Laboratory Support for the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry

考古化学实验室的实验室支持

• 批准号: 0313943
• 负责人: T. Douglas Price
• 金额: $ 22.62万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0313943&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Support; Archaeological; Chemistry

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. T. Douglas Price and Dr. James Burton of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with Dr. Paul Fullager (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), with continue the investigations of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, one of the very few institutions for such research in the US. This funding, in the form of a Laboratory Support Award, will permit the laboratory to pursue the study of isotopic measures of past human migration and residence change. One of the major foci of the lab is the application of strontium and lead isotopes to questions of human movement in the past.This intensive focus involves the characterization of local variation in strontium isotope ratios at three separate localities in Wisconsin, Honduras, and Germany to determine sources of strontium and improve our ability to identify migrants. Preliminary studies of isotopes at these sites have documented the mobility of individuals present, as well as substantial variation among the buried inhabitants. The detailed studies proposed here will provide new insight into the sources of strontium utilized by the inhabitants of the site. This new information will tell us about age/sex differences in diet within the community and the use of the landscape (e.g., agricultural fields, summer pasture, and hunting areas), as well as providing a badly needed determination of the local range of variation. This project will result in new approaches to the use of isotopic proveniencing in archaeological studies that will provide new information on the human use of the landscape in the past. This information has important implications for understanding the transition to agriculture in the past and the nature of culture change. Did human migration play a major role in the spread of prehistoric agriculture, language, and genetic material, or did local groups adopt the knowledge and materials of farming from outsiders? This research is new and at the cutting edge of isotopic proveniencing studies in archaeology. New perspectives and new techniques resulting from this study will undoubtedly produce new knowledge. Broader impacts will be felt on the scientific community and society at large. The Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry provides a service to the archaeological community in the form of education and chemical analyses that involves institutions and colleagues around the globe. These activities in general and the proposed project specifically involve students and colleagues in the development and application of archaeometric methods in archaeology and bioarchaeology. These activities are international in scope and affect substantial numbers of students and colleagues.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，道格拉斯·普赖斯（T. Douglas Price）博士和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的詹姆斯·伯顿（James Burton）以及保罗·富格（Paul Fullager）（北卡罗来纳大学 - chapel山）以及考古化学实验室的调查，这是US中此类研究的少数机构之一。这项资金以实验室支持奖的形式，将使实验室能够研究过去的人类移民和居住变化的同位素措施。实验室的主要焦点之一是过去将锶和铅同位素应用于过去的人类运动问题。这些密集的焦点涉及在威斯康星州，洪都拉斯和德国三个单独地区的跨同位素比率的局部变化来表征局部同位素比率的局部变化，以确定标层的来源并确定我们的移民的能力。这些地点的同位素的初步研究已经证明了存在的个体的流动性以及埋葬居民之间的实质性差异。此处提出的详细研究将为该地点居民使用的锶来源提供新的见解。这些新信息将向我们介绍社区内饮食的年龄/性别差异以及景观的使用（例如，农田，夏季牧场和狩猎区），并提供了急需确定局部变异范围的景观。 该项目将为考古研究中使用同位素证明的新方法，这些方法将提供有关过去景观使用的新信息。这些信息对于理解过去向农业的过渡和文化变化具有重要意义。人类移民在史前农业，语言和遗传物质的传播中起主要作用，还是当地团体采用了局外人的耕种知识和材料？这项研究是新的，并且是同位素证明的考古学研究的最前沿。这项研究产生的新观点和新技术无疑会产生新的知识。 将对整个科学界和社会产生更大的影响。考古化学实验室以教育和化学分析的形式为考古界提供了服务，涉及全球机构和同事。这些活动一般而言，拟议的项目特别涉及学生和同事参与考古和生物考古学考古方法的发展和应用。这些活动的范围是国际性的，并影响了许多学生和同事。