Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Agricultural Labor Organizations and Management

博士论文进步奖：农业劳动组织与管理

• 批准号: 2052932
• 负责人: Xinyi Liu
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 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: 2021-02-01 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2052932&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Agricultural

In this doctoral dissertation research project researchers will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate millet cultivation and food preparation strategies during a multi-period site organization. By combining paleoethnobotanical and isotopic studies, the team seeks to understand the dynamic of interplay between subsistence strategies and social relations in the field and in the domestic context at multiple localities. The research question is twofold. Was the millet harvest shared within or between households, or both? Were farming practices determined on the household level, the communal level, or a combination of the two? In answering these questions, the project connects with broader anthropological issues, namely, the moral and social nature of food habits and food production. While much of the thematic discussion on the social use of food draws on contemporary and historical examples, this study examines the dimension of daily food performance in archaeological contexts. In order to test hypotheses about millet production and consumption, the research team will employ two principal methods: (a) macrofossil crop processing analysis; and (b) stable isotopic analysis performed on plant remains. These measurements build on significant improvements in sample preparation and methodological refinements in recent years, and their successful applications in archaeological contexts in a range of markedly different environments. The project will expand the understanding of regional farming practices in a global context. This project aims to raise awareness of the past, present and future utility of millet, to understand the nature of primary producers of this crop and their societies, and to situate their role in the broader trajectory of human agricultural systems on a global scale.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.

在这项博士学位论文中，研究项目将采用多学科的方法来研究多周期现场组织期间的小米种植和食物准备策略。通过结合古河母植物学和同位素研究，该团队试图了解该领域和在多个地区的国内背景下的生存策略与社会关系之间的相互作用的动态。研究问题是双重的。小米收获是在家庭之间或家庭之间或两者之间共享的吗？是在家庭一级，公共层面还是两者组合确定的农业实践？在回答这些问题时，该项目与更广泛的人类学问题联系在一起，即粮食习惯和粮食生产的道德和社会性质。尽管关于食物的社会使用的许多主题讨论都借鉴了当代和历史例子，但本研究研究了考古背景下日常食品表现的维度。为了检验有关小米生产和消费的假设，研究团队将采用两种主要方法：（a）大型修物作物加工分析； （b）在植物残留物上进行的稳定同位素分析。这些测量基于近年来样本制备和方法学改进的显着改善，以及它们在各种不同环境中的考古环境中的成功应用。该项目将在全球背景下扩大对区域农业实践的理解。该项目旨在提高对小米的过去，现在和未来的认识，了解该作物及其社会的主要生产者的本质，并将其在全球范围内的人类农业系统的更广泛轨迹中置于更广泛的轨迹中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的智力效果和广泛的评估来评估NSF的法定任务，并具有值得的评估。

项目成果

Water and soil management strategies and the introduction of wheat and barley to northern China: an isotopic analysis of cultivation on the Loess Plateau

• DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.138
• 发表时间: 2022-11
• 期刊: Antiquity
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Haiming Li;Yufeng Sun;Ying Yang;Yifu Cui;Lele Ren;Hu Li;Guoke Chen;Petra Vaiglova;G. Dong;Xinyi Liu