The Correlation Between Domestic Status and Social Organization Form

斯托尼布鲁克大学的伊丽莎白·斯通博士将与来自芝加哥大学、斯托尼布鲁克大学、牛津大学和慕尼黑大学的同事一起进行考古研究，研究位于伊拉克南部的乌尔遗址家庭生活的连续性程度，从公元前三千年晚期的帝国首都，到公元前二千年早期的许多小城邦之一。 对美索不达米亚社会的解释，受到书面记录的严重影响，经常将考古记录中以公共建筑为主的早期社会解释为一个非常自上而下的社会，有些人认为大部分人口与聊天奴隶相当。 然而，随后的时期最出名的是其国内地区，这些地区产生了私人信件和合同，并证明了大部分人口的相当大的代理权。 该项目旨在从国内地区恢复可追溯到这两个时期的可比数据，以确定当前书面记录中的差异是否反映了社会的真实的变化或遗址形成差异的影响。这项研究将为复杂社会的兴起和通常随后的衰落提供基本的洞察力。这些资金将用于支持第三季也是最后一季的现场工作。3区最高的建筑为一位将军所有，表明建筑投资相当可观。 然而，上层的建筑包含了几层烤砖，并展示了乌尔早期挖掘中已知的一些西北墙和房间宽度。其目标是获得一系列建筑、人工制品、动物和植物的数据，这些数据可以与当代数据进行比较，这些数据可以在不同时期进行比较。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Dr. Elizabeth Stone, of Stony Brook University, along with colleagues from the University of Chicago, Stony Brook University, Oxford University and the University of Munich will undertake archaeological research to study the degree of continuity in domestic life at the site of Ur, located in southern Iraq, as the city was transformed from the imperial capital in the late third millennium to one of many small city states in the early second millennium B.C.E. Interpretations of Mesopotamian society, heavily influenced by the written record, have often interpreted the earlier level where the archaeological record is dominated by public buildings, as a very top down society, with some suggesting that much of the population were comparable to chattle slaves. However, the subsequent period is best known for its domestic areas which have yielded private letters and contracts and testify to considerable agency on the part of the larger population. This project aims to recover comparable data from domestic areas dating to both both periods to determine whether or not the differences in the current written record reflect real changes in society or the effect of differences in site formation. The research will provide basic insight into factors which underlie the rise and often subsequent decline of complex societies.These funds will be used to support the third and last season of work at the site. The uppermost architectural in Area 3 was owned by a general and indicates considerable construction investment. However the architecture in the overlying level incorporates few courses of baked brick and exhibits some of the narrowest walls and room widths known from the earlier excavations at Ur. The goal is to obtain a sequence of architectural, artifactual, faunal and floral data that can be compared with the contemporary data which can be compared between time periods.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.