Dissertation: Core and Periphery Relations in the South Central Andes: The Impact of the Tiwanaku State on the Central Valley, Cochabamba, Bolivia

在Katharina Schreiber博士的指导下，Karen安德森女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她的研究目标是了解早期国家一级的社会如何扩大他们的权力，并将边远地区与行政和政治核心结合起来。要深入了解产生这些实体的过程，使用历史数据是极其困难的，因为缺乏道路系统、发达的书写形式和其他促进快速有效的通信和货物运输的技术。因此，人们不得不依赖考古记录。虽然安第斯地区最著名的是印加帝国，它被西班牙人观察到，后来被西班牙人摧毁，但事实上，这是一系列此类实体中的最后一个。在公元400年至1100年之间，蒂瓦纳库的前身以玻利维亚高原为基地，并将其影响力扩展到太平洋沿海低地和亚马逊河以东的侧翼。考古学家希望了解这些内陆地区是如何融入蒂瓦纳库核心的，迄今为止的研究表明，没有一个单一的模型适用。安德森女士将在肥沃的科恰班巴山谷研究这个问题，该山谷位于东部的中海拔地区。她提出了一系列模型，可以解释边缘和核心之间的关系，这些模型从直接控制到根本没有控制。她还详细说明了每一个预期的考古学相关性。根据之前在山谷中的勘探工作，MS安德森现在将对大约1000平方公里进行全面调查。200平方公里.以确定地点，绘制地图，并收集诊断陶瓷材料。她还将进行小规模的挖掘。这项研究是重要的原因有几个。它将提供洞察导致国家崛起的过程和早期国家采用的整合机制。由于Tiwanaku被许多考古学家视为测试案例，她收集的数据将引起许多研究人员的兴趣。最后，这个项目将有助于培养一个有前途的年轻考古学家。

Under the direction of Dr. Katharina Schreiber, MS Karen Anderson will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. The goal of her research is to understand how early state-level societies extended their power and integrated outlying areas with the administrative and political core. To gain insight into the processes which gave rise to such entities from it is extremely difficult to use historic data because road systems, developed forms of writing and other technologies which facilitate rapid and efficient communication and transportation of goods were lacking. Therefore one is forced to rely on the archaeological record. Although the Andean region is best known for the Inca empire which was observed and later destroyed by the Spanish, this in fact was the last in a series of such entities. Between AD 400 and 1100 AD a Tiwanaku predecessor was based in highland Bolivia and extended its influence into both the Pacific coastal lowlands and the flanks of the Amazon to the East. Archaeologists wish to understand how these hinterland regions were integrated into the Tiwanaku core and research to date suggests that no one single model applies. MS. Anderson will examine this question in the fertile Cochabamba Valley which is located at a mid-altitude level to the East. She has posited a series of models which may explain the relationship between periphery and core and these range from direct control through no control at all. She has also specified the expected archaeological correlates for each. Based on prior exploratory work in the Valley MS Anderson shall now conduct a total survey of ca. 200 sq. km. to locate sites, map them and collect diagnostic ceramic material. She will also conduct small scale excavations.This research is important for several reasons. It will provide insight into the processes which led to the rise of the state and the integrating mechanisms which early states employed. Because Tiwanaku has been treated by many archaeologists as a test case, the data she collects will be a interest to many researchers. Finally this project will assist in training a promising young archaeologist.