Reconstruction of Manufacturing Patterns through Elemental and Isotopic Characterization of Raw Materials

通过原材料的元素和同位素表征重建制造模式

• 批准号: 1649822
• 负责人: Thomas Fenn
• 金额: $ 9.35万
• 依托单位: Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649822&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reconstruction; Manufacturing; Patterns; through; Elemental

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Drs. Laure Dussubieux of The Field Museum, Shinu Abraham of Saint Lawrence University, and Thomas Fenn of California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, will undertake interdisciplinary research to understand ancient trade and exchange in South Asia and around the Indian Ocean as well as the relationship of that trade to the development of social complexity in the region. Political and ecological changes as well as other factors have an influence on the exchange networks connecting different communities. The different industries around the Indian Ocean, which fueled the trade conducted in this region and beyond, had to adapt in terms of their location and the nature and volume of their production, to shifts in the networks connecting the different actors of the trade. Through the study of the local glass industry, researchers will study how such an industry responded to changes in trade patterns around the region from around the mid-first millennium BCE to the late Medieval Period. At a time when India is witnessing the collapse of its traditional glass industry in favor of a more automated and less labor-intensive alternative, this project will provide new information about the roots of an activity on the brink of extinction and will provide new insights regarding the consequences of changing industrial landscapes in the modern world. This project integrates research and training of undergraduate and graduate students in interdisciplinary research. Results of this study will inform future exhibits and education activities at the Field Museum which educate hundreds of thousands of K-12 children and more than a million of visitors annually. This collaborative effort will include the collection of potential raw materials used for glass manufacturing based on the geological nature of the soils and the archaeological or ethnographical evidence of glass manufacturing in the area. Elemental and isotopic composition of the raw material will be determined and compared to data collected for ancient glass. Assuming that each center of glass production would procure raw materials from a nearby source, the diversity of the geology of India provides the possibility of characterizing each production center with a unique elemental and isotopic signature that will be identical in the raw materials and the finished glass.

在国家科学基金会的资助下。现场博物馆的Laure Dussubieux，Saint Lawrence University的Shinu Abraham和加利福尼亚州理工大学POMONA的Thomas Fenn将进行跨学科研究，以了解南亚和印度洋周围的古代贸易和交流，以及在印度洋上以及这种关系的关系交易该地区社会复杂性的发展。政治和生态变化以及其他因素对连接不同社区的交换网络有影响。印度洋周围的不同行业推动了该地区及以后进行的贸易，不得不适应其位置以及生产的性质和数量，以转移连接贸易不同参与者的网络。 通过对当地玻璃行业的研究，研究人员将研究此类行业如何应对从公元前公元前千年到中世纪晚期的该地区贸易模式的变化。在印度目睹其传统玻璃行业的崩溃以建立更加自动化和劳动力密集的替代方案的时候，该项目将提供有关灭绝边缘活动的根源的新信息，并将提供有关有关的新见解现代世界不断变化的工业景观的后果。该项目融合了跨学科研究的本科和研究生的研究和培训。这项研究的结果将为未来的展览和教育活动提供信息，该博物馆每年教育成千上万的K-11儿童和一百万的游客。这项协作的工作将包括基于土壤的地质性质以及该地区玻璃制造的考古或人种学证据收集用于玻璃制造的潜在原材料。将确定原材料的元素和同位素组成，并将其与古代玻璃收集的数据进行比较。假设每个玻璃生产的每个中心都会从附近的来源采购原材料，那么印度地质的多样性提供了用独特的元素和同位素签名来表征每个生产中心的可能性，在原材料和成品玻璃中将相同。