Mayan Archaeological Research

这个项目将允许鲍尔博士和他的同事们继续 他们的国家科学基金会支持考古研究。 该团队将 在一系列玛雅遗址进行额外的挖掘 位于大致三角形的谷底， 位于伯利兹的莫潘河和马卡尔河下游。 他们将 集中力量在两个主要的玛雅遗址，布埃纳维斯塔德尔卡约， 和卡哈尔佩奇和进行补充挖掘，在几个 其他地点。 与过去的工作一样，除了测试战壕外， 他们会打开大的双相曝光，这将允许 解释这些区域的功能以及它们如何 融入了一个更大的玛雅社区 考古证据表明，玛雅遗址 这是一个非常大的问题， 他们 玛雅社会不能在小范围内被理解 需要进行大规模的区域工作。 的 鲍尔博士发现的考古学情况是独一无二的 因为莫潘地区包括许多遗址， 小的，只有有限的数量， 《易经》中的“一”，是指一段时间内的经典。 里面有未受干扰的遗骸 通过大规模 鲍尔博士应该能够发现 不仅是每一个如何工作，而且是它们如何相互作用。 鲍尔医生 改编了城市人类学的模型， 城市的运作是为了指导他的工作。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。 因为 文化的复杂性，考古学家长期以来一直 对玛雅社会感兴趣，它是如何产生的，运作的， 拒绝了。 这项研究应该提供更多的见解， 以下问题 其次，玛雅人成功地适应了 低地热带环境。 这样的地区要稀疏得多 比史前时代的人口还要多 鲍尔博士 研究应提供有关组织的有用信息， 古代玛雅人使用的技术。 希望这样的数据可以 在美国中部以及其他地区得到了很好的利用。 世界

This project will permit Dr. Ball and his colleagues to continue their NSF supported archaeological research. The team will undertake additional excavation at a series of Mayan sites located in the roughly triangular valley floor occupied by the lower reaches of the Mopan and Macal rivers in Belize. They will focus their efforts on two major Mayan sites, Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech and conduct supplemental excavations in several other locations. As in past work, in addition to test trenches they will open large horizonal exposures and this will allow interpretation of the functions these areas served and how they were integrated into a larger Mayan community. Archaeological evidence has shown both that Mayan sites are extremely large and that extensive interaction took place among them. Mayan society can not be understood on a small scale site-by-site basis; large scale regional work is necessary. The archaeological situation that Dr. Ball has discovered is unique because the Mopan region includes a number of sites, both large and small, which are covered by only a limited amount of overburden, which date to a single period of time - the Classic - and which contain undisturbed remains. Through large scale excavation at several sites Dr. Ball should be able to discover not only how each worked but also how they interacted. Dr. Ball has adapted models from urban anthropology which describe how cities function in order to guide his work. This research is important for several reasons. Because of the complexity of its culture archaeologists have long been interested in Mayan society, how it arose, functioned and then declined. This research should provide additional insight into the question. Secondly, the Mayans successfully adapted to a lowland tropical environment. Such areas are much more sparsely populated today than they were in prehistoric times. Dr. Ball's research should provide useful information on the organizational techniques ancient Mayans employed. Hopefully such data can be put to good use in Middle America as well as other parts of the world.