Collaborative Research: Sourcing Interaction in the Woodland Period Southeast U.S.: Integrated Approaches to Swift Creek Ceramics

合作研究：美国东南部林地时期的采购互动：斯威夫特溪陶瓷的综合方法

• 批准号: 1111497
• 负责人: Thomas Pluckhahn
• 金额: $ 3.14万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 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: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1111497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Sourcing; Interaction; Woodland

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Neill Wallis and Dr. Thomas Pluckhahn will use a unique form of pottery to identify patterns of social interaction across the "Deep South" of the southeastern U.S. during the late Middle and Late Woodland periods (ca. AD 200 to 800). Termed "Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery" and associated with the Swift Creek and Weeden Island archaeological cultures it has the potential to provide an unexpected insight into prehistoric social organization. Before drying and firing, the vessels were decorated with impressions from a carved wooden paddle. The unique "fingerprints" of more than 400 individual carved wooden paddles have been recognized in the impressions on complicated stamped vessels, and the same paddle stamp can be identified on vessels distributed across multiple sites, sometimes hundreds of kilometers apart. These "paddle matches" between sites lend detailed temporal and spatial resolution to social connections. This research makes a significant contribution to the currently limited body of anthropological knowledge of social interaction and exchange among non-hierarchical, foraging, or tribal societies in a precolonial world. It is also important in delimiting patterns of interaction that may be correlated with important trends such as village aggregation, mound-building, mortuary practice, and long-distance exchange. The project integrates five methods of analysis: (1) Instrumental Neutron Actication Analysis (INAA), (2) petrographic analysis, and (3) digital imaging of paddle stamp designs as complementary methods for determining where vessels were made; (4) technological analysis to identify how vessels were made and used; and (5) radiocarbon dating to develop a chronology of designs and paddle matches. Examining collections from 24 sites distributed across nine regions in northern Florida and southern Georgia, these data will be used to distinguish between alternative forms of interaction. Broader impacts include facilitating future collaborative research and presenting results in a public and timely fashion. Painstaking research has resulted in the identification of hundreds of Swift Creek paddle designs, but the research potential of these data has been limited by haphazard data management. The project will develop a searchable database that links high-resolution images of designs with other vessel attribute data and absolute dates. This database will integrate multiple datasets and provide the synergistic foundation for integrating a growing body of data that can enrich many other research projects, especially regionally-focused theses and dissertations. Maintained and integrated with the collections database at the Florida Museum of Natural History, portions of the research database will also be publicly accessible. The web accessible version of the database will provide a collaborative forum for the public and an interpretive synthesis of current research results.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，尼尔·沃利斯（Neill Wallis）博士和托马斯·普拉卡（Thomas Pluckhahn）博士将在中期和晚期林地时期（公元200至800）中使用独特的陶器来确定美国东南部“深南”的社会互动模式。 被称为“ Swift Creek复杂的印章陶器”，与Swift Creek和Weeden Island考古文化有关，有可能为史前社会组织提供意外的见解。 在干燥和射击之前，将船上的木制桨板上的印象装饰。 在复杂的盖章船上的印象中已经认识到400多个单独的木制桨的独特“指纹”，并且可以在分布在多个地点的容器上鉴定出相同的桨邮票，有时甚至数百公里。 这些站点之间的这些“桨匹配”将详细的时间和空间分辨率借给了社交联系。 这项研究为当前有限的人类学知识和对非等级，觅食或部落社会在殖民世界中的社会互动和交流的人类学知识做出了重大贡献。 这对于划界互动模式也很重要，这可能与重要趋势相关，例如乡村聚集，丘陵建筑，mortuary实践和长距离交流。 该项目集成了五种分析方法：（1）仪器中子作用分析（INAA），（2）岩石学分析和（3）桨邮票设计的数字成像作为确定在哪里制造容器的补充方法； （4）技术分析以确定如何制造和使用血管； （5）放射性碳的日期，以开发设计和桨匹配的年表。 检查来自佛罗里达州北部和佐治亚州南部9个地区的24个地点的收集，这些数据将用于区分替代形式的相互作用。 更广泛的影响包括促进未来的合作研究并以公众和及时的方式提出结果。 艰苦的研究导致了数百种Swift Creek Paddle设计的识别，但是这些数据的研究潜力受到Hanphazard数据管理的限制。 该项目将开发一个可搜索的数据库，该数据库将设计的高分辨率图像与其他容器属性数据和绝对日期联系起来。 该数据库将集成多个数据集，并为整合越来越多的数据的协同基础，这些数据可以丰富许多其他研究项目，尤其是以区域为重点的论文和论文。 在佛罗里达自然历史博物馆的收藏数据库中维护并集成了研究数据库的某些部分，也将公开访问。 数据库的Web访问版本将为公众提供一个协作论坛，并解释了当前的研究结果。