Developing an AMS Radiocarbon Based Chronology for the Predynastic Egyptian Cemetery, N7000, at Naga-ed-Der

为位于 Naga-ed-Der 的前王朝埃及墓地 N7000 开发基于 AMS 放射性碳的年表

• 批准号: 9973067
• 负责人: Stephen Savage
• 金额: $ 4.76万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9973067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; AMS; Radiocarbon; Based; Chronology

With support from the National Science Foundation Dr. Stephen Savage will obtain radiocarbon dates on approximately one hundred organic samples from a Predynastic Egyptian cemetery, N7000 located at Naga-ed-Der in Upper Egypt. Excavated in the early part of this century, the materials are curated at the Hearst Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, and cover the time range from ca. 2,700 to 2,100 B.C. The cemetery contains 635 graves and ca. 900 burials as well as numerous grave goods including ceramics, woven clothing and food offerings. Samples will be dated at the University of Arizona AMS laboratory and thus only small amounts of material will be sacrificed.Although the Predynastic prehistory of Egypt is important for understanding the rise of the Egyptian empires and social complexity in general, it is surprisingly poorly dated. Traditional methods are based not on an absolute chronology anchored with radiocarbon but rather on relative seriation of ceramic styles. Gravelots from cemeteries in this region were originally seriated in the early part of the 20th century. It was assumed that graves with the most similar ceramics were most closely associated in time and through a comparison of the degree of similarity a sequence was constructed. Over wide portions of the Near East the Upper Egyptian sequence is used to date geographically dispersed sites and thus its impact is very broad. However the original and subsequent seriations have been questioned and it is important to place these ceramic styles securely in time. To understand change, archaeologists must anchor sites both absolutely and relative to each other. Dr. Savage's research will help to achieve this for a very important time period and region of the world. The results will be widely used.

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，Stephen Savage 博士将从位于上埃及 Naga-ed-Der 的前王朝埃及墓地 N7000 的大约 100 个有机样本中获得放射性碳年代测定结果。这些材料于本世纪初出土，由加州大学伯克利分校赫斯特博物馆收藏，涵盖了大约从公元前 2,700 至 2,100 年该墓地有 635 个坟墓，面积约 100 平方米。 900 个墓葬以及大量随葬品，包括陶瓷、编织衣服和食品。样品将在亚利桑那大学 AMS 实验室进行测定，因此只会牺牲少量材料。尽管埃及前王朝史前史对于理解埃及帝国的崛起和总体社会复杂性很重要，但令人惊讶的是，它的年代测定很差。传统方法不是基于以放射性碳为基础的绝对年代顺序，而是基于陶瓷风格的相对系列。该地区墓地的墓地最初是在 20 世纪早期形成的。人们假设陶瓷最相似的坟墓在时间上联系最紧密，并通过比较相似程度构建了一个序列。在近东的大部分地区，上埃及序列用于确定地理上分散的地点的年代，因此其影响非常广泛。然而，最初的和后续的系列受到了质疑，及时安全地放置这些陶瓷款式非常重要。为了理解变化，考古学家必须绝对地和相对地锚定遗址。萨维奇博士的研究将有助于在世界一个非常重要的时期和地区实现这一目标。成果将得到广泛应用。