HRRA: Emergency Regional Studies in the Heartland of the Yunnanese Bronze Age: Archaeological Survey in SW China

HRRA：云南青铜时代中心地带的紧急区域研究：中国西南考古调查

• 批准号: 0835153
• 负责人: Alice Yao
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0835153&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HRRA; Emergency; Regional; Studies; Heartland

With National Science Foundation Support, Dr. Alice Yao, Dr. Henry Wright and the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in China will conduct one season of archaeological research on the Lake Dian Basin. The team brings together U.S. and Chinese specialists in archaeology to investigate the origins of a powerful Bronze Age polity known as the as the Dian Kingdom. Located in the well-protected high altitude basin of Lake Dian, the Dian Kingdom emerged as a formidable independent polity occupying an important communication node between ancient China and mainland Southeast Asia. The Dian Kingdom and neighboring polities appeared to have achieved prominence during a dynamic period of escalating interregional warfare and trade across ancient China and Southeast Asia. Current archaeological research seeks to determine the impact these regional political developments may have had on the sociopolitical formations in the Lake Dian basin. Was this sociopolitical complexity directly introduced by Chinese states or motivated by competition and trade with its immediate neighbors? Only the recovery of Bronze Age occupation sites in the Lake Dian can address the enigmatic origins of the Dian Kingdom. This project provides a first-ever international effort to search for possible prehistoric occupations in this region.Solving the nature of Dian origins requires a solid understanding of the timing of sociopolitical developments within the Lake Dian basin. The goals of the project are 1) to identify prehistoric occupation sites from archaeological field survey and satellite imagery, 2) to provide radiometric dates from these discovered sites that would contribute toward a chronology for the Dian polity, and 3) to collect materials from surfaces and exposed cuts to document the nature of cultural activities at these sites. The survey approach employs high resolution satellite imagery taken before the introduction of mechanized agriculture to guide a controlled field survey in target areas showing greater promise of site recovery. This exploratory investigation can potentially chart the genesis of the Dian region from its prehistoric beginnings to its florescence as a Bronze Age polity. If successful, the direct intellectual merit of the research will be the discovery of prehistoric occupation sites in a region of China where few sites have ever been documented. The recovery of these sites would provide the spatio-temporal framework necessary to chronicle the socio-political developments of a poorly understood region in China. This groundwork would then stimulate the development of working models for secondary formations in the ancient world. Beyond the scientific value of discovering ancient Dian sites, the project anticipates broader impact by promoting scholarly exchange between the US and China through this first time archaeological collaboration in Yunnan province. In addition, the development of cost-effective reconnaissance methods that are simultaneously non-intrusive can be easily adapted to fit the needs of public archaeology and heritage management.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，中国的爱丽丝Yao博士，亨利·赖特（Henry Wright）博士和云南省文化文物与考古研究所将对黛安·萨林湖（Lake Dian Basin）进行考古研究。 该团队汇集了美国和中国考古专家，调查了一个强大的青铜时代政体的起源，称为戴安·王国。 黛安王国位于戴安湖（Lake Dian）的良好保护高海拔盆地中，成为一个强大的独立政体，占据了古代中国和东南亚大陆之间重要的通信节点。 黛安王国和邻国政治似乎在整个中国古代和东南亚的区域间战争和贸易的动态时期似乎取得了突出。 当前的考古研究旨在确定这些地区政治发展可能对戴安湖盆地社会政治形成产生的影响。 这种社会政治复杂性是由中国国家直接引入的还是与直接邻国竞争和贸易激励？ 只有戴安湖中青铜时代的占领地点的恢复才能解决黛安王国的神秘起源。 该项目提供了有史以来第一个国际努力，以寻找该地区可能的史前职业。阐明黛安起源的性质需要对黛安湖盆地内社会政治发展的时机有深入的了解。 该项目的目标是1）从考古现场调查和卫星图像中识别史前职业地点，2）提供这些发现的地点的辐射日期，这些日期将有助于Dian Polity的年表，3）从表面收集材料。并暴露了削减，以记录这些地点文化活动的性质。 调查方法采用高分辨率的卫星图像在引入机械化农业之前采用的卫星图像来指导目标区域的受控现场调查，显示出更大的现场恢复希望。 这项探索性研究可以潜在地绘制戴安地区的起源，从史前起步到其作为青铜时代政治的荧光。 如果成功的话，这项研究的直接智力优点将是在中国地区发现史前职业网站，那里很少有任何地方。 这些地点的恢复将提供时空框架，以记录中国一个知名度地区的社会政治发展。 然后，这种基础将刺激古代世界中次要形成的工作模型的发展。 除了发现古老的黛安遗址的科学价值之外，该项目还可以通过第一次在云南省的考古合作来促进美国和中国之间的学术交流，从而预期更广泛的影响。 此外，可以很容易地适应同时无侵犯的具有成本效益的侦察方法，以满足公共考古和遗产管理的需求。