Development of a Pacific Paleoethnobotanical Facility

太平洋古民族植物学设施的开发

• 批准号: 9505917
• 负责人: Melinda Allen
• 金额: $ 4.39万
• 依托单位: Bernice P Bishop Museum
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-01 至 1997-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9505917&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Pacific; Paleoethnobotanical; Facility

Allen With National Science Foundation support, Drs. Melinda Allen and Heidi Lennstrom will expand the archaeobotanical research laboratory located at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Hawaii. They will hire a technician to help to prepare and process samples and will purchase both a new flotation device and photographic equipment. Because botanical materials are usually lighter than their surrounding earthen matrix, it is possible to use water separation to collect them. A larger device will increase the productivity of the laboratory. Photographs permit the production of guides or keys which can facilitate identification at the Bishop and also be used by other laboratories. Botanical remains are often preserved in archaeological sites in Oceania. Few archaeologists are qualified to identify such materials however and the development of a specialized laboratory will further research in a number of areas. Botanical remains serve two principal goals because they provide insight into both the nature of prehistoric environments and human use of it. Archaeological deposits often include both plants used by prehistoric inhabitants and other remains which are accidently incorporated into the sediments. With such information, it is possible to reconstruct how different human populations subsisted and made use of their environments. It is also possible to understand how people affected these environments and how they changed over time. Many islands in the Pacific have been occupied for thousands of years and provide excellent laboratories to study human-environment interactions. This research is important because it will help to provide an important archaeological service. It will increase our understanding of human behavior and how people and environments interact over time.

艾伦在国家科学基金会的支持下，博士。梅琳达·艾伦（Melinda Allen）和海蒂·伦斯特罗姆（Heidi Lennstrom）将扩大位于夏威夷伯尼斯·P·毕晓普博物馆的考古研究实验室。 他们将聘请技术人员来帮助准备和处理样品，并购买新的浮选设备和摄影设备。由于植物材料通常比周围的泥土矩阵较轻，因此可以使用水分离来收集它们。较大的设备将提高实验室的生产率。照片允许生产指南或钥匙，这些指南或钥匙可以促进主教身份证，并由其他实验室使用。 植物残留物通常保存在大洋洲的考古遗址中。但是，很少有考古学家有资格确定此类材料，但是，专业实验室的发展将在许多领域进行进一步研究。植物遗骸实现了两个主要目标，因为它们可以洞悉史前环境的本质和人类对其的使用。 考古沉积物通常包括史前居民使用的两种植物和其他遗体，这些植物不小心纳入沉积物中。有了这样的信息，可以重建不同的人群如何依赖和利用其环境。还可以了解人们如何影响这些环境以及它们如何随着时间的流逝而发生变化。太平洋的许多岛屿已经占领了数千年，并提供了研究人类环境相互作用的出色实验室。 这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于提供重要的考古服务。它将增加我们对人类行为的理解以及人们和环境如何随着时间的推移互动。