Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Community Formation, Migration, and Social Transformation in Ancestral Puebloan Society

博士论文改进补助金：普韦布洛祖先社会的社区形成、移民和社会转型

• 批准号: 0451354
• 负责人: Keith Kintigh
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-12-01 至 2005-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0451354&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Community

Under the supervision of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Gregson Schachner will conduct a research project aimed at understanding the formation of ancestral Puebloan villages in the El Morro Valley of west-central New Mexico during the AD 1200s. Prior to the thirteenth century, the El Morro Valley was used by nearby Puebloan populations as a resource gathering area and for sporadic, short-term habitation. However, by the late AD 1200s, thousands of migrant Puebloan farmers founded a series of villages and transformed the El Morro Valley into one of the largest population centers on the Colorado Plateau. Schachner's research will utilize analyses of regional settlement patterns and ceramic exchange in order to understand the process of migration and its resulting effects on community formation.The formation of social networks that structure social interaction on a local level is one of the key processes ensuring successful human settlements. The ubiquity of these networks in daily life makes their appearance seem unproblematic and timeless. However, it is during the formation of these networks that dramatic changes in community structure and traditions may occur. Schachner's research will examine the process of community formation during a period following the movement of migrant groups into an uninhabited area where few aspects of community or place had been previously defined. By focusing on the variety of ways in which communities formed under these circumstances, this project will explore how local social networks emerge, function, and are transformed through human interaction.Schachner's study will employ a two-pronged, comparative methodology focused on ancient El Morro Valley settlement patterns and ceramic exchange. Settlement pattern analyses will highlight the chronology, patterns of growth, and social scale of community formation in multiple villages. This project will also employ instrumental neutron activation analysis to track the exchange of two different ceramic types in order to assess the geographic origins of migrant populations, social diversity within newly founded communities, and the maintenance of external social ties that are often key channels of population movement and continuing social support. By utilizing a variety of methods and types of data, Schachner's study will contribute to a growing body of scholarship that focuses on the interplay between population movement, community formation, and pan-regional social transformations in small-scale societies.This research is a key component of the training of a young scholar and will contribute to an ongoing project that integrates graduate and undergraduate researchers. Site and ceramic data from this project will be available to other scholars in the New Mexico Cultural Resource Information System and the University of Missouri Archaeometry Lab ceramic compositional database, respectively. This project will form the basis of a Ph.D. dissertation, be summarized in professional articles, and presented in public formats. This study also focuses on a key period of ancestral Puebloan history and may be of interest to local tribal peoples. In addition, fieldwork for this research has been largely conducted on private lands and ongoing cooperation with local landowners provides an important avenue for encouraging archaeological site preservation in a rapidly developing area.

在基思·金蒂（Keith Kintigh）博士的监督下，格雷格森·萨赫纳（Gregson Schachner）将进行一项研究项目，旨在了解公元1200年代新墨西哥州中西部莫罗谷祖先普韦布兰村庄的形成。在十三世纪之前，附近的普埃布兰人口将El Morro山谷用作资源收集区，并用于零星的短期居住。但是，到1200年代后期，成千上万的移民普韦布兰农民建立了一系列村庄，并将El Morro山谷转变为科罗拉多高原上最大的人口中心之一。 Schachner的研究将利用区域解决模式和陶瓷交换的分析，以了解移民过程及其对社区形成的影响。在当地层面上构建社交互动的社交网络的形成是确保人类成功的关键过程之一。这些网络在日常生活中的无处不在，使它们的外观看起来无误和永恒。但是，正是在这些网络的形成过程中，社区结构和传统可能会发生巨大变化。 Schachner的研究将在移民群体转移到无人居住的领域之后的一个时期内研究社区形成的过程，在此之前，以前几乎没有定义过社区或地点的方面。通过关注在这种情况下社区形成的各种方式，该项目将探讨当地社交网络如何通过人类互动出现，功能和转变。定居模式分析将突出多个村庄中社区形成的年代，增长模式和社会规模。该项目还将采用工具性中子激活分析来跟踪两种不同的陶瓷类型的交换，以评估移民人群的地理起源，新成立的社区内的社会多样性以及维持外部社会关系通常是人口运动的关键渠道和持续社会支持。通过利用各种方法和类型的数据，Schachner的研究将有助于越来越多的奖学金，重点是小型社会中人口运动，社区形成和泛区域社会转型之间的相互作用。这项研究是对年轻学者的培训的关键组成部分，并将为正在进行的项目综合研究生研究生和研究生研究生培训。该项目的站点和陶瓷数据将分别向新墨西哥州文化资源信息系统和密苏里大学考古实验室陶瓷组成数据库中的其他学者提供。该项目将构成博士学位的基础。论文，以专业文章进行总结，并以公共格式介绍。这项研究还重点介绍了祖先普韦布拉族历史的关键时期，并可能引起当地部落人民的关注。此外，这项研究的实地调查主要是在私人土地上进行的，与当地土地所有者进行的持续合作为鼓励快速发展的地区的考古现场保存提供了重要的途径。