科的视角来研究资源，基础设施和人口的组织变化如何在一个帝国下塑造下一个发展的道路，以及土著的韧性战略如何应对这些连续的挑战。 该研究为研究帝国转型提供了一个新的理论框架。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Much is understood about how empires grow, but far less is known about how and why the effects of their growth persist among local populations from one regime to the next. Understanding the long-term economic, ecological, and health impacts of imperial expansions requires concerted attention to moments of transition between regimes, when both imperial powers and local populations adopt, reject, and/or reorganize existing infrastructure and resources. A team of researchers are employing strategies from archaeology, osteology, and biogeochemistry study how transitions between imperial regimes shape long-term trajectories in household economies, diet, and health and how they continue to have substantial legacy effects on the global distribution of wealth, political power, and health outcomes. The project provides critical training opportunities for students and enhances international understanding of an emerging heritage destination that provides substantial economic opportunities to local communities. The project focuses on these transitions across two empires. The situation offers an excellent context for studying these processes because the empires had variable effects on local communities. By comparing indicators of household economic activity, diet, and health at sites, the project employs multidisciplinary perspectives to examine how changes in the organization of resources, infrastructure, and populations under one empire shaped pathways of development under the next and how Indigenous strategies of resilience responded to these successive challenges. The research contributes to a new theoretical framework for studying imperial transitions.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.