Dissertation Research: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in Yucatan

为了完成她的博士论文研究拉尼女士 亚历山大，在罗伯特·桑特利博士的指导下，将 在该地区进行考古和民族历史研究 Yaxuna，Yucatan，墨西哥 她将专注于十七 公元18世纪，在此期间，当地 这一地区的农村经济日益一体化 西班牙殖民地经济的一部分 通过考试 丰富的文献资源，她将能够跟踪这一点， 过程中的一些细节。 几处遗址的挖掘将使 在当地重建消费模式， 定居点和住房组织。 比较这两 然后，数据体将允许对材料进行说明 经济变化的相关因素。 虽然研究复杂文明发展的考古学家 长期以来，社会一直对这些机制感兴趣， 这些实体扩大，他们的重点一直是核心或 中心地区损害边远地区。 事实上 方法来确定这些地区如何在经济上 没有改变，没有发展。 不存在可靠的技术 对考古数据提出这样的问题。 因为 在Yaxuna地区的文件证据是极好的和最近的 发展并没有掩盖大多数考古遗址，这部分 尤卡坦半岛提供了一个很好的控制环境， 这样的研究。 这项研究的重要性不仅在于它将揭示 墨西哥的历史，也是分析技术， 发展。 这些应该是有用的考古学家在许多 世界各地。 因为亚历山大女士会雇佣并帮助 训练一个墨西哥助理，她会直接 对发展考古基础设施的贡献 墨西哥

To complete her doctoral dissertation research Ms. Rani Alexander, under the direction of Dr. Robert Santley, will conduct archaeological and ethnohistoric research in the region of Yaxuna, Yucatan, Mexico. She will focus on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries A.D., the period during which the local rural economy of this region became increasingly incorporated into the broader Spanish colonial economy. Through examination of abundant documentary resources she will be able to trace this process in some detail. Excavation of several sites will allow on-the-ground reconstruction of patterns of consumption, settlement and houselot organization. Comparison of these two bodies of data will then permit elucidation of the material correlates of economic change. While archaeologists who study the development of complex societies have long been interested in the mechanisms through which such entities expand, their focus has been on core or central areas to the detriment of outlying regions. In fact methodologies to determine how such areas were economically changed have not been developed. Robust techniques do not exist to ask such questions of archaeological data. Because documentary evidence in the Yaxuna region is excellent and recent development has not obscured most archaeological sites, this part of Yucatan provides an excellent controlled context to conduct such research. This research is important not only for the light it will shed on Mexican history but also for the analytic techniques which will be developed. These should be useful to archaeologists in many parts of the world. Because Ms. Alexander will employ and help train a Mexican field assistant, she will make a direct contribution to developing the archaeological infrastructure in Mexico.