Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Societal Collapse and Migration

博士论文改进奖：社会崩溃与移民

• 批准号: 1923815
• 负责人: Takeshi Inomata
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 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: 2019-08-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923815&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Societal

Jose Raul Ortiz, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, will investigate how Maya highland communities were affected by potential immigration after the abandonment of lowland centers during the 9-10th centuries. Recent research on the Terminal Classic in the Maya area shows that Maya communities were differentially affected by collapse processes and their responses were variable, including cases of disruption and abandonment, short flourishment, and resilience and transformation. Ortiz's research will focus on the detection of migration from a potential receiving end, a theme that has been addressed in other worldwide ancient migration cases but that has been minimally tracked in other Maya sub-regions. Questions about the effects of the Maya collapse, including the impact of lowland population movements, have been less frequently addressed for the highlands. The results of this research will contribute to the growing discussion on how social identity, specifically of the ancient Maya, intersects with technology, and how migrants can be detected in the archaeological record. Ortiz's work seeks to make a positive impact on the indigenous Qeqchi Maya living near the site by providing important culture-historical information from their own cultural past and promoting collaborative participation, re-ownership, and safekeeping of local cultural heritage. The results of the project seek to publicly discuss the myriad ways that Maya communities experienced the Maya collapse by contesting popular and catastrophic beliefs of this social process.Under the direction of Dr. Takeshi Inomata, Mr. Ortiz will conduct archaeological research at Kixpek, Guatemala. This ancient settlement is located at the northern edge of the highlands immediately south of the lowlands region. Funerary pottery found at the site indicates a Late Classic to Early Postclassic occupation (AD 600-1200), showing that the community lived through the Classic Maya collapse. The site of Kixpek on the Chixoy drainage presents an opportunity to examine how a highland community experienced social processes that happened during and after the Terminal Classic. Did migrants relocate among their neighbors at the northern highlands and what evidence of this migration is available at this region? Did highland ceramic technologies persist or change with the potential introduction of new social groups after the Maya collapse? Ortiz will conduct excavations in Group B and presumed habitation areas surrounding the main plaza in order to obtain pottery samples from pre- and post-Maya collapse periods of occupation. Laboratory analysis will include detailed ceramic analysis by stylistic and technological attributes through macroscopic and microscopic techniques for pottery classification. Ortiz will evaluate the continuities and changes in technological systems, specifically in pottery, obsidian, and burial practices at Kixpek, amidst the potential relocation of people after the Terminal Classic period.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.

何塞·劳尔·奥尔蒂斯，博士亚利桑那大学的候选人将调查 9-10 世纪低地中心被遗弃后，玛雅高地社区如何受到潜在移民的影响。最近对玛雅地区经典末期的研究表明，玛雅社区受到崩溃过程的影响不同，其反应也各不相同，包括破坏和废弃、短暂繁荣以及恢复和转型的情况。奥尔蒂斯的研究将集中于检测来自潜在接收端的迁徙，这一主题已在其他世界范围内的古代迁徙案例中得到解决，但在其他玛雅次区域中却很少被追踪。关于玛雅崩溃的影响的问题，包括低地人口流动的影响，对高地的影响较少得到解决。这项研究的结果将有助于日益深入地讨论社会身份，特别是古代玛雅人的社会身份，如何与技术相交叉，以及如何在考古记录中发现移民。奥尔蒂斯的工作旨在通过提供来自他们自己文化历史的重要文化历史信息并促进当地文化遗产的协作参与、重新所有权和保护，对居住在该地点附近的土著盖奇玛雅人产生积极影响。该项目的结果旨在通过质疑这一社会进程的流行和灾难性信念，公开讨论玛雅社区经历玛雅崩溃的各种方式。在Takeshi Inomata博士的指导下，奥尔蒂斯先生将在危地马拉基克斯佩克进行考古研究。这个古老的定居点位于高地的北部边缘，紧邻低地地区以南。该遗址发现的陪葬陶器显示了古典晚期到后古典早期的占领（公元 600-1200 年），表明该社区经历了古典玛雅崩溃。奇克索伊排水系统上的基克斯佩克遗址提供了一个机会来研究高地社区如何经历终端经典赛期间和之后发生的社会过程。移民是否在北部高地的邻居之间重新安置？该地区有哪些证据表明这种移民？高地陶瓷技术是持续存在还是随着玛雅崩溃后新社会群体的潜在引入而发生变化？奥尔蒂斯将在 B 组和主广场周围的推测居住区进行挖掘，以获得玛雅崩溃占领时期之前和之后的陶器样本。实验室分析将包括通过陶器分类的宏观和微观技术按风格和技术属性进行详细的陶瓷分析。 Ortiz 将评估技术系统的连续性和变化，特别是在 Kixpek 的陶器、黑曜石和埋葬实践方面，以及在经典终结期之后可能发生的人员迁移。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准。