REU Site: Ifugao Archaeological Project

REU 遗址：伊富高考古项目

基本信息

批准号：
1460665
负责人：
Stephen Acabado
金额：
$ 15.91万
依托单位：
University of California-Los Angeles
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-06-01 至 2017-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460665&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
REU Site Ifugao Archaeological Project

项目摘要

This project is supported under the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program, which is an NSF-wide program although each Directorate administers its own REU Site competition. This program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in an effort to introduce them to scientific research so as to encourage their continued engagement in the nation's scientific research and development enterprise. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects designed especially for the purpose. The REU program is a major contributor to the NSF's goal of developing a diverse, internationally competitive, and globally-engaged science and engineering workforce. The Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) sciences Directorate awarded this REU Site grant to the University of California-Los Angeles in order to enhance undergraduate experience in scientific methods and analyses in a long-term research project at the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ifugao, Philippines. Students in this REU program are actively involved in investigating highland economic and political responses to the arrival of the Spanish in the northern Philippines. As an REU Site, the project recruits junior- and senior-level undergraduates from a wide-range of backgrounds, home institutions, ages, gender, and ethnicity, with emphasis on under-represented and female students. The PI-team strives to focus the recruitment on minority-serving institutions, including community colleges, by utilizing the institutional connections of the UCLA Academic Advancement Program-Center for Community College Partnerships. Students participating in the project are actively involved in the research design, data collection, and laboratory analysis of archaeologically retrieved materials. Students receive intensive training in archaeological field methods, faunal and botanical analyses, human osteology, and, artifact identification and cataloguing. Through the collaboration between UCLA (lead institution), University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Philippines, the National Museum of the Philippines, and the Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, Inc., students in this REU Site program receive intensive mentorship during and after the program.Although the Spanish failed to colonize the northern Philippine highlands, preliminary analysis of the archaeological record from Ifugao suggests drastic landscape and social transformations ensued after c. AD 1600. To determine the impacts of Spanish colonialism in highland Philippines, this research program conducts subsurface excavations, spatial modeling, and analyses of faunal and paleobotanical samples, artifacts, and human osteolical remains. The research program investigates the political and economic impacts of Spanish colonialism in highland Philippines, particularly, in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ifugao, Philippines, where the most extensive rice terraces in the world are located. Previous models suggest that the rice terraces are at least 2,000 years old. Recent archaeological information, however, indicates that the agricultural marvels were constructed after the arrival of the Spanish in the northern Philippines at c. AD 1600. In addition, rapid social and environmental change occurred in the region shortly after AD 1600. This research provides another perspective to our understanding of Spanish colonialism, which has largely focused on the Americas. The Ifugao rice terraces are rapidly deteriorating and the Ifugao people are losing both their tangible and intangible heritage to changes brought about by economic and political transformations. The rice terraces are examples of landesque and the assimilation of Ifugao social organization to that of the state together with the low status given to farmers and the rapid disappearance of traditional knowledge could further spell degradation of the terraces. One of the overarching goals of this study is to contribute to heritage conservation programs in Ifugao, in both tangible and intangible heritage. As such, this REU Site engages the community by promoting direct and active participation of descendant communities. The project also helps with the establishment of a community museum and on-site museum to complement the development of indigenous culture and history curriculum. In addition, this program aims to encourage undergraduate students to pursue STEM-related and anthropology graduate studies. The NSF International Science and Engineering (ISE) program co-funds this REU Site project.

该项目得到了本科生（REU）网站计划的研究经验，该计划是NSF范围内的一个计划，尽管每个局均管理着自己的REU网站竞争。该计划支持本科生的积极研究参与，以便将他们介绍给科学研究，以鼓励他们继续参与美国的科学研究和发展企业。 REU项目以有意义的方式参与正在进行的研究计划或专门为目的设计的研究项目中。 REU计划是NSF的主要贡献者，即建立各种各样的国际竞争力和全球的科学和工程劳动力。社会，行为和经济（SBE）科学局授予了加州洛杉矶分校的REU网站赠款，以在菲律宾Ifugao的联合国教科文组织世界遗产地点的一项长期研究项目中增强科学方法和分析的本科经验。此REU计划的学生积极参与调查西班牙北部菲律宾北部的高地经济和政治反应。作为REU网站，该项目从广泛的背景，家庭机构，年龄，性别和种族中招募了初级和高级本科生，重点是代表性不足和女学生。 PI-Team致力于通过利用UCLA学术进步计划中心的机构联系，以社区大学合作伙伴关系来将招聘集中在包括社区学院在内的少数派服务机构上。参加该项目的学生积极参与研究设计，数据收集和考古检索材料的实验室分析。学生接受了考古领域方法，动物和植物分析，人骨学以及人工制品识别和分类的深入培训。通过加州大学洛杉矶分校（主要机构），华盛顿大学，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，菲律宾大学，菲律宾大学，菲律宾国家博物馆和Save ifugao Terraces运动，Inc。，该REU网站计划中的学生在计划期间和之后获得密集的指导。 c之后随后发生了巨大的景观和社会转变。公元1600年。为了确定西班牙殖民主义在菲律宾高地的影响，该研究计划进行了地下发掘，空间建模以及对动物和古生物样本，人工制品和人类骨骨遗体的分析。该研究计划调查了西班牙殖民主义在菲律宾高地的政治和经济影响，尤其是在菲律宾Ifugao的联合国教科文组织世界遗产，世界上最广泛的水稻露台所在的地方。以前的型号表明，水稻露台至少有2000年的历史。然而，最近的考古信息表明，农业奇迹是在西班牙北部菲律宾北部c的到来后建造的。公元1600年。此外，公元1600年后不久，该地区发生了迅速的社会和环境变化。这项研究为我们对西班牙殖民主义的理解提供了另一种观点，该观点主要集中在美洲。 Ifugao大米露台迅速恶化，Ifugao人民既将其切实和无形的遗产都失去了经济和政治转型带来的变化。水稻露台是兰德斯克式的例子，也是Ifugao社会组织与国家的同化，以及对农民的地位低下，传统知识的迅速消失可能会进一步破坏露台。这项研究的总体目标之一是在有形和无形的遗产中为Ifugao的遗产保护计划做出贡献。因此，该REU网站通过促进后代社区的直接和积极参与来吸引社区。该项目还有助于建立社区博物馆和现场博物馆，以补充土著文化和历史课程的发展。此外，该计划旨在鼓励大学生攻读与STEM有关的人类学研究生研究。 NSF国际科学与工程（ISE）计划共同资助了REU网站项目。