Dissertation Research: Religious Organization and Political Structure in Pre-Hispanic Southern Costa Rica

论文研究：前西班牙裔哥斯达黎加南部的宗教组织和政治结构

• 批准号: 1125540
• 负责人: Robert Drennan
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 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: 2011-05-01 至 2012-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1125540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Religious; Organization; Political

Under the supervision of Dr. Robert D. Drennan, Felipe Sol will carry out an archaeological survey in the Upper Térraba Basin of southern Costa Rica in order to study the relation between religious organization and political structure in the region's ancient societies. Religion was often an important political element in early complex societies, but the role that religion played in the initial establishment of centralized political organization seems highly varied.The Upper Térraba Basin was apparently integrated into a society of regional scale during the Chiriquí period (around 1000 AD). Its principal center was a large community at the archaeological site of Rivas, an extensive complex of ceremonial and residential platforms with associated cemeteries. The survey that Mr. Sol will carry out will document the patterns of residence and the distribution of ritual and economic activities across the region in which Rivas emerged as a major center. The regional distribution of settlements - and especially the patterns of change through time in this distribution - are sensitive indicators of the relationship of a hinterland population to a political center, and of the centripetal forces that draw a regional population together. The artifacts recovered in different occupation zones across the region will provide indicators of the distribution of both economic and ritual activities and help to identify what kinds of activities were especially centralized at Rivas. The results of Mr. Sol's survey will place the emerging political center in a broader regional context, and enable him to assess the role that religion played in the emergence of one complex society in the past. It will thus help to understand more generally the ways in which politics, economy and religion connect in the large-scale complex societies in which most of humanity lives today.The research will have broader impacts as well. As dissertation research it is vital to the training of the doctoral candidate. It will also enhance public understanding of science by collaborating with the Tropical Science Center in its work with local communities to increase appreciation of the natural and cultural resources of the region and of the opportunities that these present for scientific research. As a regional survey it will also make a major contribution to the registration of the region's archaeological remains and aid in the protection and preservation of Costa Rican cultural heritage.

在D. Drennan的监督下，Felipe Sol Willy在哥斯达黎加的上层盆地进行了制度调查，以研究该地区早期社会的宗教组织与政治结构之间的关系。宗教在最初的集中式政治化中，似乎是多种多样的。在里瓦斯（Rivas）的一些罗斯（Ross）地区成为一个主要中心 - 对腹地人口与政治中心的关系和中心部队的敏感指标。军团将主要的指标表明，苏尔维调查的结果将使新兴的政治中心在更广泛的秘密环境中，这将有助于更多地了解大规模的政治，经济和宗教信仰。大多数人类的社会。这些对调查的展现还将为雷吉亚的考古遗体做出重大贡献，并有助于保护和保护哥斯达黎加文化遗产。