Collaborative Research: Uci-Cansahcab Regional Intergration Project

合作研究：Uci-Cansahcab 区域一体化项目

• 批准号: 1063691
• 负责人: Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
• 金额: $ 2.78万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2014-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Uci; Cansahcab; Regional; Collaborative; Research; Uci; Cansahcab; Regional

The Ucí-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project explores the ways in which the integration of several ancient settlements in the Northern Maya lowlands (what is now the state of Yucatan, Mexico) transformed political, economic, social, and ritual life. Integration took place at the beginning of the Classic period (250-550 AD) when the ancient Maya built a stone causeway that linked the city of Ucí with the town of Cansahcab, located 18km to the east. The causeway also connected two other towns and a handful of hamlets in between Ucí and Cansahcab. The rise of Izamal, the regional capital, also played a role in this integration. In particular, a style of architecture using massive stones originated at Izamal and spreads to all of the sites along the causeway. This project seeks to gauge both the impact of regional integration on the people living near the causeway as well as the ways in which these people actively shaped the outcome of this integration. National Science Foundation Funding will be used to excavate eight ruins of various size to detect changes that occurred after the integration and to determine whether these changes affected all sites in the vicinity of Ucí or only those sites linked to the causeways. An appreciation of the dynamics of power has prompted archaeologists to recognize that people do not merely react to policies emanating from central authorities. The dynamic histories and strategic maneuverings of local communities help shape those policies and the terms of integration. A fundamental area of archaeological inquiry has been to study the impact of regional integration on local communities. This approach, sometimes referred to as "bottom up", has been fruitful at multiple levels of political complexity and the current research will add to this domain. However, following the notion that all members of society, regardless of their position in the field of power relations, play active rolls in the production of history, one must also recognize that "impact" goes both ways. In other words, a "bottom-up" approach to historical transformations must attend not only to how hinterland communities were impacted by centralized authorities, but 1) how the strategies of non-elites condition and circumscribe the exercise of centralized power; and, 2) how the extensive social diversity of actors grouped together in the unwieldy category of "non-elite" results in divisions and movements that are themselves a source of transformation. This project has multiple broader impacts. These impacts collaboration with descendant communities and training workers and archaeologists at various skill levels. Collaboration involves working with residents of Ucí and other villages as well as migrant communities in order to promote preservation of cultural heritage. As for training, students at the University of Kentucky as well as the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan will gain opportunities to complete Masters theses, doctoral dissertations and licentiatura theses with the mentoring of the PI and Mexican collaborators.

UCí-Cansahcab区域一体化项目探讨了北部玛雅人低地几个古代环境（如今是尤卡坦，墨西哥的状态）改变政治，经济，社会和仪式生活的方式。一体化是在经典时期开始的（公元250 - 550年）进行的，当时古老的玛雅人建造了将Ucí市与位于东部18公里的Cansahcab镇联系起来的石头堤道。堤道还连接了另外两个城镇，在UCí和Cansahcab之间连接了一些小村庄。区域首都伊扎马尔的崛起也在这一融合中发挥了作用。特别是，一种使用巨大石头的建筑风格起源于izamal，并扩散到堤道沿岸的所有地点。该项目旨在衡量区域一体化对居住在堤道附近的人们的影响，以及这些人积极塑造这种融合结果的方式。国家科学基金会的资金将用于挖掘各种规模的八个废墟，以检测集成后发生的变化，并确定这些变化是否影响了UCí附近的所有地点，或者仅影响与原因相关的那些地点。对权力动力的欣赏促使考古学家认识到人们不仅会对中央当局发出的政策做出反应。当地社区的动态历史和战略操纵有助于塑造这些政策和整合条款。存档学调查的一个基本领域是研究区域一体化对当地社区的影响。这种方法有时被称为“自下而上”，在多个层次的政治复杂性上富有成果，当前的研究将增加该领域。但是，在注意到所有社会成员在权力关系领域的地位如何，在历史的生产中发挥积极作用，也必须认识到“影响”是双向的。换句话说，对历史转变的“自下而上”方法不仅必须参加腹地社区如何受到集中当局的影响，而且还必须参加非精英条件的策略以及限制行使集中权力的策略；以及2）如何将“非精英”类别融合在一起的参与者的广泛社会多样性如何融合到自己是转型来源的分裂和运动中。该项目具有更广泛的影响。这些影响与后代社区，培训各种技能水平的培训工人和考古学家的合作。合作涉及与UCí和其他村庄以及移民社区的居民合作，以促进文化遗产的保护。至于培训，肯塔基大学的学生以及尤卡坦大学的学生将获得硕士学位，博士学位论文和授权书的机会，并通过PI和墨西哥合作者进行心理。