Collaborative Research: Reconstructing an Early Urban Landscape

合作研究：重建早期城市景观

• 批准号: 2150856
• 负责人: Robin Beck
• 金额: $ 7.07万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150856&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Reconstructing; Early; Urban

This research focuses on one of the United State’s earliest cities which even after decades of professional fieldwork and analysis some of the most fundamental facts of its growth and organization remain unclear. Current models suggest that in little more than a century it attracted large numbers of immigrants from elsewhere in the Midcontinent and became the preeminent center in all North America. Drawing on theoretical approaches the project seeks to explore its trajectory of growth as the making of an urban landscape. Yet understanding urbanism requires large-scale spatial data on the growth of such centers in the early years of their development. To address this problem, the research team will perform high-resolution magnetometry over the site. This massive subsurface survey will cover more than 5.5 km2 of urban landscape, making it the largest such survey ever conducted in the Americas of an archaeological site. This project will provide the first near-total geophysical survey of the subsurface. Data from the magnetometer survey, combined with rigorous GIS and geospatial analyses, will allow us to finally “see” beneath the surface from a birds-eye view, thus affording an unparalleled opportunity to compare growth with other early cases of urban formation around the world. This project will include not only the first site-wide map of the buried landscape but will also provide insights into the ways that Indigenous peoples coalesced to form the largest precolonial community in the US. The investigation will also provide a dataset of incalculable value for future planning at the site which is visited by a quarter-million visitors each year. After the project, these data will be made available to other scholars and students via the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) and a web portal hosted by the University of Michigan. The digital atlas will become the basis for future investigations within the site’s central core, forming a foundation for multi-year research projects, Ph.D. dissertations and M.A. theses, and even projects through which middle and high school students learn GIS techniques while exploring America’s first city. Through consultation with the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (SHPO), and across Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPOs), the project also promises sustained collaboration with Indigenous tribes who claim the site as an ancestral homeland. This will ensure that the opportunity and responsibility to serve as stakeholders in stewardship of these sensitive data are widely shared.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.

这项研究重点关注美国最早的城市之一，即使经过数十年的专业野外工作和分析，其增长和组织的一些最基本事实仍不清楚。目前的模型表明，在一个多世纪以来，它吸引了来自中大陆其他地方的大量移民，并成为整个北美的杰出中心。利用理论方法，该项目试图探索其增长轨迹作为城市景观的创造。然而，了解城市主义需要大规模的空间数据，以了解该中心在发展的早期。为了解决这个问题，研究团队将在站点上执行高分辨率磁力测定法。这项大规模的地下调查将覆盖超过5.5 km2的城市景观，使其成为档案馆遗址美洲有史以来最大的此类调查。该项目将对地下进行首次近乎全部的地球物理调查。来自磁力计调查的数据，再加上严格的GIS和地理空间分析，将使我们最终从鸟类视图中“看到”地面以下，从而提供了无与伦比的机会，可以将增长与世界各地的其他早期城市形成案例进行比较。该项目将不仅包括埋葬景观的第一张范围内地图，而且还将提供有关土著人民合并成构成美国最大殖民社区的方式的见解。这项投资还将为未来计划的未来计划提供不可估量的价值数据集，该网站每年访问250万访客。项目结束后，这些数据将通过数字考古记录（TDAR）和密歇根大学托管的网络门户提供给其他学者和学生。数字地图集将成为该网站中心核心未来投资的基础，为多年研究项目构成了基础，博士学位。论文以及硕士论文，甚至在探索美国第一个城市时学习GIS技术的项目。通过与伊利诺伊州历史保护局（SHPO）以及整个部落历史保护官员（THPO）的协商，该项目还承诺与土著部落持续合作，这些土著部落声称该地点是祖先的家园。这将确保在这些敏感数据的管理中充当利益相关者的机会和责任得到广泛共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估，被视为珍贵的支持。