Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community and Commodity in the Pueblo III World: Exchange and Integration in the Yellow Jacket Community, A.D.1150-1300

在Michelle Hegmon博士的指导下，Jannette Mobley-Tanaka女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。使用陶瓷分析，她将重建史前美国西南部普韦布洛社区的社会组织。对群落相互作用的分析对于考古学家理解公元1300年左右梅萨维德地区(科罗拉多州西南部)的遗弃至关重要。社区--景观上的重要地方--世世代代存在，即使个人和家庭频繁地转移住所，因此这些社区远远不止是个人的群体。随着时间的推移，社区也变得更大、更密集，最终控制了对农田的访问，并充当了防御和冲突的单位。这幅图虽然引人入胜，但几乎完全基于对社区之间相互作用的分析，而不是社区内的社会动态。Mobley-Tanaka的研究将填补这一空白，利用科罗拉多州西南部大型黄夹克社区的数据来分析社区内的互动。考古学家很少能够进行如此详细的分析，但在这种情况下，他们之所以能够进行这样的分析，是因为(1)在黄夹克进行了多年的研究；(2)明显与个别住宅有关的沉积；(3)在该遗址发现了三个制陶窑。这些情况将使Mobley-Tanaka能够确定家庭从哪里获得其国内商品--可用于追踪社区内消费和交换模式的信息。NSF基金将支持有关陶器生产和销售的分析。岩相学分析将有助于确定陶器是在哪里制造的，从而确定它是如何在社区中分布的。这些数据可以回答关于社区内家庭间互动的性质的问题：家庭是相对独立的还是强烈相互依赖的？有没有各种各样的家庭互动网络？关于社区内动态的结果将与对社区间相互作用的现有理解结合起来，以阐明社区在放弃梅萨维德地区方面的作用，并更好地了解过去社区的性质。他们还将增加对美国史前一个重要方面的了解，并帮助培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

Under the direction of Dr. Michelle Hegmon, Ms Jannette Mobley-Tanaka will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. Using ceramic analysis she will reconstruct social organization in a prehistoric southwest USA Pueblo community. Analysis of community interaction has been critical to archaeologists' understanding of the abandonment of the Mesa Verde region (southwest Colorado) around AD 1300. Communities - important places on the landscape - persisted for generations, even as individuals and households shifted residences frequently, thus these communities were much more than groups of individuals. Communities also became larger and more densely packed over time, and eventually controlled access to agricultural lands and served as units of defense and conflict. This picture, while fascinating, is based almost exclusively on analyses of the interaction among communities, rather than the social dynamics within communities. Mobley-Tanaka's research will fill this gap, utilizing data from the large Yellow Jacket community in southwest Colorado to analyze intra-community interaction. Archaeologists rarely are able to undertake such detailed analyses, but they are possible in this case because of (1) many years of research at Yellow Jacket; (2) deposits that are clearly associated with individual residences; (3) the identification of three pottery-making kilns at the site. These circumstances will allow Mobley-Tanaka to determine where households obtained their domestic goods - information that can be used to trace patterns of consumption and exchange at the intra-community level. NSF funds will support analyses concerning the production and distribution of pottery. Petrographic analysis will allow identification of where the pottery was made and thus how it was distributed across the community. These data can answer questions about the nature of inter-household interaction within the community: Were households relatively independent or strongly interdependent? Were there various networks of interacting households? Results regarding intra-community dynamics will be combined with extant understandings of inter-community interaction to illuminate the role of communities in the abandonment of the Mesa Verde region and to better understand the nature of community in the past. They will also increase understanding of an important aspect of US prehistory and assist in training a promising young scientist.