Dissertation Research: Refining Inferences of Ceramics Circulation

在论文导师帕特里夏·l·克朗（Patricia L. Crown）博士的指导下，玛丽亚·n·泽德诺将分析310个完整的考古容器，以完成她的博士论文研究。这些材料是从位于亚利桑那州中东部的Chodistaas Pueblo恢复的，提供了一个很好的数据库，因为所有这些材料都是在安全的考古背景下从一个被占用不到50年的遗址中恢复的。在亚利桑那大学（University of Arizona）和史密森学会（Smithsonian Institution）科学家的协助下，泽德诺女士将通过对陶瓷进行微量元素分析，并与该地区已知的粘土来源进行比较，确定粘土来源。通过岩石学和其他分析，她将重建建造陶器的技术，她还将对设计风格进行风格分析。然后在不同的数据集之间进行比较。为了重建贸易和其他互动网络，考古学家经常分析考古遗址的陶瓷，试图确定哪些类型是本地制造的，哪些是从其他地方进口的。此类研究通常基于对设计或制造技术的检查，并包括关于这些变量如何与原产地相关的毫无根据的假设。泽德诺女士将通过分析年代有限、地层学上可靠的乔迪斯达斯普韦布洛样本来评估这些假设。微量元素数据应该为测量风格和技术变量提供基础。这项研究的重要性不仅在于它将揭示美国西南部的文化互动，还在于其更广泛的方法论意义。很多考古学家都会对它感兴趣。

Under the supervision of her thesis advisor, Dr. Patricia L. Crown, Ms. Maria N. Zedeno will analyze 310 whole andrestored archaeological vessels for her doctoral dissertation research. These materials, recovered from Chodistaas Pueblo, located in east central Arizona, provide an excellent data base since all were recovered in secure archaeological context from a site which was occupied for less than fifty years. With assistance from scientists at the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution, Ms. Zedeno will determine clay sources through trace element analysis of ceramics and comparison with known clay sources in the region. Through petrographic and other analyses, she will reconstruct the techniques by which the pottery was constructed, and she will also conduct a stylistic analysis of design styles. Comparisons will then be made among different sets of data. To reconstruct trade and other interaction networks, archaeologists often analyze ceramics at archaeological sites in an attempt to determine which types were made locally and which were imported from elsewhere. Such studies are often based on either examination of design or techniques of manufacture and include unfounded assumptions about how these variables relate to point of origin. Ms. Zedeno will evaluate such assumptions through analysis of the chronologically limited, stratigraphically secure Chodistaas Pueblo sample. Trace element data should provide a basis against which stylistic and technological variables can be measured. This research is important not only for what it will reveal about cultural interaction in the U.S. Southwest but also for its broader methodological significance. It will be of interest to a wide range of archaeologists.