Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Socio-Political Differentiation and Land Use in Early South India

安德鲁·鲍尔将在凯瑟琳·D·莫里森博士的指导下，研究南印度通加巴德拉河谷古代人类与环境相互作用的社会和政治层面。更具体地说，这项研究探索了公元前1千年显著的社会差异的出现与文化景观的创造之间的联系，其中包括野生和驯化的农业主食、灌溉水稻农业、水库、牧场、纪念性太平间建筑群和仪式洞穴。这项研究通过分析南印度卡纳塔克邦北部一个大型铁器时代(公元前1200-400年)居民点的植物遗骸，考察了农业生产和消费活动中的社会差异，从而解决了这些关系。植物学分析将在景观历史的更一般考虑范围内进行，将通过系统的考古调查以及地质考古和地层花粉分析来进行调查，以记录这一时期的地貌和植被变化。这些证据之间的模式将表明，社会文化景观生产在一定程度上创造了物质条件，制约和促成了这一时期社会政治不平等的发展和谈判。更广泛地说，这项研究将为考古教育、培训、保存和知识传播做出重大贡献。该项目将在几个印度机构与印度考古学家--包括学生--密切合作，并将新记录遗址的数据库分发给所有有关各方，以协助增加该地区受保护遗址数量的计划。除了促进印度的考古培训和保护工作外，该研究项目的参与者还将继续在印度、美国和世界其他地方的学术场所传播他们的发现。此外，这项研究将提供鲍尔博士论文中将要发表的大部分数据，从而为自然科学和社会科学学者的教育和培训做出重大贡献。

Andrew Bauer, under the supervision of Dr. Kathleen D. Morrison, will investigate the social and political dimensions of ancient human-environment interactions in the Tungabhadra River Valley of South India. More specifically, this research explores the connections between the emergence of pronounced social distinctions during the 1st millennium BC and the creation of a cultural landscape that included wild and domesticated agricultural staples, irrigated rice agriculture, water reservoirs, pasture land, monumental mortuary complexes, and ritual caves. This research addresses these relationships by examining social differences in agricultural production and consumption activities through analyses of botanical remains from a large Iron Age (1200-400 BC) residential site in northern Karnataka, South India. The botanical analyses will be situated within a more general consideration of landscape history, which will be investigated through a systematic archaeological survey, as well as geo-archaeological and stratigraphic pollen analyses to document landform and vegetation changes during the period. Patterning among these multiple lines of evidence will indicate how socio-cultural landscape production partly created the material conditions that constrained and enabled the development and negotiation of socio-political inequalities during the period. More broadly, this research will make significant contributions to archaeological education, training, preservation, and knowledge dissemination. The project will be carried out in close affiliation with Indian archaeologists - including students - at several Indian institutions, and the resultant database of newly documented sites will be disseminated to all parties involved to assist plans of increasing the number of protected sites in the region. In addition to facilitating archaeological training and preservation efforts in India, participants in this research project will continue to disseminate their findings in scholarly venues in India, the United States, and elsewhere around the world. Furthermore, this research will provide the bulk of the data to be published in Bauer's doctoral dissertation, and thus will make a significant contribution to the education and training of natural and social science scholars.