Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Spatial Manifestations Of Social Identity

本研究的主要目的是调查随着定居点规模和规模的变化，人们和他们建造的空间之间发生的持续相互作用。考古学为分析人口聚集和分散的过程提供了独特的时间深度，并可以证明有关村庄生活的社会影响的一系列问题的信息。以前分散的社会群体如何适应同居？当新的人群聚集在一起建造新的村庄和其他空间单位时，融合是如何实现的，融合的速度如何？某些事件或组织形式是否预示着村庄人口减少？本研究试图更好地了解不同群体之间的谈判，因为他们开始共享空间。专注于建筑的研究揭示了文化体系的重要方面，这些文化体系塑造了它们的物理环境。移徙在当今世界发挥着重要作用-例如，在发展中世界的许多地区，人们从农村地区涌入，改造和扩大城市，查尔斯·亚当斯博士和萨曼莎·弗拉德博士将研究群体用来改变其空间环境的策略及其社会影响这些选择对一个社区的建立和解散有着重要的影响。利用从霍莫洛维定居点群的14世纪霍皮族祖先村庄的挖掘记录，建筑改造，如改变房间大小，内部特征和门道，以及使用垃圾来填充房间，将在空间和时间上定位。在占领那些村庄的整个过程中进行了重大的重组，最终人口减少，导致建筑经常发生变化，文化材料经常存放在房间里。这些改造做法的组成模式和规模将允许在那些村庄内的社会群体之间进行区分，并允许评估他们彼此之间的相对互动。这些村庄的人口逐渐减少，空间的变化，特别是房间的填充，说明了这一过程。这些群体和关系在整个村庄占领过程中如何变化，可以揭示社会组织的波动，从而揭示在聚集和分散的不同阶段整合战略的相对成功。将产生适用于历史和现代背景的村庄聚集和解散的详细模型，学者和后代社区将对Homol'ovi定居点集群的历史有更好的了解。此外，这项研究依赖于以前挖掘的遗址的记录，进一步促进了考古学中心的保护和管理的理想，并增加了挖掘文件的可访问性。最后，该项目的框架是对学生进行考古研究和档案实践的培训。

The primary objective of this research is to investigate the continual interplay that occurs between people and the spaces they construct as settlements change in size and scale. Archaeology provides a unique time depth for analyzing the processes of population aggregation and dispersal and can prove informative on a range of questions concerning the social implications of village life. How do previously dispersed social groups adjust to cohabitation? How is integration achieved and at what pace does it occur when new groups of people come together to construct new villages and other spatial units? Do certain events or forms of organization foreshadow village depopulation? This research attempts to better understand the negotiations among distinct groups as they begin sharing space. Research focused on architecture has revealed important aspects of cultural systems that shape and are shaped by their physical setting. Migration plays a major role in the world today -- for example in many regions of the developing world people flock from rural regions to reshape and expand cities -- and this proposed study of the past can provide insight into the process as it proceeds on a much expanded scale today.Dr. E Charles Adams and Samantha Fladd will examine the strategies used by groups to modify their spatial setting and the social implications these choices have on the creation and dissolution of a community. Using excavation records from the 14th century ancestral Hopi villages of the Homol'ovi Settlement Cluster, architectural alterations, such as changing room size, internal features, and doorways, and the use of trash to fill rooms will be located spatially and temporally. Significant reorganization throughout the occupation of the villages and their eventual depopulation resulted in frequent architectural changes and the frequent deposition of cultural materials within rooms. Patterns in the composition and scale of these practices of modification will allow for distinctions to be made among social groups within the villages, as well as allow for the assessment of their relative interactions with one another. Depopulation of these villages was gradual and modifications to space, particularly the filling of rooms, illustrate this process. How these groups and relationships change throughout village occupation can reveal fluctuations in social organization that shed light on the relative success of strategies of integration during different phases of aggregation and dispersal. Detailed models of village aggregation and dissolution, applicable to historic and modern contexts, will be generated and a greater understanding of the history of the Homol'ovi Settlement Cluster will be of interest to scholars and descendant communities. Additionally, this research relies on records from previously excavated sites, furthering the ideals of preservation and stewardship central to archaeology and increasing the accessibility to the excavation documentation. Finally, the framework of this project forefronts the training of students in archaeological research and archival practices.