DOCTORAL DISSERTATION IMPROVEMENT GRANT: IDENTITY, RITUAL, AND EXCHANGE ALONG THE LOWER RIO PUERCO DRAINAGE NEW MEXICO

在Keith Kintigh博士的指导下，Suzanne Eckert女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将分析从两个考古遗址--蜂鸟普韦布洛和位于新墨西哥州里约热内卢普尔科下水道的陶丘--中发现的大型陶瓷系列。这些大型的多房间遗址是该地区史前晚期的典型遗址，可以追溯到大约公元1150到1400年。在西南部，在西班牙接触之前的几个世纪里，人口从多个广泛分散的小地点迁移到数量较少的较大实体。这必然需要发展将以前不同的社会群体结合在一起的社会机制。除了这种本地聚集性，以早期历史西南群体为特征的长距离迁徙也发生在史前时代，证据表明，来自当地以外的人也生活在蜂鸟普韦布洛遗址和陶丘遗址。埃克特女士希望了解融合机制是如何发展起来的，在多大程度上保留了独特的社会身份，以及里约热内卢普尔科地区以外的联系的程度和性质。她还将研究这些因素是如何随着时间的推移而变化的。为了解决这些问题，她将专注于在这两个地点出土的大型、控制良好的陶瓷材料。因为它们反映了社会互动的不同方面，她将：1.分析陶器设计和公开的风格属性；2.检查生产陶器的技术，如膏体操纵；3.使用岩相学分析来识别和确定原材料的来源位置，以确定特定的陶器类型是进口的还是本地制造的；4.重建器皿大小，以提供对功能的洞察。埃克特女士开发了一个模型，通过这些变量的相互作用，她可以研究保留的种族和贸易等问题，以及仪式盛宴的潜在重要性。这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将增加对社会群体形成的复杂互动的理解，以及这些互动是如何随着时间的推移而发展的。它将提供许多考古学家感兴趣的关于西南部一个相对鲜为人知的地区的重要数据，还将有助于培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Ms Suzanne Eckert will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will analyze large series of ceramics recovered from two archaeological sites, Hummingbird Pueblo and Pottery Mound located in the lower Rio Puerco drainage of New Mexico. These large multi-room sites are typical of the late prehistoric period of the region and date to approximately 1150 to 1400 AD. Within the Southwest the centuries immediately before Spanish contact are characterized by population movements from multiple widely dispersed small sites into a more limited number of larger entities. This of necessity required the development of social mechanisms which integrated previously distinct social groups. In addition to such local aggregation, long distance migration which characterized early historic Southwest groups also occurred in prehistoric times and evidence indicates that people from well outside the local region also lived at both the Hummingbird Pueblo and Pottery Mound sites. Ms Eckert wishes to understand how integrating mechanisms developed, the extent to which distinctive social identities were retained and the degree and nature of ties beyond the local Rio Puerco region. She will also examine how these factors changed over timeTo address these questions, she will focus on the large well controlled ceramic material excavated at both sites. Because they reflect different aspects of social interaction she will: 1. analyze pottery designs and overt stylistic attributes; 2. examine the technology, such as paste manipulation, by which pottery is produced; 3. use petrographic analysis to identify and determine source location of raw materials to determine whether specific pottery types were imported or locally made; 4. reconstruct vessel size to provide insight into function. Ms Eckert has developed a model which, through the interplay of these variables, will allow her to examine such issues as retained ethnicity and trade and the potential importance of ritual feasting.This research is important for several reasons. It will increase understanding of the complex interactions which characterize social group formation and how these develop over time. It will provide important data of interest to many archaeologists about a relatively poorly known region of the Southwest and will also contribute to training a promising young scientist.