It Takes a (Big) Village: Preserving the Legacy of Pueblo Grande

Archaeology can marshal new digital infrastructure not simply to rescue endangered legacy information, but to revive and enhance those data for innovative research approaches. Over the course of two decades, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI), collected vast amounts of archaeological information and digital data during the company’s work at Pueblo Grande, one of the largest and most centrally-located of the Classic period Hohokam villages in the Salt River Valley. This poster highlights efforts to reawaken SSI’s invaluable archaeological data and physical collections from Pueblo Grande, and collaborations toward synthesizing these resources incredible research potential for Southwestern archaeology. It describes an ongoing initiative that uses the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) to reconstruct and publish aggregated digital data sets for much of SSI’s data recovery projects at Pueblo Grande. In addition, it discusses Pueblo Grande Museum’s endeavors to work with recently donated physical collections from SSI’s projects on privately-owned parcels of the site and to tie those collections to the digital data. Together, these efforts are integrating one of the largest bodies of data available for a single prehistoric settlement in the American Southwest to foster new understandings of Pueblo Grande and Hohokam archaeology. SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR courtesy of the Society for American Archaeology and Center for Digital Antiquity Collaborative Program to improve digital data in archaeology. If you are the author of this presentation you may upload your paper, poster, presentation, or associated data (up to 3 files/30MB) for free. Please visit http://www.tdar.org/SAA2015 for instructions and more information.考古学可统筹运用新型数字基础设施，不仅旨在抢救濒危的留存考古信息，更旨在活化并优化此类数据，以支撑创新性研究路径。二十余年来，土壤系统公司（Soil Systems, Inc., SSI）在其于大普韦布洛（Pueblo Grande）遗址开展的考古工作中，积累了海量考古信息与数字数据。大普韦布洛是盐河谷地区古典时期霍霍坎（Hohokam）村落中规模最大、区位最核心的史前聚落之一。本展板旨在介绍团队为活化土壤系统公司留存的大普韦布洛遗址珍贵考古数据与实物馆藏所开展的工作，以及为整合此类资源、挖掘其在北美西南考古领域的巨大研究潜力而展开的合作。本次介绍还阐述了一项正在推进的项目：该项目依托数字考古记录库（Digital Archaeological Record, tDAR），对土壤系统公司在大普韦布洛遗址开展的多数数据回收项目进行数字化重建，并发布聚合后的数据集。此外，本展板还探讨了大普韦布洛博物馆的相关工作：该馆正与相关方合作，处理土壤系统公司在遗址私有地块项目中新近捐赠的实物馆藏，并推动此类馆藏与数字数据实现关联。上述各项工作正整合北美西南地区单一处史前聚落可获取的最大体量考古数据之一，以期推动学界对大普韦布洛遗址及霍霍坎考古的全新认知。 2015年美国考古学会（Society for American Archaeology, SAA）的会议摘要依托"提升考古学数字数据质量"合作项目，由美国考古学会与古代数字中心（Center for Digital Antiquity）共同授权，在tDAR平台公开发布。若您为本展板的作者，可免费上传本人的论文、展板、演示文稿或相关数据（单次最多3个文件，总大小不超过30MB）。请访问http://www.tdar.org/SAA2015 获取详细操作指南与更多信息。