Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Role of Long-Distance Exchange in the Emergence of Social Complexity

博士论文改进奖：远距离交流在社会复杂性出现中的作用

• 批准号: 1744218
• 负责人: Richard Burger
• 金额: $ 2.43万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744218&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Role

Michelle Young, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, will investigate how interregional interaction between discrete societies affects sociopolitical development. The primary focus of this research is interaction through long-distance exchange networks, however; the investigation will also consider the spread of religious practices and the formation of new pan-regional social identities in processes of social and cultural change. Archaeological research is uniquely poised to examine the relationship between exchange and other forms of interaction in the processes which led to social complexity by revealing how these factors played out in ancient societies. What and how do societies "borrow" from one another, and what impact does outside influence have on local decision-making and development? Although this study examines one particular case study in prehistory, it contextualizes its findings using models such as globalization which are relevant to the way one understands the current, increasingly more interconnected world. The project has already had significant impacts on the local community at the field site by providing employment and education opportunities for rural women and students. The professional training and development of multiple international students and research opportunities for interested students and investigators will also be made possible through this investigation. Results from this project will form the basis of two Ph.D. dissertations and several conference papers and publicationsYoung will compare changes in sociopolitical organization and long-distance interaction through time at the ancient town of Atalla, located in a peripheral region of Peruvian highlands. This research will examine interaction by identifying imported and exported goods through chemical and geological sourcing of obsidian, petrographic and stylistic analyses of ceramics and chemical identification of cinnabar, a locally available mineral pigment. The study will also examine non-commercial influence at Atalla through cross-cultural comparisons of architecture and domestic and ceremonial practices. These diverse lines of evidence of interaction will converge with evidence of a complex settlement, the establishment of monumental architecture, and emergence of social differentiation, allowing investigators to detect causal relationships if and where they exist. The investigation will clarify the role of interregional interaction in the development of local complex social arrangements.

米歇尔·杨（Michelle Young），博士学位耶鲁大学的候选人将调查离散社会之间的区域间相互作用如何影响社会政治发展。但是，这项研究的主要重点是通过长距离交换网络进行交互。调查还将考虑宗教实践的传播以及在社会和文化变革过程中形成新的泛区域社会身份。考古研究是独特的准备，可以通过揭示这些因素如何在古代社会中表现出来，从而研究了导致社会复杂性的交换与其他形式的互动之间的关系。社会如何互相“借用”，外部影响对当地决策和发展产生什么影响？尽管本研究研究了一项特定的史前案例研究，但它使用诸如全球化之类的模型将其发现与人们了解当前（越来越互连的世界）的方式相关。该项目已经通过为农村妇女和学生提供就业和教育机会，对现场现场的当地社区产生了重大影响。通过这项调查，还将为感兴趣的学生和研究人员提供专业的培训和发展和研究机会。该项目的结果将构成两个博士学位的基础。论文以及几篇会议论文和出版物Young将比较社会政治组织和长途互动的变化，这是位于秘鲁高地周围地区的古老城镇阿塔拉（Atalla）的时间。这项研究将通过对陶瓷的黑曜石，岩石学和风格分析的化学和地质采购来确定进口和出口商品的相互作用。该研究还将通过建筑以及家庭和礼仪实践的跨文化比较来检查阿塔拉的非商业影响。这些不同的互动证据将与复杂定居的证据，建立纪念性建筑以及社会差异化的出现相融合，从而使研究人员能够在存在的情况下检测因果关系。调查将阐明区域间互动在当地复杂社会安排发展中的作用。

项目成果

De la montaña al mar: intercambio entre la sierra centro-sur y la costa sur durante el Horizonte Temprano

De la montaña al mar: intercambio entre la Sierra centro-sur y la Costa sur durante el Horizo​​nte Temprano

• DOI: 10.18800/boletindearqueologiapucp.201701.001
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Boletín de Arqueología PUCP
• 作者: Young, Michelle