Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Social Transformations and Regional Scales of Identity in the Cibola World: AD 1150-1325

博士论文改进补助金：Cibola 世界中的社会转型和身份的区域尺度：公元 1150-1325 年

• 批准号: 0936062
• 负责人: Keith Kintigh
• 金额: $ 1万
• 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: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0936062&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Social

Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Matthew Peeples will conduct archaeological analyses of pottery, architectural data, and site locations from the Zuni/Cibola region of New Mexico and Arizona. The Zuni/Cibola region is centered on the contemporary Zuni Pueblo and the Zuni Indian Reservation. This region has long been a location of relatively large agricultural communities beginning as early as 3,000 years ago. Peeples's work focuses on the period from AD 1150-AD 1325. This period saw a major transformation in the organization of communities as well as changes in the ways that people interacted across the region. In a single generation, people in the Zuni/Cibola region went from living in thousands of small, dispersed agricultural hamlets to living in about twelve large nucleated towns housing several hundred individuals. These analyses are directed at understanding how interaction and social identification among individuals and groups may have changed during this transition. Analyses include (1) chemical characterizations of pottery focused on determining where it was made, (2) studies of the techniques used to produce pottery focused on identifying people using similar methods, (3) studies of painted pottery and public architecture focused on understanding how people expressed social similarities or differences through material culture, and (4) studies of site distributions focused on documenting settlement changes. Together, these analyses will provide a dynamic characterization of social organization and interaction at a regional scale during a period of wide-spread social change. Peeples will test models based on contemporary social theories focused on social movements to explore potential similarities among major social transformations across a variety of cultural and historical contexts.This research will result in the use of well-developed body of theory new to archaeology, as well as new insights into how to address regional-scale social processes in the archaeological record. The large, well-documented regional database of settlements, ceramic source data, and material culture analyses will permit an examination of social change at scales that are seldom directly considered by archaeologists or ethnographers. Archaeological studies such as the one proposed here are uniquely suited to this objective because ethnological studies cannot typically take place at such broad scales and are limited in their temporal coverage. This study will promote participation of underrepresented groups in science by engaging members of the Pueblo of Zuni in consultation. Peeples will organize public presentations for the Zuni Tribal Council and other interested individuals at Zuni during various stages of the project. In addition, Peeples will train three undergraduate anthropology students from Arizona State University to assist in the project. This training will provide job skills for these students and will foster future collaborations. Lastly, this research addresses questions directly relevant for assessments of cultural affiliation in the United States as mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Specifically, this research will provide an alternative means for defining affiliation that does not rely on traditional archaeological culture areas. This alternative has the potential to help in reintegrating anthropological and Native American perspectives into archaeological assessments of affiliation by specifically addressing social and cultural variation rather than masking it.

在基思·金蒂（Keith Kintigh）博士的指导下，马修·佩普尔斯（Matthew Peeples）将对新墨西哥州和亚利桑那州Zuni/Cibola地区的陶器，建筑数据和地点进行考古分析。 Zuni/Cibola地区以当代Zuni Pueblo和Zuni印度保留地为中心。 长期以来，该地区一直是3000年前开始的相对较大的农业社区的地点。 Peeples的工作着重于1325年AD 1150-AD的这段时期。这一时期看到了社区组织的重大转变以及人们在整个地区互动的方式发生了变化。 在一代人中，Zuni/Cibola地区的人们从生活在数千个小型的农业小村庄中，到住在大约十二个拥有数百个人的大约十二个大型核心城镇中。 这些分析旨在了解在此过渡期间，个人和群体之间的互动和社会认同如何发生变化。 分析包括（1）陶器的化学特征，重点是确定其制造的位置，（2）用于生产陶器的技术的研究，重点是使用相似方法来识别人们的陶器，（3）对涂漆的陶器和公共建筑的研究，重点是了解人们如何通过物质文化表达社会相似性或差异，以及（4）针对文档的现场分布研究，重点介绍了用于文档设备的研究。 这些分析共同将在广泛的社会变革期间以区域规模提供社会组织和互动的动态表征。 Peeples将基于当代社会理论测试模型，这些理论的重点是社会运动，以探讨各种文化和历史背景的主要社会转型之间的潜在相似之处。这项研究将导致使用新的考古学理论体系，以及如何解决如何解决考古记录中的区域社会过程的新见解。 大型，有据可查的区域数据库的定居点，陶瓷源数据和物质文化分析将允许考古学家或民族志学家很少直接考虑的尺度上检查社会变革。诸如此处提出的考古研究非常适合这一目标，因为民族学研究通常不能在如此广泛的规模上进行，并且其时间覆盖范围受到限制。 这项研究将通过吸引Zuni的Pueblo成员参与咨询来促进科学中代表性不足的群体的参与。 Peeples将在该项目的各个阶段为Zuni部落委员会和Zuni的其他感兴趣的人组织公开演讲。 此外，Peeples将培训来自亚利桑那州立大学的三名本科人类学学生，以协助该项目。 该培训将为这些学生提供工作技能，并将促进未来的合作。 最后，这项研究解决了与《美国原住民坟墓保护和遣返法》规定的美国文化隶属关系评估直接相关的问题。 具体而言，这项研究将为定义不依赖传统考古文化领域的隶属关系提供另一种方法。 这种替代方案有可能通过专门解决社会和文化差异而不是掩盖人类学和美国原住民的观点，以将人类学和美国原住民的观点重新融合为隶属关系的考古评估。