REU Site: Northern Chaco Outliers Project in Archaeology

该项目部分由社会、行为和经济科学理事会的国家科学基金会本科生研究经验（REU）站点计划资助。除了整合本科研究和教育外，它还具有更广泛的科学和社会影响。该REU遗址奖授予乌鸦峡谷考古中心，为来自服务不足人群的10名本科生提供真实的考古研究，为期3年，为期7周（共30名学生）。学生积极参与研究与长期研究项目框架内的专业导师，北查科异类项目。学生在stem基础上的学习目标得到广泛的准备，这是未来在该学科取得成功所必需的。该课程为学生提供必要的知识、技能和能力，以确保未来在考古领域的就业，并攻读高级学位，成为下一代专业人士、部落历史保护官员、教育工作者和科学领域的领导者。通过对过去人类行为的推断，可以更好地理解支配全球文化变化的原则，并解决与当今社会相关的问题，为指导未来的政策制定提供关键信息。克罗峡谷考古中心于2017年启动了北查科异类项目，旨在解决围绕梅萨维德地区祖先社区扩张的重要区域问题，以及更广泛的人类学研究问题，如人与环境的相互作用、不平等/平等的发展、社区中心的政治作用和身份形成/解体。虽然本网站以区域为重点，但其成果具有国家和全球影响。通过从事更广泛的人类学问题的科学研究，REU学生推进和分享人类过去的知识，并为围绕过去、现在和未来人类行为的跨文化和跨学科研究做出贡献。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. It has broader scientific and societal impacts in addition to integrating undergraduate research and education. This REU Sites award to the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center supports authentic archaeological research for 10 undergraduate students from underserved populations over the course of seven weeks spanning three years (30 total students). Students actively engage in research alongside professional mentors within the framework of a long-term research project, the Northern Chaco Outliers Project. Students receive extensive preparation in STEM-based learning objectives that are necessary for future success within the discipline. This program provides students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to secure future employment within archaeology and to pursue advanced degrees, emerging as the next generation of professionals, Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, educators, and leaders within the sciences. Inferences generated about past human behavior are utilized to create a better understanding of the principles that govern culture change worldwide and to address issues relevant to today’s societies, providing critical information to guide future policy making. The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center initiated the Northern Chaco Outliers Project in 2017 with the goals of addressing important regional questions surrounding the expansion of ancestral communities in the Mesa Verde region, as well as broader anthropological research questions concerning human-environment interactions, the development of inequality/equality, the political role of community centers, and identity formation/dissolution. Although this Site has a regional focus, its results have national and global impacts. By engaging in scientific research focused on broader anthropological questions, REU students advance and share knowledge of the human past and contribute to cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research surrounding human actions in the past, present, and future.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.