Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Role of Food in Establishing Social Solidarity

虽然食物被广泛认为是人类社会生活和文化的基本组成部分，但日常饮食习惯与更广泛的社会融合和社会转型过程之间的关系却很少受到关注。本研究调查了过去食物变化的社会驱动因素，并为考虑小规模社会中食物和食物实践在社会和经济转型中的作用提供了一个比较案例。更广泛地说，这项研究将改善和促进当代西部普韦布洛社区（即阿科马，祖尼，霍皮人）祖先的烹饪和传统饮食实践的长期历史。这些数据的收集将为亚利桑那州立大学的几名本科生提供多种考古分析方法的培训和研究经验。这项研究产生的数据集将被数字化整理，并通过出版物、专业会议和数字考古记录（tDAR）在线提供给其他研究人员。因此，这项研究不仅将综合大量以前发表和未发表的数据以及新的研究，而且还将通过为其他地方和时期的食物方式的未来研究提供有用的模板和基线，加强研究和教育的基础设施。通过调查和开发方法来检查过去的食物实践及其社会动态，本研究有助于理解食物在日常生活中的社会和政治重要性。这项拟议的研究将提供关于公元13世纪和14世纪区域和当地人口快速聚集和迁移时期Zuni/Cibola地区家庭和公共食物实践的食物方式和社会动态的详细视图。具体而言，本研究探讨了社会转型、经济集约化与聚落规模、密度和社会多样性增加之间的关系。本研究利用多种考古数据，对美国西南部Cibola地区两个定居地区的家庭食品和食品技术如何发展、变化或持续进行了详细的比较分析。

While food is widely considered a fundamental part of human social life and culture, the relationships between daily food practices and broader processes of social integration and social transformation have received little attention. This study investigates social drivers of food change in the past and provides a comparative case for considering the role of food and food practices in social and economic transformations in small-scale societies. More broadly, this research will improve and contribute to long-term histories of cuisine and traditional food practices of ancestral peoples of contemporary Western Puebloan communities (i.e., Acoma, Zuni, Hopi). The collection of this data will provide training and research experience for several undergraduate students in multiple archaeological analytical methods at Arizona State University. The data sets produced by this research will be digitally curated and made available to other researchers in publications, professional meetings, and online through the Digital Archaeology Record (tDAR). Thus, this study will not only synthesize large amounts of previously published and unpublished data and new research, but it will enhance infrastructure for research and education by providing a useful template and baseline for future studies of foodways in other places and periods. By investigating and developing methods to examine food practices and their social dynamics in the past, this research contributes to understandings about the social and political importance of food in everyday life.The proposed study will provide a detailed view of the foodways and social dynamics surrounding household and communal food practices in the Zuni/Cibola region over a period of rapid regional and local population aggregation and migration in the 13th and 14th centuries AD. Specifically, this research addresses relationships between social transformation, economic intensification, and increasing settlement size, density, and social diversity. This study draws on multiple kinds of archaeological data to provide a detailed comparative analysis of how the foods and food technologies of households developed, changed, or persisted in two settlement regions the Cibola region of the U.S. Southwest.