Collaborative Research: Adaptative Strategies Under Empire Transitions

人们对帝国是如何发展的了解甚多，但对帝国发展的影响如何以及为什么会在一个政权到下一个政权之间在当地人口中持续存在却知之甚少。要理解帝国扩张对经济、生态和健康的长期影响，就需要协调一致地关注政权之间的过渡时刻，即帝国权力和当地居民都接受、拒绝和/或重组现有的基础设施和资源的时刻。一组研究人员正在采用考古学、骨学和生物地球化学的策略，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全球财富分配、政治权力和健康结果产生重大的遗留影响。该项目为学生提供了重要的培训机会，并增强了对新兴遗产目的地的国际理解，为当地社区提供了大量的经济机会。该项目主要关注两个帝国之间的这些转变。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的影响是可变的。通过比较当地家庭经济活动、饮食和健康指标，该项目采用多学科视角，研究一个帝国统治下资源、基础设施和人口组织的变化如何影响下一个帝国的发展路径，以及土著居民的复原力战略如何应对这些连续的挑战。该研究为研究帝国变迁提供了一个新的理论框架。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.