Rough Cilician Region Archaeological Survey

在国家科学基金会的支持下，理查德·布兰顿博士、尼古拉斯·劳和他的同事们将在土耳其海岸的安提阿地区进行一项为期两年的考古调查。在约公元前139-67年期间，这一地区是罗马帝国的边缘地区，被西里西亚海盗团体控制，他们聚集了大量水手和船只，袭击了海上商业和港口城市。这些团体的这些功绩得到了很好的记录，但对这些社会的内部组织知之甚少。几年来，布兰顿和劳一直在这个西里西亚地区进行初步调查，现在他们将扩大他们的调查范围，使之完全覆盖大约800平方公里的区域。使用中美洲和东半球开发的方法，工作人员将仔细走遍整个地区，记录和绘制考古事件的地图。将收集和分析这两个时期的材料。在此基础上，将有可能重建人口统计和定居模式，并深入了解西里西亚的社会和经济组织。地中海的历史特征反映了广泛的长途海上旅行的重要性，这种旅行移动了商品、文化和人员，并纳入了军事战略和国家建设。越来越多的考古学研究人员认识到社会理论的作用，这些理论在世界系统、区域和地区的尺度上解决相互作用的后果，并正在努力开发区域相互作用如何发生的模型。在罗马时代，该研究区域虽然在环境上处于边缘地位，但从来不是一个主要政体的所在地，其地理位置优越，是其他边缘地区所不具备的，在重要政体边界和地中海主要航道的主要海上商业流动中处于中间地位。因此，它提供了一个很好的环境来研究在半边缘区域发生了什么，并补充了一篇研究核心区域和真正的外围区域之间相互作用的广泛文献。今天的国家和个人参与并受到世界范围的系统的影响，考古学家希望了解这种广泛的互动是如何随着时间的推移而发展的。这项研究应该会提供新的见解。这项研究也很重要，因为它汇集了新世界和旧世界的考古学家，并引入了在美洲被证明非常有效的“经典的”旧世界背景调查和分析技术。该项目将进一步进行智力交流，丰富两个地区的研究。它还将提供许多考古学家感兴趣的数据。

With National Science Foundation support Drs. Richard Blanton, Nicholas Rauh and colleagues will conduct a two year archaeological survey in the Antioch region on the Turkish coast. During the period from ca. 139-67 B.C. this area, which was peripheral to the Roman empire was controlled by Cilician pirate societies which massed large numbers of sailors and ships to raid both seaborne commerce and port cities. These exploits of these groups are well documented but relatively little is known about the internal organization of these societies. For several years Blanton and Raugh have conducted preliminary surveys in this Cilician area and they shall now expand their survey to allow full coverage of an area of approximately 800 square kilometers. Using methods developed both in Middle America and in the Old World, crews will walk carefully over the entire region and note and map archaeological occurrences. Materials from both all time periods will be collected and analyzed. On this basis it will then be possible to reconstruct demography and settlement patterns and gain insight into Cilician social and economic organization. The historical character of the Mediterranean reflects the importance of extensive long-distance sea travel that moved commodities, culture and people and that figured into military strategy and state-building. A growing number of archaeological researchers recognize the utility of social theories that address the consequences of interaction at the scales of world-system, area and region and are working to develop models of how regional interaction occurs. During Roman times the study area while environmentally marginal, and never the site of a major polity, was well situated in a way other marginal regions were not, to intermediate in major sea-borne commercial flows along the boundaries of important polities and along major Mediterranean sea routes. It thus provides an excellent setting to study what happens in semi-peripheral areas and to compliment an extensive literature which examines interactions between core and true peripheral areas. Nations and individuals today participate in, and are affected by, worldwide systems and archaeologists wish to understand how such widespread interactions develop over time. This study should provide new insight. The research is also important because it brings together New World and Old World archaeologists and introduces into a `classical` Old World setting survey and analytic techniques which have proven highly effective in the Americas. The project will further intellectual interchange which will enrich research in both regions. It will also provide data of interest to many archaeologists.