Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Establishment of Long Term Group Interaction Relationships

博士论文改进补助金：建立长期小组互动关系

• 批准号: 2313480
• 负责人: Richard Burger
• 金额: $ 2.55万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2313480&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Establishment

As areas with an unusually high degree of interaction between peoples participating in different cultures, borderlands have been of interest to scholars of many disciplines. However, most research has focused on situations in which borders are already defined and present, as well as interactions involving at least one state or empire. This research trend leaves several issues poorly understood, including: the influence of already existing forms and contexts of interaction on the development of a border, the role of borderlanders, and the entanglement of social groups through interaction in zones of contact. This project leverages archaeology’s unique access to data on human actions over long periods of time to investigate the fluid creation and deconstruction of borders as scales of social interaction change. By focusing on a pre-state context, this project highlights conceptual tension in the social sciences between what is and is not a border, encouraging reflection on cross-border interactions in the strictly bordered world of today. The results of the project are shared with inhabitants of the nearby modern communities as well as the international academic community, providing the vital data needed to reconsider our understanding of long-term borderland interactions.In this doctoral dissertation project the research team investigates the intersection of social interaction and the formation and deconstruction of borders in in a region in which interaction has persisted for centuries. The boundary persists until the current time. However the sharing of technologies and styles of decoration of material culture, across both regions suggests cross-border interactions must have occurred with some frequency. This project examines recently excavated public architecture, ceramics, and non-local materials to test models of the intersection between the creation and maintenance of borderlands and cross-border interaction. The multi-scalar, multi-disciplinary approach emphasizes the union of archaeological expertise and specialized analysis: the project weaves together stylistic and technological analysis of ceramics and architecture; petrographic and chemical sourcing of ceramics; aDNA and isotopic analysis of camelid remains; radiocarbon dating of organic remains; and chemical and habitat sourcing of other non-local materials to clarify the presence or absence and characteristics of the border as well as its manifestation at a local scale during its first supposed appearance.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.

边疆作为不同文化背景的民族之间互动程度异常高的地区，一直受到许多学科学者的关注。然而，大多数研究都集中在边界已经确定和存在的情况下，以及涉及至少一个国家或帝国的互动。这一研究趋势使人们对一些问题知之甚少，其中包括：现有的互动形式和背景对边界发展的影响，边境居民的作用，以及社会群体通过接触区互动的纠缠。该项目利用考古学对长期人类行为数据的独特访问，研究随着社会互动规模的变化，边界的流动创造和解构。通过关注前国家背景，该项目突出了社会科学中什么是边界，什么不是边界之间的概念紧张关系，鼓励对当今严格边界世界中的跨境互动进行反思。该项目的成果与附近现代社区的居民以及国际学术界分享，为重新思考我们对长期边界互动的理解提供了重要数据。在这个博士论文项目中，研究团队调查了社会互动的交叉点以及在互动持续了几个世纪的地区中边界的形成和解构。边界将持续到当前时间。然而，这两个地区的技术和物质文化装饰风格的共享表明，跨境互动一定发生了一定的频率。该项目研究了最近挖掘的公共建筑，陶瓷和非本地材料，以测试边界的创建和维护以及跨境互动之间的交叉模型。多尺度、多学科方法强调考古学专门知识和专业分析的结合：该项目将陶瓷和建筑的风格和技术分析、陶瓷的岩相学和化学来源、骆驼遗骸的DNA和同位素分析、有机遗骸的放射性碳年代测定结合在一起;和化学品和生境来源的其他非-当地材料，以澄清边界的存在或不存在和特点，以及在第一次假定边界存在期间在当地的表现形式。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。