Doctoral Dissertation Research: Organization of Rural Communities

博士论文研究：农村社区组织

• 批准号: 2146700
• 负责人: Marcello Canuto
• 金额: $ 2.51万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2146700&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Organization; Rural

The goal of this project is to increase understanding of socioeconomic organization in tropical and sparsely populated regions. The research team will undertake research to study the relevance of settlement density in a lowland tropical region. Settlement density -how populations were spaced across the landscape- influences the degrees and nature of social interactions, which may result in diverse lifeways and forms of organization. Archaeology is well placed to provide relevant insight by focusing on the spatial and material components that are relevant to the notion of socioeconomic organization. Previous scholarship on socioeconomic distinctions has focused on class and status. This project provides an alternative approach by defining whether location in the settlement density continuum played a relevant role in socioeconomic organization. It will reassess assumptions of socioeconomic homogeneity and lack of large-scale integration within tropical societies. Results of this project will be incorporated into plans of local sustainable ecological and archaeological focused tourism in the region. Undergraduate students will be trained in archaeological methods.This project will investigate the relationship between settlement density and socioeconomic organization. Specifically, this project will characterize and compare extended household groups in three settlement density classes (urban, peri-urban and rural). How did lifeways and organizing schemes differed across them? Does settlement density correlate with varied forms of socioeconomic organization? Using a battery of techniques including remote sensing sampling, excavation of architecture and middens, material analyses, and sourcing studies, the project will study five material proxies in each sampled group (function of spaces, architectural energetics, specialized production, non-local items, and dietary patterns). If the materials proxies varied, it will be possible to distinguish these units based on location and settlement density likely played a relevant role in socioeconomic organization.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.

该项目的目标是增加对热带和人口稀少地区社会经济组织的了解。该研究小组将开展研究，研究低地热带地区定居点密度的相关性。定居密度-人口在景观中的分布-影响社会互动的程度和性质，这可能导致不同的生活方式和组织形式。考古学通过关注与社会经济组织概念相关的空间和物质组成部分，很好地提供了相关的见解。以前关于社会经济差异的研究主要集中在阶级和地位上。该项目提供了一种替代方法，通过定义是否在解决密度连续的位置发挥了相关的作用，在社会经济组织。它将重新评估热带社会的社会经济同质性和缺乏大规模融合的假设。该项目的成果将纳入该地区当地可持续生态和考古旅游计划。本科生将接受考古学方法的培训。本项目将调查定居点密度与社会经济组织之间的关系。具体而言，该项目将对三类住区密度（城市、城市周边和农村）的大家庭群体进行定性和比较。他们的生活方式和组织计划有何不同？定居点密度与不同形式的社会经济组织相关吗？ 该项目将使用一系列技术，包括遥感采样、建筑和垃圾坑挖掘、材料分析和来源研究，研究每个采样组的五种材料代理（空间功能、建筑能量学、专业生产、非本地项目和饮食模式）。如果材料代理不同，它将有可能区分这些单位的基础上的位置和解决密度可能发挥了相关的作用，在社会经济组织。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。