The Fort Ancient Regional Movement (FARM) Project

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，FARM（Fort Ancient Regional Movement）项目将在Robert Cook博士和一组同事的指导下收集关键数据，以了解跨区域人类社会的发展。 这是一个与我们今天的多民族世界有关的问题，就像在考古学的过去一样。 该项目的重点是确定是否，何时以及如何从邻近地区的移民因素到当地的古堡发展在西南俄亥俄州，一个长期存在的问题，在史前的中西部美国，但与方法结构的一般呼吁世界许多地区。 该项目有助于解决边界和跨界流动等较广泛的问题，而这些问题较少受到关注。 复杂系统边缘的边界区域（例如，密西西比、中美洲、美索不达米亚）经常被降级为来自核心地区的文化的被动接受者。 然而，最近考古学家对这种边界动力学产生了兴趣。 然而，与早期的方法不同，研究人员现在将边境地区视为文化丰富和社会动态的地方，社会行为者在远距离互动方面做出关键决定，结果往往是新的混合形式。 理论的重点是认识到，区域间的人口流动和相互作用的文化边界的模糊性的关键因素。 该项目的一般人类学意义是通过关注与这些方面相关的数据，推动区域间研究向前发展，提供关键信息，然后研究为什么会发生这种迁移。 需要收集的关键数据涉及遗骸的来源。 这将通过对来自11个村庄的个体样本的生物学和太平间框架中的牙釉质的锶含量进行时间检查来完成。 该项目将对教育产生更广泛的影响，无论是在大学环境中还是对公众。 本科和研究生人类学学生将受益于实验室分析培训，导致本科荣誉和研究生水平的论文。 人工制品分析的具体活动将包括对陶器、射弹点、喉和管道的基本检查，包括适合项目的功能、风格和时间属性。 关于遗骸的具体活动将是协助锶取样。 所有学生参与者还将在为期一天的职业讲习班与自然历史的代顿社会合作的指导。 该项目还将产生更广泛的影响，教育公众了解考古数据可以回答的问题类型，特别是现存博物馆收藏品的高研究效用。 通过公布有关这些收藏品的数据，该项目将说明适当策划材料的重要性。 此外，未来的研究项目上的堡垒古代藏品调查本研究将受益于有更坚实的时间参照系。

With National Science Foundation support, the FARM (Fort Ancient Regional Movement) Project, under the direction of Dr. Robert Cook and a team of colleagues, will gather key data for understanding the development of human societies at interregional scales. This is a problem as relevant to our multiethnic world today as in the archaeological past. The project focuses on determining if, when, and how migration from neighboring regions factored into local Fort Ancient developments in southwest Ohio, a long-standing problem in the prehistory of the Midwest U.S. but with methodological structure of general appeal to many world regions. The project contributes to broader issues on frontiers and cross-boundary flows that have received relatively little attention. Frontier zones at the edges of complex systems (e.g., Mississippian, Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia) have often been relegated to the status of passive receivers of culture from core areas. However, recently archaeologists have become interested in such boundary dynamics. Unlike earlier approaches, however, researchers are now addressing frontier zones as culturally rich and socially dynamic places where social actors make key decisions about long-distance interaction and new hybrid formations are often the result. The theoretical focus recognizes that interregional population movements and interactions are key contributors to the blurry nature of cultural boundaries. The general anthropological significance of the project is to move interregional studies forward by focusing on data relevant to these dimensions, providing key information to then examine why such moves occurred. The key data to be gathered pertain to the proveniencing of human remains. This will be accomplished by temporally examining the strontium content of tooth enamel in a biological and mortuary framework for a sample of individuals from eleven villages. The project will have broader impacts in education, both in university settings and for the general public. Undergraduate and graduate anthropology students will benefit by being trained in lab analyses, resulting in undergraduate honors and graduate level theses. Specific activities for artifact analyses will include basic examination of pottery, projectile points, gorgets, and pipes, including functional, stylistic, and temporal attributes as appropriate to the project. Specific activities for human remains will be to assist in strontium sampling. All student participants will also be mentored during a day-long career workshop in partnership with the Dayton Society of Natural History. The project will also have broader impacts in educating the general public about the types of questions that are answerable with archaeological data, and particularly the high research utility of extant museum collections. By promulgating data about these collections, the project will illustrate the importance of properly curated materials. Additionally, future research projects on the Fort Ancient collections investigated in the present study will benefit from having more solid chronological frames of reference.