Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Interaction among Migration, Outcome and Social Structure

本研究的目的是调查复杂和小规模社会之间的网络关系是如何构成的，并通过移民进行重组。先前关于跨文化接触的学术研究强调互动领域、杂交、技术转移或交换模式作为构建边界和定义社会成员的措施。另一方面，理解和考虑历史和关系背景对于建立连贯和概括的跨文化接触理论至关重要。考古学非常适合通过捕捉接触后社区之间关系的转变来探索跨文化接触所产生的复杂社会文化形态。本研究通过加强对移民对社会结构影响的理解，为更广泛的社会和智力利益做出贡献，这是一个重要的分析问题，因为在当代和史前环境中，战争、气候不稳定、经济不安全以及社会动荡导致了移民的盛行。历史背景也将提供理解如何和也许为什么不同的方法多元文化共存可能导致稳定的有利结果或鼓励不稳定和冲突。该项目将研究网络相互关系的作用，作为当地社会和非当地移民如何处理跨文化社会和经济关系的指标。通过应用多重关系或多层社会网络分析方法，有可能深入了解将社区彼此连接起来的各种网络。还可以仔细观察移民过程后社会结构的变化。密歇根州立大学的博士生安德鲁·厄普顿将在史前晚期伊利诺斯河谷中部的密西西比中晚期过渡期间，讲述陶瓷工业在公共规模互动和识别网络转变中的作用。对网络模型的分析将阐明大约公元1300年，奥涅塔部落在密西西比的主要环境中如何重新构建社会关系，以及社区如何协商多元文化的区域同居。激光烧蚀电感耦合等离子体质谱（LA-ICP-MS）将为建立粘土资源获取和烹饪和服务陶器交换网络提供线索。对陶罐上风格装饰分布的分析将揭示基于对共同社会单位的归属和非语言交际的分类识别网络。与陶器容器形式有关的技术特征数据将阐明学习和文化传播的共同关系。本研究为社会结构提供了一个动态的、多方面的视角，有助于更细致地理解文化接触导致的社会和经济变革。

The goal of this research is to investigate how network relationships among complex and smaller-scale societies structure, and are restructured by, migration. Prior scholarship on intercultural contacts emphasizes interaction spheres, hybridization, technological transfer, or models of exchange as measures for constructing borders and defining societal membership. Understanding and accounting for historical and relational context, on the other hand, is critical to the development of a coherent and generalizable theory of intercultural contact. Archaeology is well suited to explore the complex sociocultural formations that result from intercultural contact by capturing transformations in relationships between communities following contact. This research contributes to broader social and intellectual benefit by enhancing understanding of the impact of migration on social structure, which is an important analytical issue due to the prevalence of migration induced by war, climatic instability, economic insecurity, and social unrest in contemporary and prehistoric settings. Historical context will also be provided for understanding how and perhaps why different approaches to multicultural coexistence may lead to stable advantageous outcomes or encourage instability and conflict. This project will examine the role of network interrelationships as indicators of how both local societies and non-local migrant peoples approach intercultural social and economic relations. Through the application of a multiple relations, or multilayer, social network analysis methodology it is possible to gain insight into the various networks that connect communities to one another. It is also possible to scrutinize changes in social structure following a migration process. Andrew Upton, a doctoral student at Michigan State University will address the role of ceramic industry in the transformation of communal-scale interaction and identification networks across the Middle to Late Mississippian transition in the Late Prehistoric central Illinois River Valley. . Analysis of network models will clarify how a circa 1300 A.D. in-migration of an Oneota tribal group restructured social relationships in a Mississippian chiefly environment and how communities negotiated multicultural regional cohabitation. Laser ablation inductively couple plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) will provide clues to model networks of clay resource acquisition and exchange of cooking and serving pottery. Analysis of distributions of stylistic decorations on pots will reveal networks of categorical identification based on ascription to common social units and nonverbal communication. Technological characterization data related to pottery vessel form will elucidate shared relationships of learning and the transmission of culture through time. In providing a dynamic and multi-faceted view on social structure, this research contributes to a more nuanced understanding of social and economic transformations resulting from cultural contact.