Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The effect of Long Term Migration on Community Processes

博士论文改进补助金：长期移民对社区进程的影响

• 批准号: 2313219
• 负责人: Robin Beck
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2313219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; effect

This project explores the impact of immigration of politically stratified groups on local non-stratified communities during the precolonial period and focuses on the processes under which these interactions occurred. Migrations have occurred throughout human history and were as important in the past as they are today, particularly with concerns such as cultural identity, interactions between groups of people, land, and security. Along with the movement of people come not just practices and ideas, but physical bodies and objects that occupy area and space differently. The results of such massive social and cultural changes occur throughout time and space all over the world, with archaeological interest particularly focused on changes in political institutions and subsistence patterns. However, these archaeological studies in the past have often assumed that changes occur ubiquitously and unilaterally. This assumption minimizes the autonomy and agency of the local populations who are acting, interacting, and reacting to these changes and to the immigrant populations. This study examines one such shift that highlights and provides a case-study for these large-scale changes which in this case was characterized by an increase in population, sedentism, agriculture, trade networks, shared iconography and ideologies, intensified political stratification, intensified monumental construction, and the emergence and peak of chiefdoms and chiefly centers. This case relates to the impact of immigration on these local non-stratified communities and how they adapted with the arrival of the earliest agricultural peoples. The researchers focus on two archaeological sites in the same region .By focusing on evidence for local and regional-scale transformations, this project provides unique insights into the social and political processes and practices that defined the spread of the agricultural lifeway. The researchers evaluate several interrelated domains of archaeological data including subsistence, crafting, site organization, and regional organization from these sites before, during, and after evidence of agriculture appears. One goal is to determine whether local people welcomed this new practice or actively resisted doing so. By integrating data from archaeological excavations, radiocarbon dating, botanical analyses, and museum collections this project permits the researchers to evaluate different possible models. By producing a more complete record of social and cultural practices the project informs the broader study of processes involved and variation in changes to complex socio-political phenomena such as practices of agricultural intensification and social inequality.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.

该项目探讨了前殖民时期政治分层群体的移民对当地非分层社区的影响，并重点关注这些相互作用发生的过程。移民贯穿人类历史，无论在过去还是在今天都同样重要，特别是在文化认同、人群之间的互动、土地和安全等方面。伴随着人们的移动而来的不仅仅是实践和想法，还有占据不同面积和空间的身体和物体。如此大规模的社会和文化变革的结果发生在世界各地的时空中，考古学的兴趣尤其集中在政治制度和生存模式的变化上。然而，过去的这些考古研究常常假设变化是普遍存在的、单方面发生的。这种假设最大限度地减少了当地居民的自主权和代理权，他们对这些变化和移民人口采取行动、互动和反应。这项研究探讨了这样一个转变，它强调并为这些大规模的变化提供了案例研究，在这种情况下，这些变化的特点是人口的增加、定居、农业、贸易网络、共享的图像和意识形态、政治分层的加剧、巨大的影响的加剧。酋邦和酋长中心的建设、出现和鼎盛。这个案例涉及移民对这些当地无分层社区的影响以及他们如何适应最早农业民族的到来。研究人员关注同一地区的两个考古遗址。通过关注当地和区域规模转变的证据，该项目为定义农业生活方式传播的社会和政治进程和实践提供了独特的见解。研究人员评估了考古数据的几个相互关联的领域，包括这些遗址在农业证据出现之前、期间和之后的生存、手工艺、遗址组织和区域组织。一个目标是确定当地人是否欢迎这种新做法还是积极抵制这样做。通过整合考古发掘、放射性碳测年、植物分析和博物馆藏品的数据，该项目允许研究人员评估不同的可能模型。通过对社会和文化实践进行更完整的记录，该项目为对复杂社会政治现象（例如农业集约化和社会不平等实践）所涉及的过程和变化的更广泛研究提供了信息。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。