Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A Diachronic Analysis of the Valley of Oaxaca Economy from the Classic through the Postclassic

在T博士的指导下，道格拉斯普莱斯，莱恩法格尔先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。 研究的问题是前西班牙时期墨西哥家庭经济的性质。 他将继续研究位于墨西哥瓦哈卡的瓦哈卡山谷的一系列前西班牙殖民地的经济活动。 这些遗址包括圣胡安Guelavla，一个32.8公顷的遗址，在公元700年和公元950年之间被占领，和Santa Cecilia Jalieza，一个26.6公顷的遗址，在公元250年和公元500年之间被占领。 这些地点很重要，因为它们都位于农业潜力有限的地区，使非农业活动（手工业生产;即，陶器生产，石器生产，编织或布料生产）对遗址居住者的生存至关重要。 为了了解遗址居民如何在经济上支持自己，将在每个遗址使用考古调查和调查期间收集的文物显微镜分析相结合的方法。 将通过使用陶瓷和石岩相学来确定手工艺品生产所用原材料的来源，并在陶瓷方面收集大量生产船只的资料，从而完善这一资料。 目前，一些学者认为，在墨西哥，前西班牙家庭是自给自足的（即家庭生产家庭内生存所需的一切），而其他人则认为，前西班牙经济是专业化的（即家庭故意过度生产有限数量的手工艺品，以换取家庭所需的其他物品，包括食物）。 然而，已知的专门化的例子在数量上相对较少。因此，在公元300年至公元1521年之间，专业化经济体在多大程度上取代了自给自足的家庭，以及家庭如何组织手工业生产与农业生产的关系仍然不得而知。 Fargher先生的研究将提供有关墨西哥前西班牙经济性质的重要新数据。 这项研究也很重要，因为它将提供有关中小型定居点的数据，这些定居点通常被瓦哈卡考古学家忽视，他们致力于研究与后期前西班牙时代有关的问题。最后，随着现代人口在瓦哈卡山谷的扩张，考古遗址被建筑破坏，人们试图养活自己时被抢劫。 因此，Fargher先生的研究将有助于保护墨西哥的文化遗产和保存重要的科学信息。

Under the direction of Dr. T. Douglas Price, Mr. Lane Fargher will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. The research problem is the nature of the household economy in prehispanic Mexico. He will continue work on a study of economic activities at a series of prehispanic settlements located in the Valley of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. These sites include San Juan Guelavla, a 32.8 hectare site that was occupied between AD 700 and AD 950, and Santa Cecilia Jalieza, a 26.6 hectare site that was occupied between AD 250 and AD 500. These sites are important because they are both located in areas that have limited agricultural potential, making non-agricultural activities (handicraft production; i.e., pottery production, stone tool production, basketry, or cloth production) important for the survival of site occupants. In order to understand how site inhabitants supported themselves economically a combination of archaeological survey and microscopic analysis of artifacts collected during survey will be used at each site. This information will be refined through the use of ceramic and lithic petrography to identify the source of raw materials used in handicraft production and, in the case of ceramics, to collect information on mass production of vessels. Currently some scholars argue that prehispanic households, in Mexico, were self-sufficient (i.e. households produced everything needed for survival within the house), while others argue that the prehispanic economy was specialized (i.e. households intentionally overproduced a limited number of handicrafts that were exchanged for other items required by the household, including food). However, known examples of specialization are relatively few in number. As a result, the degree to which specialized economies supplanted self-sufficient households, and how households organized handicraft production in relation to agricultural production between AD 300 and AD 1521 remains unknown. Mr. Fargher's research will provide important new data relating to the nature of the prehispanic economy of Mexico. This research is also important because it will provide data on small and medium sized settlements which have generally been ignored by Oaxacan archaeologists working on issues related to the later prehispanic era. Finally, as modern population expands in the Valley of Oaxaca, archaeological sites are destroyed by construction and looted as people attempt to support themselves. Therefore, Mr. Fargher's research will help preserve the cultural heritage of Mexico and save important scientific information.