Expansion of the Arizona State University Teotihuacan Storage Facility

亚利桑那州立大学特奥蒂瓦坎存储设施扩建

• 批准号: 1917497
• 负责人: Jesse Casana
• 金额: $ 14.58万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1917497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expansion; Arizona; State; University; Teotihuacan

The Basin of Mexico, today home to Mexico City, has been one of the most urbanized places in the world for 2,000 years and is a key region to investigate the origins and development of states and cities. The Basin of Mexico settlement pattern survey led by Drs. Jeffrey Parsons (University of Michigan) and William T. Sanders (Penn State) stands as one of the most important regional studies of modern archaeology. The survey has served as a model for regional settlement pattern projects in other parts of Mesoamerica, including Michael Smith's survey of the Yautepec Valley in Morelos. This project will organize, conserve, and make more accessible the survey collections for future scientific research. The Basin of Mexico and Yautepec surveys together recorded over 4,500 sites, including in the core of the Aztec empire. Many of the sites have since been obscured or destroyed by urban growth and agricultural activities. The maintenance of archaeological collections is crucial as they comprise the material record of excavations and surveys and are themselves part of the archaeological record of the human past. Artifact collections and records are an on-going database for scientific studies with new methods and techniques. Analysis of collections also can conserve and help manage sites for future investigations. In Central Mexico urban growth, construction, and other land use changes have destroyed or obscured many prehispanic and Early Colonial sites, making these collections irreplaceable. Dr. Deborah Nichols, Dartmouth College and colleagues from Arizona State University will provide for the long-term access and management of the survey collections as irreplaceable scientific data by 1. Developing storage space at the ASU Teotihuacan Research Laboratory to archive the collections there for future research and education; 2. Organizing and creating a catalog of the collections of surface artifacts from the Basin of Mexico; and 3. Integrating the artifacts from the surveys with the master collections inventory of the ASU Teotihuacan Research Lab to facilitate future research.Archiving and analyzing the collections addresses several areas identified by the National Science Foundation as priorities. This project will enhance the infrastructure for research and education. The primary goal of this project is preserving and making more accessible archaeological survey collections from the Basin of Mexico and the Yautepec Valley as key scientific data for future research and education, by developing space to house them at an established institution. This project will improve the public understanding of science. These data document major historical changes in human societies of broad public interest: the adoption of agriculture and establishment of village lifeway, the formation of the first cities and states in Central Mexico, and the "rise and fall" of empires. The proposed work will also increase the participation of diverse categories of people in science. Analyses of the survey data and collections have provided numerous educational opportunities for students and early career archaeologists, including U.S., Mexican, and other foreign personnel; women and men; and many individuals with U.S. protected minority status. Information from the surveys also is used in heritage. planning, and museum exhibitions. These public outreach activities will be continued and enhanced with the better access to the collections provided by the ASU Teotihuacan Research Lab.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

墨西哥盆地今天是墨西哥城，一直是世界上城市中最城市化的地方之一，已有2000年的历史，是调查国家和城市的起源和发展的关键地区。墨西哥定居模式调查的盆地由Drs领导。杰弗里·帕森斯（Jeffrey Parsons）（密歇根大学）和威廉·桑德斯（William T. Sanders）（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）是现代考古学最重要的区域研究之一。该调查已成为中美洲其他地区的区域和解模式项目的模型，包括迈克尔·史密斯（Michael Smith）对莫雷洛斯（Morelos）的Yautepec山谷的调查。该项目将组织，保护并使调查收集更加易于访问，以供未来的科学研究。墨西哥和Yautepec的盆地共同记录了4,500多个地点，其中包括阿兹台克帝国的核心。此后，许多地点被城市增长和农业活动所掩盖或摧毁。考古收藏的维护至关重要，因为它们构成了发掘和调查的物质记录，并且本身就是人类过去考古记录的一部分。工件收集和记录是使用新方法和技术的科学研究的持续数据库。收集分析还可以保护并帮助管理站点以进行未来的调查。在墨西哥中部的城市增长中，建筑和其他土地使用变化已经破坏或掩盖了许多前和早期殖民地地点，使这些收藏不可替代。亚利桑那州立大学达特茅斯学院和同事Deborah Nichols博士将提供调查收藏的长期访问和管理，作为1。开发在ASU Teotihuacan研究实验室的存储空间，以归档在那里的收藏集，以供未来的研究和教育； 2。组织和创建来自墨西哥盆地的表面伪影集的目录； 3。将调查中的工件与ASU Teotihuacan Research Lab的主要收藏库清单整合在一起，以促进未来的研究。构建和分析这些收藏量解决了国家科学基金会确定的几个领域。该项目将增强研究和教育的基础设施。该项目的主要目的是通过开发空间来保存墨西哥盆地和Yautepec山谷的更容易获得的考古调查收藏，作为未来研究和教育的关键科学数据，通过开发空间来将其安置在既定机构中。该项目将提高公众对科学的理解。这些数据记录了广泛公共利益的人类社会的主要历史变化：采用农业和建立乡村生命之道，墨西哥中部的第一个城市和国家的形成以及帝国的“兴衰”。拟议的工作还将增加各种各样的人参与科学。对调查数据和收集的分析为学生和早期职业考古学家（包括美国，墨西哥人和其他外国人员）提供了许多教育机会；女人和男人；以及许多具有美国保护少数群体地位的人。调查中的信息也用于遗产。计划和博物馆展览。这些公共宣传活动将继续并增强，以更好地获得ASU Teotihuacan Research Lab提供的收藏。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。