Archaeological Excavations at a Creek Indian Town

这笔赠款提供了预期两年中的第一个， 支持. 这使得瓦赛尔科夫博士和他的同事们能够 早期历史悠久的克里克印第安人遗址Fusihatchee， 位于亚拉巴马。 初步研究表明， 丰富和保存完好的网站包含未受干扰的房屋地板 和埋在地下的沙奇坑以及人类的骨骼残骸。 博士 Waselkov和他的团队将跟进他们现在完成的 大规模工程的初步挖掘。 机械化 设备将剥离水平区域的覆盖层， 之后会进行仔细的挖掘 分析将侧重于 发现的动物和植物以及人类 土葬和材料仍然是当地生产和获得 通过贸易。 这项研究的目的是了解克里克 回应了欧洲方面的联系。 当哥伦布发现新大陆时 世界上最大、最高的河流之一， 有组织的部落 1840年， 失去了独立性。 虽然这一结果 相互作用并不奇怪， 克里克和欧洲文化是非常感兴趣的。 后 最初的人口减少和疾病造成的破坏， 克里克文化的繁荣是因为接触 当他们成为一个商业网络的一部分， 比如鹿皮进入欧洲市场，社会的复杂性， 地位和内部分化实际上增加了。 博士 瓦塞尔科夫的挖掘将有助于确认和提供新的 洞察这个过程。 这项研究很重要，因为它提供了新的见解， 先进和落后的社会群体之间的接触所产生的影响 组 在世界上许多欠发达地区， 至今仍在继续，并直接影响着政治， 菲律宾等国。 重要的是要了解如何 这个可以。 Fusihatchee也是一个濒危的网站。 已经 而其所处之地，必有其所居之地。 变成了一个砾石坑。//

This grant provides the first of an expected two years of support. It allows Dr. Waselkov and his colleagues to excavate the early historic Creek Indian site of Fusihatchee which is located in Alabama. Preliminary work shows that this extremely rich and well preserved site contains undisturbed house floors and buried chache pits as well as human skeletal remains. Dr. Waselkov and his team will follow up their now complete preliminary excavations with large scale work. Mechanized equipment will strip overburden off horizontal areas and this will be followed by careful excavation. Analyses will focus on the faunal and floral materials recovered as well as the human burials, and material remains both locally produced and obtained through trade. The goal of this research is to understand how the Creek responded to European contact. When Columbus discovered the New World, the Creek constituted one of the largest and most highly organized tribes in the U.S. Southeast. By 1840 their independence has been lost. While the outcome of this interaction is not surprising, the process of interaction between Creek and European cultures is of great interest. After an initial depopulation and disruption caused by disease, it appears that Creek culture actually flourished as a result of contact. As they became part of a commercial network and supplied products such as deer skins to the European market, social complexity, status and internal differentiation actually increased. Dr. Waselkov's excavation will serve to confirm and provide new insight into this process. This research is important because it provides new insight into the effects of contact between more and less advanced social groups. In many less developed parts of the world this process still continues today and directly affects politics in such countries as the Philippines. It is important to understand how this works. Fusihatchee is also an endangered site. It has been subjected to looting and the and on which it lies will soon become a gravel pit. //