RUI: The Process of Rural Industrialization

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。18世纪末和19世纪美国工业的崛起极大地改变了美国。研究早期工业社区的研究人员希望了解物质、经济、人口和社会因素是如何在工业化进程中交织在一起的。考古学特别适合提供相关的洞察，因为它可以追踪文化变化在很长一段时间内的轨迹。考古学还可以找回无数男男女女的物证，尽管他们在历史书中迷失了，但他们帮助美国成为一个工业和经济强国。这个项目不是关注工业巨头或城市的工业发展，而是研究工业化如何在小型社区产生共鸣，改变工作和家庭生活。这项研究将产生新的数据，以了解过去工业化的背景和后果，以及工业化如何继续改变现在的世界。该项目将促进对当地社区如何体验和参与更广泛的人员、技术、商品和想法流动的比较研究。此外，该项目还将为中学生、教师和童子军提供机会，通过参与考古研究来了解他们后院的历史。研究小组还将在斯托达茨维尔和乔安娜·弗内斯的遗产中心安装博物馆展品，详细介绍这项研究。最后，该项目将为本科生提供参与考古田野工作、文物分析和公共宣传的机会。更多的本科生将受益于通过大学课程接触到这种考古研究。这个以本科为主的机构的这个项目将为学生提供一个独特的机会，让他们合作进行研究，并寻求这些数据的呈现。学生中有许多是来自科学界代表性不足的人群的第一代大学生。研究小组将通过对宾夕法尼亚州两个19世纪工业社区的考古研究，研究工业化带来的无数变化。对这些工业社区的环境数据以及历史和材料记录的比较研究将使研究小组能够审查(A)自然特征与文化和历史因素相交的不同方式，以确定这些社区的经济和采掘活动；(B)这些社区采取的工业姿态导致的人口构成、经济组织和社会形态的交叉变化。在该项目期间进行的考古实地工作将侧重于确定和挖掘家庭背景，加强以前侧重于社区结构和工作地点的实地工作。通过记录商品消费的可变性，研究小组将能够检查不同的社会群体是如何参与或抵制工业化的，以及工业化本身是如何促成美国新兴民族的。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The rise of American industry during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dramatically transformed the United States. Researchers who study early industrial communities wish to understand how physical, economic, demographic, and social factors intersected in the unfolding of industrialization. Archaeology is particularly well placed to provide relevant insight because it can trace trajectories of cultural change over extended periods of time. Archaeology also can recover material evidence of the countless men and women who, though lost to the history books, helped America become an industrial and economic power. Rather than focus on giants of industry or the industrial development of cities, this project will examine how industrialization resonated in small communities, transforming work and domestic life. This research will generate new data for understanding the contexts and consequences of industrialization in the past and how industrialization continues to transform the world in the present. The project will facilitate comparative research on how local communities experience and engage with wider flows of people, technology, commodities, and ideas. Additionally, the project will provide opportunities for secondary school students, teachers, and scout troops to learn about the history in their backyards through participation in archaeological research. The research team will also install museum exhibits detailing the research at the heritage centers in Stoddartsville and Joanna Furnace. Finally, the project will provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to participate in archaeological fieldwork, artifact analysis, and public outreach. A larger number of undergraduate students will benefit from exposure to this archaeological research through university courses. This project at a primarily undergraduate institution will provide a unique opportunity for students, many of whom are first-generation college students from populations that are underrepresented in the sciences, to collaborate on research and pursue the presentation of these data. The research team will examine the myriad changes wrought by industrialization through the archaeological study of two nineteenth-century industrial communities in Pennsylvania. Comparative study of environmental data and historic and material records from these industrial communities will allow the research team to examine (a) the varying ways in which physical features intersected with cultural and historical factors to define the economic and extractive activities of these communities; and (b) the intersecting changes in demographic composition, economic organization, and social formations that resulted from the industrial postures adopted by these communities. Archaeological fieldwork conducted during the project will focus on the identification and excavation of domestic contexts, augmenting previous fieldwork focused on community structures and work sites. By documenting variability in the consumption of commodities, the research team will be able to examine how different social groups participated in or resisted industrialization and how industrialization itself may have contributed to an emergent American ethnicity.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.