Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Evaluating Political Competition Between Chacoan- Style Great Houses in the Southern Cibola Region, West-Central New Mexico

博士论文改进补助金：评估新墨西哥州中西部西博拉南部地区查科风格大宅之间的政治竞争

• 批准号: 1340542
• 负责人: Andrew Duff
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 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: 2013-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1340542&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Evaluating

Under the direction of Dr. Andrew Duff, and with support from the National Science Foundation, Kristin Safi's doctoral research at Washington State University will examine the degree to which localized political competition organized migrants into cooperative multi-ethnic settlements in west-central New Mexico, a unique cultural setting at the interface of two ancestral cultural traditions, the Pueblo and Mogollon. This research focuses on the A.D. 1050-1150 period, when migrants from both ancestral traditions formed multi-ethnic communities in this area centered around Chacoan-style great houses. These great houses represent scaled-down emulations of the monumental architecture found at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Chaco Canyon and the smaller great houses found throughout the Four Corners area has been argued to be a socially and/or politically integrated system of unparalleled scale in the ancient American Southwest. However, little research has investigated how great houses articulated with Chaco Canyon or the role great houses played within their local communities. This research aims to do so by evaluating how political competition between great house communities on the margins of the "Chacoan regional system" mitigated the social stresses caused by rapid population increase by groups from distinct ethnic traditions. Research on migrant integration and community organization will better frame studies of identity expression within multi-ethnic communities and will further knowledge of the interplay between group affiliation and cooperation within multi-ethnic groups, questions relevant to studying migrant integration and community identity in contemporary heterogeneous populations worldwide. This study focuses on the Largo Gap great house and its associated community. The study aims to: (1) characterize the construction and chronology of use at the Largo Gap great house; (2) characterize the Largo Gap support community, and the role of the great house within this community; (3) compare the settlement pattern around, and use of the Largo Gap great house to its two nearest neighbors, Cox Ranch Pueblo and Cerro Pomo; and (4) to explore the articulation between great houses in this region with contemporaneous great house communities across the Four Corners, which will help clarify the nature of the "Chacoan regional system." Systematic survey of lands surrounding Largo Gap and limited testing of the Largo Gap great house and associated community sites will provide the data needed to address these questions. These data, when combined with that collected by Duff at the Cox Ranch and Cerro Pomo great house communities, will permit Safi to evaluate models of political competition, multi-ethnic community integration, and great house function at local and regional scales.This research promotes a wider appreciation for archaeological science and the preservation our national heritage. It also advances increased participation of women in science by training women at all educational levels to conduct archaeological research in the field and laboratory. This project promotes engagement between academia and descendent communities through consultation and research presentations, and engages local residents through community outreach to promote increased understanding of Native American history, the conservation of heritage resources, and to foster relationships between researchers, the descendants of these ancient communities, and the region's current residents.

在安德鲁·达夫博士的指导下，并在国家科学基金会的支持下，克里斯汀·萨菲在华盛顿州立大学的博士研究将考察局部政治竞争在多大程度上将移民组织到新墨西哥州中西部的合作性多民族定居点，普韦布洛和莫戈隆这两个祖先文化传统交汇处的独特文化环境。本研究重点关注公元 1050 年至 1150 年期间，当时来自两个祖先传统的移民在该地区形成了以查科风格的大房子为中心的多民族社区。这些宏伟的房屋是对新墨西哥州查科峡谷的纪念性建筑的缩小版模仿。查科峡谷和在四角地区发现的较小的大房子被认为是古代美国西南部规模空前的社会和/或政治一体化系统。然而，很少有研究调查伟大的房屋如何与查科峡谷相连，或者伟大的房屋在当地社区中发挥的作用。本研究旨在通过评估“查科区域体系”边缘的大家族社区之间的政治竞争如何减轻来自不同民族传统的群体人口快速增长所造成的社会压力来实现这一目标。关于移民融入和社区组织的研究将更好地框架研究多民族社区内的身份表达，并将进一步了解多民族群体内的群体归属与合作之间的相互作用，以及与研究当代异质人群中的移民融入和社区身份相关的问题全世界。本研究的重点是拉戈峡大宅及其相关社区。该研究的目的是：（1）描述拉戈盖普大宅的建造和使用年代； (2) 描述 Largo Gap 支持社区的特征，以及大房子在该社区中的作用； (3) 比较周围的聚落模式，以及 Largo Gap 大宅的使用与其最近的两个邻居 Cox Ranch Pueblo 和 Cerro Pomo 的关系； （4）探索该地区的大宅与四个角落同时代的大宅社区之间的联系，这将有助于澄清“查科地区体系”的性质。对拉戈盖普周围土地的系统调查以及对拉戈盖普大宅和相关社区遗址的有限测试将提供解决这些问题所需的数据。这些数据与达夫在考克斯牧场和塞罗波莫大宅社区收集的数据相结合，将使萨菲能够评估地方和区域尺度的政治竞争、多民族社区融合和大宅功能的模型。对考古科学和保护我们的国家遗产有更广泛的认识。它还通过培训各级教育的妇女在实地和实验室进行考古研究，促进妇女更多地参与科学。该项目通过咨询和研究演示促进学术界和后裔社区之间的接触，并通过社区外展吸引当地居民，以增进对美洲原住民历史的了解，保护遗产资源，并促进研究人员与这些古代社区后裔之间的关系，以及该地区当前的居民。