REU Site: Northern Chaco Outliers Project in Archaeology

REU 遗址：考古学中的北查科离群项目

• 批准号: 2050402
• 负责人: Susan Ryan
• 金额: $ 27.91万
• 依托单位: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Northern; Chaco; Outliers

This project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. It has broader scientific and societal impacts in addition to integrating undergraduate research and education. This REU Sites award to the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center supports authentic archaeological research for 10 undergraduate students from underserved populations over the course of seven weeks spanning three years (30 total students). Students actively engage in research alongside professional mentors within the framework of a long-term research project, the Northern Chaco Outliers Project. Students receive extensive preparation in STEM-based learning objectives that are necessary for future success within the discipline. This program provides students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to secure future employment within archaeology and to pursue advanced degrees, emerging as the next generation of professionals, Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, educators, and leaders within the sciences. Inferences generated about past human behavior are utilized to create a better understanding of the principles that govern culture change worldwide and to address issues relevant to today’s societies, providing critical information to guide future policy making. The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center initiated the Northern Chaco Outliers Project in 2017 with the goals of addressing important regional questions surrounding the expansion of ancestral communities in the Mesa Verde region, as well as broader anthropological research questions concerning human-environment interactions, the development of inequality/equality, the political role of community centers, and identity formation/dissolution. Although this Site has a regional focus, its results have national and global impacts. By engaging in scientific research focused on broader anthropological questions, REU students advance and share knowledge of the human past and contribute to cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research surrounding human actions in the past, present, and future.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.

该项目部分由国家科学基金会的本科生研究经验（REU）站点计划在社会，行为和经济科学局中提供资金。除了整合本科研究和教育外，它还具有更广泛的科学和社会影响。该REU网站授予Crow Canyon考古中心颁发的奖项为10周的七个星期（总计30名学生）提供了来自服务不足人群的10名本科生的真实档案。学生在一个长期研究项目北部Chaco Outliers项目的框架内积极与专业导师一起进行研究。学生在基于STEM的学习对象中获得广泛的准备，这对于未来在学科中取得成功所必需的必要。该计划为学生提供必要的知识，技能和能力，以确保考古学中的未来就业并攻读高级学位，并成为下一代专业人士，部落历史保护官员，教育工作者和科学领导者的下一代。对过去的人类行为产生的推论被用来更好地理解世界范围内文化变化的原则，并解决与当今社会相关的问题，提供关键信息来指导未来的政策制定。乌鸦峡谷考古中心于2017年启动了北部查科（Chaco Outliers）项目，其目标是解决围绕梅萨维尔德地区祖先社区扩展的重要区域问题，以及有关人类环境相互作用的更广泛的人类学研究问题，使人类与人类互动，使人平等的发展，政治/平等的角色，社区和确定性的政治角色，以及确定性的形式和确定性/身份。尽管该站点有区域重点，但其结果具有国家和全球影响。通过参与科学研究的重点是更广泛的人类学问题，REU学生可以提高和分享对人类过去的知识，并为过去，现在和未来的跨文化和跨学科研究做出了贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为珍贵的支持。