Doctoral Dissertation Research: Biocultural Responses to Forced Resettlement

博士论文研究：对强迫移民的生物文化反应

• 批准号: 2314937
• 负责人: Matthew Velasco
• 金额: $ 3.71万
• 依托单位: Cornell 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: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Biocultural; Responses

Throughout history, empires have adopted resettlement policies that forced their subjects to leave home and begin new lives in faraway lands. Forced or coerced migration remains a reality for many people today. The marginalized status of resettled peoples can make it difficult to study their experiences in both the present and the past. In ancient empires, most written accounts of resettlement come from the wealthy and powerful elites who wished to present their actions in a positive light, and forced relocation rarely leaves a clear material signature for archaeologists to study. Often, researchers have overlooked such basic questions as: how did people who were resettled adjust to their new reality? What challenges did they face? To what extent was resettlement violent? Bioarchaeology, the study of human remains from archaeological sites, provides methods and tools to gain insight into the daily life experiences of people relocated by states and empires. Since this is a doctoral dissertation research project this grant furthers the student’s academic and intellectual development. The project includes outreach to the local community.This project uses bioarchaeology to study the life experiences of one resettled community which was part of a larger process in which as many as 4,000,000 people were moved. The investigators collaborate with archaeologists to excavate parts of an associated cemetery. They employ bone geochemistry to identify who, among those buried in the cemetery, were most likely migrants in order to compare them to non-migrant individuals from the same site. They study indicators on the bones of excavated individuals to see if migrants experienced violence or high rates of disease, and if they changed their diets or forms of body adornment to conform to their new region. Comparing migrants to locals reveal what tactics were used to control resettled subjects and how resettlement shaped overall life experiences. The design of this project allows it to serve both scientific knowledge and practice by facilitating an international collaboration between women in scientific archaeology and promoting scientific understanding of state-directed resettlement within and beyond the Inka case study.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.

通过历史，帝国采取了重新安置政策，迫使他们的臣民离开家并在遥远的土地上开始新的生活。对于当今许多人来说，强迫或强迫迁移仍然是现实。重新安置的边缘化状态人们可能很难研究他们现在和过去的经历。在古老的帝国中，大多数关于安置的书面记载来自希望以积极的角度展示自己的行动的富裕而有力的精英，并且强迫搬迁很少给考古学家留下明确的物质签名。通常，研究人员忽略了这样的基本问题：被重新安置的人们如何适应其新现实？他们面临着什么挑战？重新安置暴力在多大程度上？生物考古学是从考古遗址对人类遗骸的研究，提供了方法和工具，以深入了解国家和帝国搬迁的人们的日常生活经历。由于这是一个博士学位论文研究项目，因此该赠款进一步发展了学生的学术和智力发展。该项目包括与当地社区的宣传。该项目使用生物考古学来研究一个重新安置社区的生活经验，这是一个更大过程的一部分，其中有多达400万人被搬迁。调查人员与考古学家合作挖掘了相关墓地的一部分。他们员工骨地球化学以确定谁是在墓地内建造的，最有可能是移民，以便将他们与来自同一地点的非移民个人进行比较。他们在发掘的个体的骨骼上研究指标，以查看移民是否经历了暴力或疾病率高，以及他们是否改变了自己的饮食或身体装饰形式以符合其新地区。将移民与当地人进行比较揭示了用于控制重新安置的受试者的策略以及重新安置如何塑造整体生活经验。该项目的设计使其能够通过支持科学考古学女性之间的国际合作，并促进对Inka案例研究内外的国家指导的安置的科学理解，以促进科学知识和实践。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估该基金会的知识分子和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。