Support for the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR

对 MURR 考古实验室的支持

• 批准号: 1110793
• 负责人: Michael Glascock
• 金额: $ 33.65万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110793&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Archaeometry; Laboratory; MURR

With National Science Foundation support Drs. Michael Glascock and Jeffrey Ferguson will continue the operation of the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR). The Archaeometry Laboratory is the most comprehensive US-based laboratory dedicated to chemical characterization studies of archaeological materials, and is widely recognized around the world for its leading role in the field. The analytical techniques available include neutron activation analysis (NAA), inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometry (ICP-MS) of solutions using high resolution, quadrupole, and multicollector instruments, laser ablation ICP-MS (LA-ICP-MS), and conventional- and portable-XRF. These techniques permit the quantification of major, minor and trace elements simultaneously and with a high degree of accuracy and precision in a wide range of archaeological materials. The MURR laboratory also plays an important role in training students in the analytical techniques for application to specific archaeological questions. Frequently, archaeology students are invited to spend time at MURR where they are taught a variety of methods for interpreting archaeological data and have direct access to the large compositional databases containing more than 100,000 previous analyses of pottery, obsidian, basalt, and chert. Online access to these databases is continuing to be developed and improved for integration with databases from other laboratories. Laboratory staff and students are also involved in efforts to rescue compositional databases from laboratories no longer in operation. The ceramic databases in many parts of the world have reached a sufficient size to allow regional syntheses that examine large-scale patterns of ceramic production, use and exchange. In addition to continued support of student and senior archaeology research projects, Glascock and Ferguson are also developing calibration standards and analytical procedures that facilitate the integration of data from multiple analytical techniques (e.g., INAA, ICP-MS, XRF). These efforts will benefit both new and mature analytical programs involved in archaeometric compositional analysis research. Glascock and Ferguson continue to oversee the development and application of LA-ICP-MS to archaeological materials and facilitate the development of portable-XRF for archaeometric research. The broader impacts of this work includes the elemental data generated in collaboration with colleagues and students that will be used to address important topics related to human and social dynamics of prehistoric peoples and societies, such as, mobility patterns and migrations of people, cultural responses to conflict and stress, community social organization, the development of craft production and specialization, and the creation and maintenance of social boundaries and identity.

在国家科学基金会支持博士的情况下。迈克尔·格拉斯科克（Michael Glascock）和杰弗里·弗格森（Jeffrey Ferguson）将继续在密苏里大学研究反应堆中心（MURR）的考古实验室运作。考古实验室是美国最全面的实验室，致力于考古材料的化学特征研究，并因其在该领域的领先作用而广泛认可。可用的分析技术包括使用高分辨率，四倍体和多弹丸仪器，激光烧蚀ICP-MS（LA-ICP-MS）以及常规 - 和传统的 - 和Portable-XRF，使用高分辨率，四极杆和多弹丸仪器，以及激光烧蚀ICP-MS（LASER ABERATION ICP-MS），包括中子激活分析（NAA），溶液的电感耦合 - 质量 - 光谱法（ICP-MS）。这些技术允许同时量化主要，次要和痕量元素，并且在各种考古材料中具有高度的准确性和精度。 MURR实验室在培训学生的分析技术中也起着重要作用，以应用于特定的考古问题。通常，考古学生被邀请在MURR上度过一些时间，在那里他们被教会了多种解释考古数据的方法，并可以直接访问大型构图数据库，这些数据库包含100,000多个先前对陶器，黑曜石，玄武岩和切尔特的分析。在线访问这些数据库正在继续开发和改进，以与其他实验室的数据库集成。实验室人员和学生还参与了从不再运营的实验室拯救组成数据库的努力。世界许多地方的陶瓷数据库已经达到了足够的尺寸，以允许区域合成，以检查陶瓷生产，使用和交换的大规模模式。 除了持续支持学生和高级考古研究项目外，Glascock和Ferguson还开发了校准标准和分析程序，以促进来自多种分析技术（例如INAA，ICP-MS，XRF）的数据整合。这些努力将使考古组成分析研究涉及的新的和成熟的分析计划受益。 Glascock和Ferguson继续监督LA-ICP-MS在考古材料中的开发和应用，并促进用于考古研究的便携式-XRF的开发。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括与同事和学生合作产生的基本数据，这些数据将用于解决与史前民族和社会的人类和社会动态有关的重要主题，例如人的流动性模式和人的移动模式和迁移，冲突和压力的文化反应，对社区社会组织，社区社会组织，工艺生产以及社会和创造和维护的发展，以及创造和维护和确定性和确定性。