Collaborative Research: Long Term Process of Cultural Melding

研究人员将研究社区如何形成，以及混合文化传统如何在新的生态环境中通过移民和定居发展。物品的制造、交换和使用嵌入到社会关系中，包括教学、谈判和日常使用的过程。因此，物品积极地在创造和使用它们的人之间建立关系，尽管背景，生活方式和信仰体系存在差异。在全球移民和环境不稳定的时代，以物质文化和实践联系在一起的人们网络为中心的考古研究揭示了人们如何应对谈判物理和文化边界的普遍挑战。基于考古数据的人类学方法为不断变化的世界提供了有弹性的策略。该项目将强调第一代和土著学生参与和培训考古研究。该团队还将与部落民族合作，帮助他们确定与祖先的直接历史联系，并完善他们的历史兴趣领域，以更好地促进《美洲原住民坟墓保护和遣返法》（NAGPRA）所概述的协商和遣返程序。这个项目强调了日常实践（在这种情况下，陶器的生产和使用）如何促进了生活在美国沿海地区的人群之间的不同类型的社会联系，其中一些人是最近的移民。而不是假设共享的身份或从属关系，研究人员将使用社会网络分析方法，结合细粒度的元素，技术功能和陶器的图像属性来检查这些关系的结构。利用现有的收藏，研究人员将开发一个地理和时间敏感的空间模型。该地区为研究沿海环境中日益增加的社会复杂性提供了一个新的背景，在那些不依赖农业提供通常支撑复杂社会的粮食盈余的人中。所采用的方法将提供一个模型，用于研究1）物质文化实践中的细粒度差异如何反映创造和使用这些对象的人之间的各种联系，以及2）对象如何通过亲属关系，贸易和交换网络，政治联盟，和/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进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

Researchers will investigate how communities form and hybrid cultural traditions develop through migration and settlement in new ecological contexts. The manufacture, exchange, and use of objects are embedded in social relationships that include processes of teaching and learning, negotiation, and everyday use. Thus, objects actively forge relationships among the people who create and use them, despite differences in backgrounds, lifeways, and belief systems. In a time of increasing migration and environmental instability worldwide, archaeological research that centers networks of people linked by material culture and practice reveals how people contend with the universal challenges of negotiating physical and cultural borders. Anthropological approaches such as this, grounded in archaeological data, contribute resilient strategies for a changing world. This project will emphasize the participation and training of first-generation and Indigenous students in archaeological research. The team will also collaborate with tribal nations to help them define direct historical connections with their ancestors and refine their areas of historical interest, to better facilitate consultation and repatriation processes outlined by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This project emphasizes how daily practice—in this case, the production and use of pottery—facilitated different types of social connections among groups of people living in a US coastal region some of whom were recent migrants. Rather than assuming shared identities or affiliations, the researchers will examine the structure of these relationships using a social network analysis approach that incorporates fine-grained elemental, technofunctional, and iconographic attributes of pottery. Making use of extant collections, the researchers will develop a geographically and temporally sensitive spatial model. This region presents a new context for investigating increasing social complexity in coastal environments, and among people who did not rely on agriculture to provide the food surplus that typically underpins complex societies. The methods employed will provide a model for examining 1) how fine-grained distinctions in material culture practice reflect various connections among the people who create and use these objects, and 2) how objects are fundamental to connecting people through kinship, trade and exchange networks, political alliances, and/or religious practice.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.