Solid-Sample Inorganic Analysis Facilities for Archaeological Research at IIRMES, CSULB

IIRMES、CSULB 考古研究固体样品无机分析设施

• 批准号: 0604712
• 负责人: Hector Neff
• 金额: $ 15.43万
• 依托单位: California State University-Long Beach Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0604712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Solid; Sample; Inorganic; Analysis; Facilities

A team of archaeological scientists at the Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environments, and Societies (IIRMES), California State University Long Beach (CSULB) will use NSF funding to expand the use of solid-sample characterization techniques in archaeology. IIRMES analytical instruments include a scanning electron microscope with x-ray detectors, two inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS), a laser-ablation (LA) system attached to the ICP-MS, and instruments for luminescence dating of archaeological artifacts. These instruments are useful in the investigation of ancient technology, artifact source determination and investigation of trade relations, investigation of ancient human population movements, and dating. NSF funding for IIRMES will support the use of these analytical resources by archaeologists from across the US and abroad This project builds on a model of shared analytical resources that has served archaeology well during the past two decades. In this model, the NSF Archaeometry Program partially funds labs with demonstrated long-term commitments to collaborative archaeological research. With the NSF subsidy, analysis costs are much more affordable for academic researchers, so that it becomes practical to plan analytical efforts involving sample sizes large enough to address significant archaeological questions. NSF funding of the IIRMES lab will be used (1) to subsidize analytical costs for collaborating researchers from the US and abroad, who will send samples to IIRMES for analysis (2) to fund visiting researchers from the US and abroad, who will visit the lab and obtain hands-on training in using LA-ICP-MS and other techniques in their research; and (3) to work toward improved precision in solid-sample elemental and isotopic characterization and dosimetry for luminescence dating.While this project is designed to broaden access by archaeologists to analytical techniques, it is also designed to foster innovation and to promote training in archaeological science. Applications for the visiting researcher program will be judged partly on their novelty and the likelihood that they may open new avenues of archaeological research. The program is open to all academic levels, from undergraduate students through senior scholars, from the US or foreign countries. It is anticipated that many of the visiting researchers will be individuals working on MA and Ph.D. thesis projects. Through their work at IIRMES, student participants will carry a better understanding of analytical techniques and methods into their future careers as professional archaeologists.The project will also have important impacts locally on the research and education environment at CSULB, a designated minority-serving institution in the heart of the largest urban area on the west coast. CSULB graduate and undergraduate students will carry out sample preparation and analysis on subsidized projects, and they will work closely with visiting researchers. Advanced students will use IIRMES instruments in class research projects and in their own thesis projects, some of which will likely grow out of collaborations with visiting researchers. In addition, CSULB students across the sciences will benefit from the opportunity to use state-of-the-art analytical instruments in research projects that integrate knowledge and techniques from archaeology, anthropology, geology, biology, chemistry, and other disciplines.Finally, once the original researchers have published their own reports of the archaeometric research undertaken at IIRMES, the analytical data will be published on the IIRMES website.

加利福尼亚州立大学长滩（CSULB）的材料，环境和社会综合研究研究所的考古科学家团队将使用NSF资金扩大考古学中实心样本特征技术的使用。 IIRMES分析仪器包括带有X射线探测器的扫描电子显微镜，两个电感耦合等离子体质谱仪（ICP-MS），ICP-MS连接的激光燃料（LA）系统以及用于古学文物的发光仪器的仪器。这些工具可用于调查古代技术，人工制品来源的确定和调查贸易关系，对古代人口运动的调查以及约会。 NSF为IIRMES提供的资金将支持来自美国和国外的考古学家对这些分析资源的使用，该项目以共享分析资源的模型为基础，在过去的二十年中，该模型在考古学方面很好地服务了。在此模型中，NSF考古计划部分资助实验室，表现出了对协作考古研究的长期承诺。借助NSF补贴，分析成本对于学术研究人员而言更加负担得起，因此计划进行分析工作，涉及样本量足以解决重大考古问题的分析工作。 NSF的资金将用于IIRMES实验室（1）来补贴来自美国和国外的研究人员的分析成本，他们将向国外的研究人员提供样本进行分析（2），以资助来自美国和国外的访问研究人员，他们将访问实验室，并在其研究中使用LA-ICP-MS和其他研究中的其他技术来获得动手培训； （3）为了提高实体样本元素和同位素表征和发光年代的剂量测定法的精度。虽然该项目旨在扩大考古学家对分析技术的访问，但它也旨在促进创新和促进考古科学的培训。来访研究人员计划的申请将部分根据其新颖性和开放考古研究新途径的可能性进行判断。该计划向所有学术级别开放，从本科生到美国或国外的高级学者。预计许多来访的研究人员将是从事MA和Ph.D.的个人。论文项目。通过在IIRMES的工作，学生参与者将更好地理解分析技术和方法作为专业考古学家的未来职业。该项目还将对CSULB的研究和教育环境产生重要影响，CSULB是西海岸最大城市中心的指定少数群体服务机构。 CSULB毕业生和本科生将对有补贴的项目进行样本准备和分析，他们将与访问研究人员紧密合作。高级学生将在课堂研究项目及其自己的论文项目中使用IIRMES工具，其中一些可能会与访问研究人员合作。此外，整个科学的CSULB学生将受益于在研究项目中使用最先进的分析工具，这些工具整合了考古学，人类学，地质学，地质学，生物学，化学和其他学科的知识和技术。一旦原始研究人员发布了在IRMERS上发表的原始研究报告，一旦最初的研究人员发布了IRNM，该网站就会出版于IRND上。