Doctoral Dissertation Research: Canoncillo (JE-205) Mapping Project in Peru: Form, Function, and Meaning

在汤姆·迪勒海博士的指导下，约翰·华纳将承担一项考古项目，重点是绘制地图、收集地表资料，并在卡农西略遗址进行有限的挖掘，为了帮助他的研究生培训和完成他的博士学位，Canoncillo（也被称为Je-205）位于秘鲁Jequetepeque山谷内恶劣且不断变化的沙漠北部海岸，是一个复杂的地点，数千年来，许多文化群体断断续续地居住在这里。虽然迄今为止在Je-205进行的考古工作很少，但已知该遗址被密集占用，密集灌溉，有时在空间上组织为城市结构。沃纳先生的工作将侧重于了解该地区城市和非城市地区景观和建筑空间的社会、政治和经济利用。这项研究将对考古学对前工业化社会城市化替代路线的理解产生更广泛的影响，不仅在秘鲁北部海岸，而且在大安第斯地区和其他地区。在地方层面，该项目将确定具体的环境、政治、社会和经济因素，这些因素塑造了Canoncillo的长期发展轨迹、周期性的废弃、再占用和空间改造。从区域上看，Je-205的出现过程可以与附近地区公布的结果进行比较，以确定城市化的泛区域趋势，并解释外部征服在北海岸的空间、社会、政治和经济重组中可能发挥的作用。在尽可能广泛的层面上，拟议在Canoncillo开展的工作的结果将提供一个重要的信息比较数据库，随后可用于解释城市化中的跨文化趋势。该项目具有特别的学术价值，因为它将推进人类学研究，研究在工业化前城市景观（包括城市中心及其支持腹地）的整体中，建筑形式和功能的模式变化如何反映政治集中化、城乡关系、制度化农业生产、区域内经济结构以及征服和帝国合并等方面的更广泛变化。此外，这项研究将对城市权力关系的考古分析做出重大贡献，特别是在高度城市化景观中帝国征服和当地抵抗的空间后果方面。最终，在Canoncillo的工作将提供对拉丁美洲组织原则更详细的长期理解，并使我们更好地了解当今拉丁美洲众多城市配置背后的历史先例，以及农村和城市人口如何适应其环境的变化，如荒漠化和厄尔尼诺事件——这两个问题都是杰克特佩克山谷的现代居民继续面临的问题。

Under the supervision of Dr. Tom Dillehay, John Warner will undertake an archaeological project that emphasizes mapping, surface collection, and limited excavation at the site of Canoncillo, Peru for the purpose of assisting in his graduate student training and completing his Ph.D. Canoncillo (also known as Je-205) is located on the harsh and ever-changing desert north coast of Peru within the Jequetepeque Valley and is a complex site that was inhabited intermittently by numerous culture groups for thousands of years. While very little archaeological work has been conducted at Je-205 to date, the site is known to have been densely occupied, intensively irrigated, and, at times, spatially organized in an urban configuration. Mr. Warner's work will focus on understanding the social, political, and economic utilization of the landscape and architectural space within both the urban and non-urban areas of this region.This research will have a broader impact on archaeological understanding of alternate routes to urbanization in preindustrial societies not only on the north coast of Peru, but in the greater Andean region and beyond. At the local level, this project will identify specific environmental, political, social, and economic factors that shaped Canoncillo's long-term trajectory of development, periodic abandonment, reoccupation, and spatial transformation. Regionally, the processes responsible for Je-205's emergence can be compared to published results found at nearby sites in an effort to identify pan-regional trends in urbanization and to interpret the role that external conquest may have played in the spatial, social, political, and economic reorganization of the north coast. On the broadest level possible, the results of the proposed work at Canoncillo will provide an important comparative data base of information that can be subsequently used to interpret cross-cultural trends in urbanization.This project is of particular intellectual merit because it will advance anthropological studies of how patterned changes in architectural form and function within the totality of a preindustrial urban landscape (including both the city center and its supporting hinterland) reflect broader shifts in political centralization, urban-rural relations, institutionalized agricultural production, intra-regional economic structures, as well as conquest and imperial incorporation. Furthermore, this research will contribute significantly to the archaeological analysis of urban power relations especially in regards to the spatial ramifications of imperial conquest and local resistance within a highly urbanized landscape. Ultimately, work at Canoncillo will provide a far more detailed long-term understanding of Latin American organizational principles and allow us to better understand the historical precedents behind the multitude of present-day Latin American urban configurations and how rural and urban populations have adapted to changes in their environment such as desertification and El Nino events - both of which are problems that continue to confront modern-day inhabitants of the Jequetepeque valley.