Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Community Organization and Lithic Production

博士论文改进奖：社区组织与石器生产

• 批准号: 2223338
• 负责人: Kenichiro Tsukamoto
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 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: 2022-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2223338&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Community

This project examines the relationship between craft production and socioeconomic inequality in a rural ancient community. To this end, researchers will explore households to assess if inequality resulted from access to specialized production of stone tools. Archaeology is uniquely able to provide the time depth necessary to seek the genesis of socioeconomic inequality and within this context, this research will scrutinize its articulation with craft production. This project will train a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students in archaeological field and laboratory methods, as well as data analysis, grant writing, and conference presentations. Beyond training scholars, the project works to engage the local community in the archaeological process and the preservation of cultural heritage through site visits and talks, as well as participation in the research. Finally, the results of this research will be shared through academic presentations, journal articles, and public events to provide access to a broad audience.Craft specialization is an important social process that influences and is influenced by many other aspects of life among community members. These social and economic processes are particularly important in communities of practice. Communities of practice are defined by a collective pursuit of a particular endeavor, often a specific industry or craft. This research will expand the understanding of such communities of practice and the socioeconomic dynamics adjacent to specialized, large-scale production. To accomplish this, the project will focus on households at a single site which produced millions of stone tools that were essential for nearly all daily tasks including agriculture, construction, and food preparation. However, households in the community had varied proximities to the stone tool production areas, suggesting different relationships to the production activities. The research team will explore household compounds that form plazas in the community to identify socioeconomic differences in the material remains and activities of each. This project builds on previous surveys and excavation of the community and implements a three-phase methodological approach, targeting three plazas through 1) systematic shovel testing, 2) test excavations, and 3) extensive laboratory analyses. Analyses will first establish a chronology of the households, and then make comparisons about the access to long-distance trade goods and prestige materials, as well as the activities that occurred within each household. Results from this research will provide an important case study to understand how collective activities produce socioeconomic differences among households in communities of practice.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.

该项目研究了农村古老社区中的手工艺生产与社会经济不平等之间的关系。为此，研究人员将探索家庭，以评估是否可以使用专门生产石材工具产生不平等。 考古学具有独特的能力，可以提供寻求社会经济不平等的起源所需的时间深度，并且在这种情况下，这项研究将仔细研究其与手工艺生产的表达。该项目将在考古领域和实验室方法以及数据分析，赠款写作和会议演讲中培训各种各样的本科生和研究生。除了培训学者之外，该项目还致力于通过现场访问和谈判以及参与研究来吸引当地社区参与考古过程和文化遗产。最后，这项研究的结果将通过学术演示，期刊文章和公共活动来分享，以提供吸引广泛的受众群体。CraftPersecization是一个重要的社会过程，它会影响社区成员生活中许多其他方面的影响并受到影响。这些社会和经济过程在实践社区中尤为重要。实践社区是由集体追求特定努力（通常是特定行业或工艺的）来定义的。这项研究将扩大对这些实践社区的理解以及与专门的大规模生产相邻的社会经济动态。为此，该项目将集中在一个地点的家庭上，该站点生产了数百万个石材工具，这些工具对于几乎所有日常任务至关重要，包括农业，建筑和食物准备。但是，社区中的家庭靠近石工具生产区域，这表明与生产活动不同。研究小组将探索构成社区广场的家庭化合物，以确定每种材料遗迹和活动的社会经济差异。该项目以先前的调查和对社区进行挖掘为基础，并实施了三相方法学方法，针对三个广场至1）系统的铲子测试，2）测试发掘和3）广泛的实验室分析。分析将首先建立家庭的年表，然后对获得长距离贸易商品和声望材料以及每个家庭中发生的活动进行比较。这项研究的结果将提供一项重要的案例研究，以了解集体活动如何在实践社区中的家庭之间产生社会经济差异。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。