Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Chronologically Related Changes in Material Culture Composition

博士论文改进奖：物质文化构成的时间相关变化

• 批准号: 2040074
• 负责人: Kenneth Sassaman
• 金额: $ 3.02万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-15 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Chronologically

This doctoral dissertation research project will examine the factors underlying long term social change. It will use geochemical, petrographic, and other technical data derived from pottery along the northern Gulf Coast of Florida to examine social changes associated with the abandonment of large size settlements in which people lived. Judging from the diversity of settlement and pottery technology that followed, social outcomes varied. The objective of this research is to determine the extent to which these changes involved social movements. Social movements in the modern world are often the impetus for transformative social change, including those which are often called "collapse." However recent scholarship on societal collapse has illuminated how social groups in fact can enact structural change through deliberate collective action, a curative to the bias that collapse was necessarily a matter of failure or "devolution" of society. In its emphasis on materiality and the material conditions of human experience, study of the past holds good potential for contributing to the cross-cultural study of social movements well beyond the reach of ethnography, sociology, and literary history.Pottery from 12 sites across the study area will provide data on clay provenance (neutron activation analysis), composition (petrography), manufacture and use (technofunctional analysis), and surface treatment (stylistic analysis) as analytical proxies for social identity and affiliation. Pottery from sites spanning the period of abandonment and resettlement varies wildly with respect to surface treatment and vessel form, Provenance and compositional data may be equally variable, but this is not yet known. Compositional data embody choices for clays and aplastic additives that carry the weight of tradition inconspicuously, and are thus possibly indicative of shared practices that took form over generations of co-residency of potters at civic-ceremonial centers and then continued into the ensuing centuries of dispersed settlement. As the samples for this project are drawn from sites on public lands that are vulnerable to the negative effects of rising seas, this research will contribute to federal mandates for the inventory, assessment, and conservation of archaeological sites. Furthermore, this research will: (1) contribute to ongoing archaeological critique of popular "collapse" narratives and the development of alternatives based on empirical studies; (2) add information concerning a period of time that is poorly understood in the area and throughout the southeastern United States; and (3) provide case material to the growing body of studies on the archaeological signatures and material implications of social movements.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.

该博士学位论文研究项目将研究长期社会变革的基础因素。它将使用佛罗里达州北部墨西哥湾沿岸的陶器的地球化学，岩石学和其他技术数据来检查与放弃人们居住的大型定居点相关的社会变化。 从随后的定居和陶器技术的多样性来看，社会成果各不相同。这项研究的目的是确定这些变化涉及社会运动的程度。现代世界中的社会运动通常是变革性社会变革的动力，包括通常被称为“崩溃”的社会变革。但是，最近关于社会崩溃的奖学金已经阐明了社会群体实际上如何通过故意集体行动来实现结构性变革，这是解决偏见的一种治疗方法，即崩溃必然是社会失败或“权力下放”的问题。在重点是物质性和人类经验的物质条件时，对过去的研究具有良好的潜力，可以为社会运动的跨文化研究贡献远远超出人种学，社会学和文学史的影响范围。研究领域的12个地点的pottery将提供有关粘土来源（中子激活分析），分析（PETRogruption），技术分析（Petrogyse），技术分析（Petrogyse），技术分析（Petrogyse），技术分析（PETRogyse），技术分析（PETRogrusion），技术分析（PETRogyse），技术分析（技术），技术。社会身份和隶属关系的代理。跨越遗弃期和安置的地点的陶器在表面处理和血管形式，出处和组成数据方面差异很大，但这尚不清楚。组成数据体现了粘土和质感添加剂的选择，这些选择不明显地表现出传统的重量，因此可能表明了共同的做法，这些做法是在公民宣传中心的几代陶艺家共同居住的形式，然后继续进入渐进的几个世纪的分散定居点。由于该项目的样本来自容易受到上升海洋负面影响的公共土地上的地点，因此这项研究将有助于对考古遗址的库存，评估和保护的联邦授权。此外，这项研究将：（1）有助于对流行的“崩溃”叙述以及基于经验研究的替代方案的发展的持续考古批评； （2）添加有关在该地区及其整个美国东南部的一段时间的信息； （3）为越来越多的有关社会运动的考古签名和物质含义的研究提供了案例材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。