Collaborative Research: Processes Which Guide Imperial Emergence

合作研究：指导帝国崛起的过程

• 批准号: 2345161
• 负责人: Christopher Fisher
• 金额: $ 5.3万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345161&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Processes; Guide; Imperial

The goal of this project is to gain insight into the development of past imperial society. In this collaborative project researchers examine the emergence of one such imperial formation at an archaeological site that saw the transformation from an independent city-state into a tributary city. The expansion of ancient territorial empires has historically resulted in profound changes to the material culture and daily life of such settlements, regardless of their resistance to imperial incorporation. Existing research has predominantly focused on the evidence from the pre- and post-imperial control periods in such locations. However, pre-imperial traces of socio-political organization were often purposely erased or altered with the arrival of new ideologies and strategies of empire building. This makes it difficult to understand how societies adapted or resisted to imperial incorporation. Archaeology can provide insight by looking at contexts of continuous cultural practices like places of worship, rituals, and public activities that remained undisrupted, and thus, see variations on cultural traditions and learn how people responded to imposing external ideologies and governing in the past. This research provides insights into how local ethnicities maintained, modified, or altered their traditions in the service of new political systems are pertinent for comprehending how indigenous communities respond to contemporary foreign global expansions. The team generates new comparative methods for the study of empire expansion while strengthening the relationship between current local and indigenous communities and their archaeological heritage through a collaborative research process including interpretation, community dissemination, and efforts at site conservation as well as training opportunities for archaeology students.The team will conduct a multi-year effort focused on excavation of five public religious and funerary complexes such as pyramid-plaza compounds dating to the critical window of empire formation using mortuary analyses, precise mapping with LiDAR, GPS, and photogrammetry, and several dating methods including C14, archaeomagnetism, and bone collagen. Combining excavation, mapping and lab analyses will permit tighter chronology for the site and bring new lines of evidence to understand how the empire first developed a core-region and then expanded outwards.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.

该项目的目的是洞悉过去帝国社会的发展。 在这个合作的项目中，研究人员研究了一个这样的帝国形成在考古遗址中的出现，该帝国形成从一个独立的城市国家转变为支流城市。古老的领土帝国的扩张在历史上一直导致对这种定居点的物质文化和日常生活的深刻变化，无论它们对帝国融合的抵抗如何。现有的研究主要集中在此类位置的帝国前后控制期的证据上。但是，随着新的意识形态和帝国建设策略的到来，社会政治组织的帝国前痕迹经常被故意抹去或改变。这使得很难理解社会如何适应或抵制帝国融合。考古学可以通过查看持续文化习俗的环境，例如礼拜场所，仪式和公共活动，这些环境仍然不受破坏，因此请参阅有关文化传统的变化，并了解人们如何对实现外部意识形态和过去的施加外部意识形态和统治做出反应。这项研究提供了有关当地种族如何维持，修改或改变其在新政治体系服务的传统的见解，与理解土著社区如何应对当代外国全球扩张相关。该团队通过合作研究过程，包括解释，社区传播和现场保护和考古学学生的培训机会，在加强当前地方和土著社区及其考古遗产之间的关系中生成了新的比较方法，同时加强了当前本地和土著社区及其考古遗产之间的关系该团队将进行多年的努力，重点是挖掘五个公共宗教和丧葬综合体，例如使用Mortuary分析，使用LIDAR，GPS和Potogagmmetry的精确映射到帝国形成的关键窗口，以及帝国形成的关键窗口，以及几个帝国形成的窗口，以及几个包括C14，考古学和骨胶原蛋白在内的日期方法。结合发掘，映射和实验室分析将允许对该网站进行更严格的年表，并带来新的证据，以了解帝国如何首次开发核心区域，然后向外扩展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过的支持。使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准进行评估。