Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Continuity and Change in Household Life at Classic Period Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico

在Wyllys Andrews V的监督下，Aline Magnoni将分析在墨西哥尤卡坦州Chunchucmil的古玛雅遗址收集的考古数据。 公元400-700年，春丘密尔达到了它的最大程度，当时一个由纪念性建筑组成的密集定居点，被边界墙包围的住宅群，以及在拥挤的城市环境中促进交通的街道，延伸了大约1000平方公里。25平方公里。 这个城市中心成为玛雅地区最大的城市之一，并在几个世纪内成为商业和再分配中心。 在世纪，可能是因为贸易路线的变化，人口开始减少，在接下来的两个世纪里，占领是非常有限的，并导致在该网站的定居模式急剧修改。 本研究以家庭成员参与生殖、生产、分配、传递等活动的空间--“宅屋”为分析单位。 尽管在人种志记录中，家庭的规模、形式和功能各不相同，但它们在世界各地过去和现在的社会中普遍存在，使它们成为跨文化阐释经济和社会进程的有力分析工具。 由于家庭是为满足其成员的需要而采取的适应性家庭战略的结果，因此它们是更大社区的可衡量的社会经济单位。 在春丘密尔，家庭群体随着时间的推移被纳入了相当不同的城市环境，这种历时性的研究将描述春丘密尔在古典时期家庭生活的演变（公元300-1000年），通过使用几个互补的证据，即建筑，人工和土壤化学的空间格局，以及在他们的同期解决和建成环境的房屋小屋的整合。 由于家庭单元是社会的基本单元，本研究试图评估随着时间的推移在家庭和场地层面发生的变化，因为家庭层面的建筑布置和空间利用发生了重大变化，以及住区的变化规模、密度和配置发生在古典时期。最后，从这些调查中获得的知识已经并将继续与居住在考古遗址周围的当地尤卡坦玛雅社区分享。 多年来，向成年人和学童提供了该遗址的图尔斯参观，特别是挖掘出的住宅群，并将继续提供这种参观。 将制作有关这项研究的海报和报告，并在周围社区分发。介绍这一研究的前几部分的一些海报、报告和录像已经发给了那些村庄的当局和学校。 还将通过在年度考古学和人类学会议上介绍和在学术期刊上发表的方式，与科学界分享这一调查结果。 目前正在建立一个网站，介绍这项研究的结果以及春丘米尔其他研究人员进行的调查。 此外，来自不同大学（美国，欧洲和墨西哥）的本科生在春丘米尔接受了考古实地方法和研究的几个实地季节的培训。

Under the supervision of Wyllys Andrews V, Aline Magnoni will analyze archaeological data collected at the ancient Maya site of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico. Chunchucmil reached its maximum extent from A.D. 400-700, when a dense settlement of monumental architecture, residential groups enclosed by boundary walls, and streets facilitating traffic in the crowded urban environment extended over an area of ca. 25 km2. This urban center became one of the largest cities in the Maya region and functioned as a commercial and redistribution center for a few centuries. During the 8th century, probably because of changes in trade routes, depopulation began at Chunchucmil and in the following two centuries occupation was extremely limited and resulted in a drastic modification of the settlement patterns at the site. This research takes as the unit of analysis the houselot-the space where household members participated in activities related to reproduction, production, distribution and transmission. Despite the fact that households vary in size, form and function in the ethnographic record, their ubiquitousness in past and present societies across the world renders them a powerful analytical tool for the cross-cultural elucidation of economic and social processes. Since households are the result of adaptive domestic strategies to meet the needs of its members, they are measurable socioeconomic units of the larger community. At Chunchucmil domestic groups were incorporated in considerably different urban contexts through time and this diachronic study will characterize the evolution of Chunchucmil's domestic life during the Classic period (A.D. 300-1000), by using several complimentary lines of evidence, namely the architectural, artifactual and soil chemical spatial patterning in houselots as well as the integration of the houselots in their contemporaneous settlement and built environment. Since domestic units are the basic units of society, this study attempts to evaluate changes occurring at the household as well as site level through time, as major modifications in the architectural arrangement and the use of space at the domestic level, and transformations of the settlement size, density, and configuration took place during the Classic period. Finally, knowledge obtained from these investigations has been and will continue to be shared with the local Yucatec Maya communities that live around the archaeological site. Tours of the site and specifically of the excavated residential groups have been provided to adults and school children over the years and will continue to be offered. Posters and reports featuring this research will be made and distributed among the surrounding communities. Some posters, reports and a video, presenting earlier portions of this research, have already been given to the villages' authorities and schools. The results of this investigation will also be shared with the scientific community through presentations at annual archaeological and anthropological meetings and publication in academic journals. The creation of a website featuring the results of this research as well as investigations conducted by other researchers at Chunchucmil is currently underway. Moreover, undergraduate students from a variety of universities (US, Europe, and Mexico) have been trained over several field seasons at Chunchucmil in archaeological field methods and research.