Monitoring the Development of Bronze Age Complexity and Metallurgy: New Excavations at the Great Tell of Pecica "Santu Mare"

监测青铜时代复杂性和冶金学的发展：佩西卡“桑图马雷”大台的新发掘

• 批准号: 0620147
• 负责人: John O'Shea
• 金额: $ 23.81万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0620147&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Monitoring; Development; Bronze; Age; Complexity

With National Science Foundation Support, Drs. John O'Shea and Alex Barker and a team of American and Romanian colleagues will conduct a multi-year project of archaeological testing and excavation at the site of Pecica Santul Mare in western Romania. The project builds on a highly successful pilot season, also funded with NSF support. The research team brings together expertise in geology, metallurgy, material science and biology, as well as expertise in Bronze Age and Dacian archaeology, to investigate the age and character of this pivotal archaeological site. The great tell at Pecica holds a unique place in the history of European archaeology. As one of the earliest excavated Bronze Age tells in Eastern Europe, its long sequence of occupation provided the standard for dating the later prehistory of Middle and Eastern Europe. The calibration of the Pecica sequence using modern dating techniques such as radiocarbon dating will greatly enhance the research value of Pecica's unique long sequence of occupation and will serve to recalibrate existing collections from literally hundreds of archaeological sites across Eastern Europe. In addition to its chronological significance, Pecica was an important early center for the manufacture and distribution of metal work during the Bronze Age. As such, the site can provide a laboratory for documenting the organization of early bronze metallurgy and trade as well as for understanding the character of social change during the Bronze Age. The Pecica project will generate a plethora of important scientific results. The project will establish a secure chronological framework for Pecica and the eastern European Bronze Age, and will document how the rise of metallurgy and trade during the Bronze Age contributed to changes in the organization and complexity of society within continental Europe. In addition, the excavations will provide the first systematically collected evidence for the subsistence and economic basis for these large Bronze Age settlements, and for the technology of metal production.Among its broader impacts, the study will foster international scholarly collaboration in a region that until recently was isolated from most research in the English-speaking world. The collaborative work will enhance the sharing of expertise and techniques among American and Romanian researchers and provide major training benefits for American and Romanian students. The project also will ensure that a controlled sample of archaeological materials from this historic, but endangered, site is preserved for posterity.

在国家科学基金会的支持下，博士。约翰·奥谢（John O'Shea）和亚历克斯·巴克（Alex Barker）以及一支由美国和罗马尼亚同事组成的团队将在西罗马尼亚西部的Pecica Santul Mare地点进行多年的考古测试和发掘项目。 该项目建立在一个非常成功的试点季节，也由NSF支持资助。 研究小组汇集了地质，冶金学，材料科学和生物学以及青铜时代和达西亚考古学专业知识的专业知识，以研究这个关键的考古遗址的年龄和特征。 佩奇卡（Pecica）的伟大讲述在欧洲考古历史上占有独特的位置。 正如最早在东欧挖掘的青铜时代所说的那样，其长期的占领序列为约会后来的中欧史前和东欧提供了标准。 使用现代约会技术（例如放射性碳年代）对山核桃序列进行校准将大大提高Pecica独特的长期职业占领的研究价值，并将有助于重新校准东欧整个东欧的数百个考古遗址的现有收藏。 除了年代的意义外，Pecica还是青铜时代内金属工作制造和分配的重要早期中心。 因此，该网站可以提供一个实验室，以记录早期青铜冶金和贸易的组织，以及了解青铜时代期间社会变革的特征。 Pecica项目将产生许多重要的科学结果。 该项目将为Pecica和东欧青铜时代建立一个安全的时间顺序框架，并将记录青铜时代期间冶金和贸易的兴起如何促进欧洲大陆境内社会组织和社会复杂性的变化。 此外，发掘将为这些庞大的青铜时代定居点和金属生产技术提供第一个系统收集的证据。在其更广泛的影响下，这项研究将促进国际学者在这个地区的合作，直到最近才与英语讲英语世界中的大多数研究隔离。 协作工作将增强美国和罗马尼亚研究人员之间的专业知识和技术的共享，并为美国和罗马尼亚学生提供重大培训益处。 该项目还将确保保留了这种历史性但濒临灭绝的地点的考古材料样本以进行后代。