Doctoral Dissertation Research: Places of Gathering: Orange Pottery Variability and the Social Scale of Late Archaic Shell Mound Interaction in Northeast Florida

博士论文研究：聚集地：佛罗里达州东北部橙色陶器的变异性和晚期古代贝丘相互作用的社会规模

• 批准号: 1302813
• 负责人: Kenneth Sassaman
• 金额: $ 2.33万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1302813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Places; Gathering

Under the guidance of Dr. Kenneth Sassaman, Zackary Gilmore will analyze ancient pottery from Florida to investigate the role of large-scale, monumental places in facilitating social interaction among culturally diverse groups of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Important archaeological places exist worldwide where disparate groups gathered together for purposes of exchange, ritual, and monument construction. Frequently, the interaction fostered by these places produced new types of social formations and affected the historical trajectories of entire regions. Between 7200 and 3500 years ago, the inhabitants of Florida's St. Johns River Valley built dozens of mounds out of freshwater shellfish remains. Evidence suggests that these places were at the center of pivotal regional developments including the construction of early monumental architecture, the adoption of pottery technology, and the establishment of sedentism and distinct tribal identities. Despite this fact, little agreement has been reached regarding even their most basic functions and meanings within the societies that built and inhabited them. This research is designed to identify the types and scales of social interaction engaged in during the construction and use of shell mounds at the Silver Glen Run (SGR) complex in northeast Florida. Occupied for most of the past 7,000 years, between 2,500 and 2,000 B.C., this complex's inhabitants constructed two of the region's largest shell mounds and deposited hundreds of pottery vessels associated with one of the continent's earliest ceramic technologies. To better understand the economic and social importance of the complex, this project employs two complementary types of pottery analysis. First, related sourcing techniques (Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis [INAA] and petrography) will be used to characterize the chemical and mineralogical constituents of the SGR sherds. Comparing these results to clay reference samples with known source locations will help determine the geographic origins of the various constituent groups who gathered at SGR. Second, technological and stylistic analysis will reveal the intended functions (cooking, serving, storage, etc.) for which vessels were manufactured, along with the social conditions (e.g., small domestic meal vs. large communal feast) in which they were used. Together, these analyses provide the opportunity to gain a more nuanced understanding of the role played by this and similar sites in the social histories of Florida's prehistoric hunter-gatherers.Beyond its direct archaeological significance, this research contributes to undergraduate education by providing opportunities for volunteer participation in the sorting and cataloging of archaeological pottery. It is also inter-institutional in nature, bringing together resources and expertise from three public research institutions, as well as a private organization. Technological analysis will be conducted at the University of Florida (UF). The petrographic analysis will be conducted at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) and INAA at the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center. All of these will make use of extant collections at the FLMNH. In addition, this research will compile and analyze data that will be disseminated to public and private organizations on whose land the Silver Glen Run complex is located. Results of the investigations will be made available in the form of presentations, technical reports, and other printed materials that will make the institutions more knowledgeable and effective stewards of the considerable archaeological resources under their control. Results and raw data will also be made publicly available on the LSA website (http://www.anthro.ufl.edu/LSA/).

在肯尼思·萨萨曼（Kenneth Sassaman）博士的指导下，扎卡里·吉尔莫尔（Zackary Gilmore）将分析佛罗里达州的古代陶器，调查大规模，巨大的地方在促进史前猎人采集者群体之间促进社会互动方面的作用。 重要的考古场所存在于世界各地，在那里，不同的群体聚集在一起是为了交流，礼节和纪念碑的建设。通常，这些地方培养的互动产生了新型的社会形态，并影响了整个地区的历史轨迹。在7200年至3500年前，佛罗里达州圣约翰斯河谷的居民还从淡水贝类中建造了数十个土墩。 有证据表明，这些地方是关键区域发展的中心，包括建设早期纪念性建筑，采用陶器技术以及建立地和独特的部落身份。 尽管事实这一事实，甚至几乎没有达成关于他们在建立和居住的社会中最基本的职能和含义的共识。 这项研究旨在确定在佛罗里达州东北部的Silver Glen Run（SGR）综合体的壳土丘中所进行的社交互动的类型和规模。 在过去的7，000年的大部分时间里，该综合大部分时间在2500至2,000年之间被占领，该综合大楼的居民建造了该地区最大的壳丘，并存放了数百艘与该大陆最早的陶瓷技术之一相关的陶器。 为了更好地理解综合体的经济和社会重要性，该项目采用了两种互补的陶器分析。 首先，相关的采购技术（仪器中子激活分析[INAA]和岩石学）将用于表征SGR Sherds的化学和矿物学成分。 将这些结果与已知源位置的粘土参考样品进行比较将有助于确定聚集在SGR的各种组成组的地理起源。 其次，技术和风格分析将揭示制造船只的预期功能（烹饪，服务，存储等），以及使用它们所使用的社会条件（例如，小型家庭用餐与大型公共盛宴）。 这些分析共同提供了一个机会，可以使对佛罗里达州史前猎人的社会历史中所扮演的角色更加细微差别地理解。BEYOND的直接考古学意义，这项研究通过为志愿者参与考古学的分类和分解而提供机会，从而为本科教育提供了机会。它本质上也是机构间的，从三个公共研究机构以及一个私人组织中汇集了资源和专业知识。技术分析将在佛罗里达大学（UF）进行。岩石学分析将在佛罗里达自然历史博物馆（FLMNH）和密苏里大学研究反应堆中心的INAA进行。所有这些都将利用FLMNH的现存收藏。此外，这项研究将编译和分析数据，这些数据将被传播到银Glen Run Complex所在的土地上的公共和私人组织。调查结果将以演讲，技术报告和其他印刷材料的形式提供，这将使机构在其控制下的大量考古资源中更加知识渊博，有效的管家。结果和原始数据也将在LSA网站（http://www.anthro.ufl.edu/lsa/）上公开提供。