Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Establishment of Long Term Group Interaction Relationships

博士论文改进补助金：建立长期小组互动关系

• 批准号: 2313480
• 负责人: Richard Burger
• 金额: $ 2.55万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2313480&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Establishment; Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Establishment

As areas with an unusually high degree of interaction between peoples participating in different cultures, borderlands have been of interest to scholars of many disciplines. However, most research has focused on situations in which borders are already defined and present, as well as interactions involving at least one state or empire. This research trend leaves several issues poorly understood, including: the influence of already existing forms and contexts of interaction on the development of a border, the role of borderlanders, and the entanglement of social groups through interaction in zones of contact. This project leverages archaeology’s unique access to data on human actions over long periods of time to investigate the fluid creation and deconstruction of borders as scales of social interaction change. By focusing on a pre-state context, this project highlights conceptual tension in the social sciences between what is and is not a border, encouraging reflection on cross-border interactions in the strictly bordered world of today. The results of the project are shared with inhabitants of the nearby modern communities as well as the international academic community, providing the vital data needed to reconsider our understanding of long-term borderland interactions.In this doctoral dissertation project the research team investigates the intersection of social interaction and the formation and deconstruction of borders in in a region in which interaction has persisted for centuries. The boundary persists until the current time. However the sharing of technologies and styles of decoration of material culture, across both regions suggests cross-border interactions must have occurred with some frequency. This project examines recently excavated public architecture, ceramics, and non-local materials to test models of the intersection between the creation and maintenance of borderlands and cross-border interaction. The multi-scalar, multi-disciplinary approach emphasizes the union of archaeological expertise and specialized analysis: the project weaves together stylistic and technological analysis of ceramics and architecture; petrographic and chemical sourcing of ceramics; aDNA and isotopic analysis of camelid remains; radiocarbon dating of organic remains; and chemical and habitat sourcing of other non-local materials to clarify the presence or absence and characteristics of the border as well as its manifestation at a local scale during its first supposed appearance.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.

作为参与不同文化的人们之间异常高度相互作用的地区，许多学科的学者感兴趣。但是，大多数研究都集中在已经定义和存在边界的情况下，以及涉及至少一个州或帝国的互动。这一研究趋势使几个问题理解不足，包括：已经存在的互动形式和环境对边界发展，边境人的作用以及通过接触区域中的互动来纠缠社会群体的影响。该项目利用档案库档案学对人类行为的独特访问，以研究人类行动的数据，以研究边界的流体创造和解构，作为社会互动变化的尺度。通过关注国家的环境，该项目强调了事物与不是边界之间社会科学的概念张力，鼓励对当今严格边界世界中跨境互动的反思。该项目的结果与近现代社区以及国际学术界的影响者共享，提供了重新考虑我们对长期边境互动的理解所需的重要数据。在这个博士学位论文项目中，研究小组研究团队研究了社会互动的相互作用，以及在该区域中持续互动的边界的形成和解构，该区域持续存在互动。边界一直存在直到当前时间。但是，在两个区域之间的技术共享和材料文化装饰风格的共享表明，跨境相互作用必须以某种频率发生。该项目考试最近挖掘了公共建筑，陶瓷和非本地材料，以测试边境地区创建与维护与跨境互动之间相交的模型。多尺度的多学科方法强调了档案专业知识和专业分析的结合：该项目将陶瓷和建筑的风格和技术分析共同编织；陶瓷的岩石学和化学采购； ADNA和同位素分析仍然存在；保留有机的放射性碳年代；以及其他非本地材料的化学和栖息地采购，以阐明边界的存在，不存在和特征及其在其首次预期出现期间以当地规模表现出来。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和广泛影响的评估来评估的珍贵支持。