Collaborative Research: Origins of Urbanization and State Formation

这个项目探索了影响国家形成和城市化的因素。在公元1世纪上半叶达到顶峰时，特奥蒂瓦坎崛起成为前哥伦布时代美洲最大的城市。这座城市是高度规划的，有一个不朽的城市震中和人口稠密的社区，其中包括来自墨西哥和中美洲其他地区的多民族移民人口。对这座美国早期大都市的研究仍然是一个谜，其中包括(1)它的城市化速度和进程；(2)推动它人口增长的主要因素；(3)它的政治组织；(4)作为治理和行政所在地的建筑群。这些问题对于改善目前对美洲深厚历史的理解以及全球最早的城市和州的人类创造至关重要。研究团队的多样化组成加强了跨学科的国际科学合作。该项目还培训学生进行严谨和实证的科学研究的方法。在国家科学基金会的资助下，杉山三郎博士(亚利桑那州立大学)、杉山那瓦博士(史密森研究所)和大卫·卡巴罗博士(波士顿大学)将在位于古城-S之间的柱子广场建筑群、可能的宫殿或行政中心-两个最大的纪念碑：太阳金字塔和月亮金字塔-进行为期三年的考古研究。这项研究涉及来自美国、墨西哥和日本的研究人员之间的密切国际合作。这个多方面、跨学科的项目将考察支撑这座城市通过其最大的、未挖掘的行政综合体的经济、政治和仪式活动。国际小组将通过结合陶瓷、C14和考古磁性分析进行密集的挖掘、地球物理勘探、地面化学分析和年代学评估。主要目标是将这些结构定义为宫殿-行政综合体，记录与其公共和私人职能相关的活动区域，并确定哪些人居住在这些综合体中，以及他们在管理特奥蒂瓦坎方面发挥了什么作用。

This project explores the factors that influence state formation and urbanization. During its apogee in the first half of the first millennium CE, Teotihuacan arose to become the largest city of the pre-Columbian Americas. The city was highly planned, with a monumental urban epicenter and densely settled neighborhoods that incorporated a multi-ethnic population of immigrants who arrived from other parts of Mexico and Central America. Among the enigmas that still pertain to the study of this early American metropolis are (1) its tempo and processes of urbanization; (2) the principal factors that fueled its growing population; (3) its political organization; and (4) what architectural complexes served as seats of governance and administration. These issues are critical for improving current understanding of the deep history of the Americas and the human creation of the earliest cities and states across the globe. The diverse makeup of the research team enhances interdisciplinary, international international scientific collaborations. And the project also trains students in methods of conducting rigorous and empirical scientific research.With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State University), Dr. Nawa Sugiyama (Smithsonian Institution), and Dr. David Carballo (Boston University), will undertake three years of archaeological research in the Plaza of the Columns Complex, a likely palace or administrative center located between the ancient city?s two largest monuments: the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. The research involves close international collaboration between researchers from the US, Mexico, and Japan. This multifaceted, interdisciplinary project will examine the economic, political, and ritual activities that sustained the city through its largest, unexcavated administrative complex. The international team will conduct intensive excavation, geophysical prospection, floor-chemistry analyses, and chronological assessment through a combination of ceramic, C14, and archaeomagnetic analyses. Primary objectives are to define these structures as palatial-administrative complexes, record activity areas associated with their public and private functions, and identify who resided in these complexes and what role they played in governing Teotihuacan.