Dissertation Research: An Integrative Study of Ceramic Exchange During the Illinois Valley Middle Woodland Period

祖布罗 在Ezra Zubrow博士的指导下，Shannon Fie女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她的研究的目标是了解如何区域内交流服务于整合三个史前“林地”人口在伊利诺伊州山谷，并实现这一目标，她将分析从一些考古遗址的陶瓷遗骸。由于陶瓷包含技术和风格标记，有助于科学家确定起源点，因此分析这些数据可以重建贸易路线，并确定相互作用的方向和强度。在此基础上，可以重建一个社会网络。为了实现这一目标，Fie女士将把她的注意力集中在非精英陶瓷上，这些陶瓷用于日常用途，比精细加工的陶瓷更常见。她将建立一个粘土来源的区域数据库，并确定每个存款的化学和矿物成分。然后，她将对考古材料进行岩相学和中子活化分析，以粘土来源和制造来源对碎片进行分组。 菲将考察的这些地点都是霍普韦尔现象的一部分。大约2,000年前，第一个大规模的复杂社会出现在美国中西部。霍普韦尔人建造了巨大而令人印象深刻的土方工程，并广泛地交易起源于北美许多地区的异国商品。 虽然许多仪式中心已被研究，考古学家仍然很少了解霍普韦尔团体是如何组织和互动的地方一级。菲女士将进行的陶瓷研究有望为这个问题提供新的线索。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将增加我们对复杂社会如何产生的理解，并将为美国史前史的一个重要方面提供新的见解。它还将协助培养一名有前途的年轻科学家。

Zubrow Under the direction of Dr. Ezra Zubrow, Ms. Shannon Fie will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. The goal of her research is to understand how intra-regional exchange served to integrate three prehistoric "Woodland" populations in the Illinois Valley and to accomplish this goal she will analyze ceramic remains from a number of archaeological sites. Because ceramics contain both technological and stylistic markers which help scientists to determine point of origin, analysis of such data allow one to reconstruct trade routes and to determine both direction and intensity of interaction. On this basis a social network can be reconstructed. To accomplish this goal, MS Fie will focus her attention on non-elite ceramics which were used for everyday purposes and are more common that their finely worked counterparts. She will establish a regional database of clay sources and determine the chemical and mineralogical composition for each deposit. She will then subject archaeological materials to petrographic and neutron activation analysis to group sherds by both clay source and source of manufacture. The sites which MS Fie will examine all form part of the Hopewell phenomenon. Approximately 2,000 years ago the first large scale complex societies arose in the American midwest. Hopewell peoples constructed large and impressive earthworks, and traded widely in exotic goods which originated in many parts of North America. While many ceremonial centers have been studied, archaeologists still have little understanding of how Hopewell groups were organized and interacted on a local level. The ceramic study which MS Fie will conduct, promises to shed new light on this question. This research is important for several reasons. It will increase our understanding of how complex societies arise and will provide new insight into an important aspect of American prehistory. It also will assist in the training of a promising young scientist.