Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Role of Migration in Social Complexity

华盛顿州立大学的Katie理查兹女士和Andrew Duff博士将探索身份如何在边境地区创建，维护和表达，因为他们探索了一个本地前西班牙裔群体的起源和社会组织，今天被称为弗里蒙特，他们生活在今天的犹他州的大部分地区。考古学家研究弗里蒙特已经超过一个世纪;然而，对于弗里蒙特人是谁以及他们来自哪里仍然存在相当大的争论。这个项目将解决有关弗里蒙特的基本，大画面的问题，以帮助创建一个新的基本了解这个群体。弗里蒙特地区位于人口更密集的北美西南部的北方边缘，是探索史前边境地区身份是如何谈判和创造的理想场所。关于弗里蒙特人是谁的学术争论也被证明是教育工作者教授犹他州历史的绊脚石。关于弗里蒙特的信息很少向公众公布。理查兹女士将与四年级教师（犹他州历史是教的一年），以创建课程计划，这将有助于教育工作者更有效地教犹他州的无价的文化遗产和史前史。理查兹女士和达夫博士将利用陶器来探索弗里蒙特的起源，社会组织和身份在这个北美西南部的北方边境。前沿研究提供了一个充满活力和强大的方式来探索身份是如何形成的，谈判，并在不同的传统满足地区保持，并将用于探索创新和传统的复杂融合在弗里蒙特物质文化。使用高技术和低技术方法，研究人员将使用多标量方法来更好地了解弗里蒙特。在最广泛的范围内，研究人员将评估弗里蒙特如何融入美国西南部的更大历史。利用弗里蒙特和西南部陶器的属性，他们将探索弗里蒙特陶瓷传统的潜在起源，并评估彩绘陶瓷技术是否是由于移民或当地生产的仿真而被带到该地区。然后，他们将使用仪器中子活化分析来表征弗里蒙特陶器的化学特征，并在区域范围内重建弗里蒙特生产和交换网络。在最精细的尺度上，他们将探索如何在整个地区的村庄内使用彩绘陶瓷。结合起来，这些分析将创造一个强大的和更完整的理解复杂性和起源在这个前沿地带。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Ms. Katie Richards and Dr. Andrew Duff, of Washington State University, will explore how identity is created, maintained, and expressed in frontier zones as they explore the origins and social organization of a native pre-Hispanic group, referred to today as Fremont, They lived across much of what is today the state of Utah. Archaeologists have studied the Fremont for over a century; however, there is still considerable debate over who the Fremont were and where they came from. This project will address fundamental, big-picture questions about Fremont to help create a new foundational understanding about this group. Located at the northern fringes of the more densely populated North American Southwest, the Fremont region is ideally situated to explore how identity was negotiated and created in prehistoric frontier zones. The academic debate over who the Fremont were has also proved a stumbling block to educators teaching Utah state history. Little information on the Fremont has been published for a public audience. Ms. Richards will work with 4th grade teachers (the year when Utah state history is taught) to create lesson plans that will help educators more effectively teach about Utah’s priceless cultural heritage and prehistory. Ms. Richards and Dr. Duff will use pottery to explore Fremont origins, social organization, and identity in this northern frontier of the North American Southwest. Frontier studies provide a dynamic and powerful way to explore how identity is formed, negotiated, and maintained in regions where disparate traditions meet, and will be used to explore the complex blend of innovation and tradition present in Fremont material culture. Using both high- and low- technology methods, the researchers will use a multi-scalar approach to better understand Fremont. At the broadest scale, the researchers will evaluate how Fremont fits into the larger history of the American Southwest. Using attributes of Fremont and Southwestern pottery, they will explore potential origins of the Fremont ceramic tradition and assess whether painted ceramic technology was brought into the region as a result of migration or was a locally produced emulation. They will then use instrumental neutron activation analysis to chemically characterize Fremont pottery and reconstruct Fremont production and exchange networks at a regional scale. At the finest scale, they will explore how painted ceramics were used within villages across the region. Combined, these analyses will create a robust and more complete understanding of complexity and origins in this frontier zone.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.