Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Ceramics as a Chronological Indicator

博士论文改进奖：作为年代指标的陶瓷

• 批准号: 1903790
• 负责人: Alice Yao
• 金额: $ 1.58万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1903790&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Ceramics

Mannat Johal, a PhD scholar at the University of Chicago, will investigate how people and societies experience time through their participation in everyday activities of production and consumption. While time is generally understood in terms of quantifiable units such as hours, days, months and years, recent scholarship has highlighted that human experiences of time are diverse, and rooted in activities rather than objective measurements. As a discipline that tracks long-term processes of continuity and change, archaeology is particularly well-suited to tracing the rhythms and durations of a range of activities, everyday acts of cooking and consumption as well as events like death and commemoration. Further, archaeological studies emphasize how relationships between people and the material world - landscapes, monuments and objects - influence how people and societies form a sense of history, and develop their collective memory. These complex experiences of time have been significant historically and remain important in today's world, as seen in disputed claims to heritage, debates over the repatriation of museum objects, and a widespread interest in documenting and preserving traditional practices. Researchers collaborate with scholars and government officials in India to train students and produce knowledge about the past that is disseminated to both academic and non-academic audiences. Additionally, this team of researchers will collaborate with local authorities to create a museum with finds excavated at Maski.Shifting the focus from meaningful monuments to the sphere of everyday life, the research will study how the production and use of ceramic vessels shaped the rhythms of household activities in medieval south India. Ceramic vessels were common objects accessible to a wide range of the population and used for a variety of purposes, such as cooking, storage, eating, and transporting goods. Working with a team of excavators at Maski, located in the semi-arid southern reaches of India's Deccan plateau, the researcher will study how ceramic vessel forms shifted over time, and the ways in which potters created vessels that may have been considered "traditional" or "novel." She will combine evidence from typological analysis with data on ceramic pastes to assess how potters created vessels with varying levels of durability. This research is part of a larger effort to develop a historical archaeology of the Indian Subcontinent.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

芝加哥大学博士学位学者曼纳特·乔哈尔（Mannat Johal）将研究人们和社会如何通过参加生产和消费的日常活动来体验时间。虽然通常从可量化的单元（例如小时，天数和几年）来理解时间，但最近的奖学金强调，人类的时间经历是多种多样的，并且植根于活动而不是客观的测量。作为追踪连续性和变化的长期过程的纪律，考古学特别适合追踪一系列活动的节奏和持续时间，日常烹饪和消费行为以及死亡和纪念活动。此外，考古研究强调了人们与物质世界之间的关系如何（景观，纪念碑和物体）如何影响人们和社会如何形成历史感并发展其集体记忆。这些复杂的时间经历在历史上一直很重要，并且在当今世界仍然很重要，这在有争议的遗产主张，关于遣返博物馆物体的辩论以及对记录和保存传统实践的广泛兴趣。研究人员与印度的学者和政府官员合作，培训学生并提供有关学术和非学术受众的过去的知识。此外，这支研究人员将与地方当局合作创建博物馆，并在马斯基（Maski）挖掘出来。将重点从有意义的古迹到日常生活领域，研究将研究陶瓷船只的生产和使用如何影响塑造的节奏。中世纪南印度的家庭活动。陶瓷容器是广泛的人口可访问的常见物体，用于各种目的，例如烹饪，存储，饮食和运输商品。研究人员与位于印度德干高原的半干旱南部河流的马斯基的挖掘机团队合作，研究人员将研究陶瓷船的形式如何随着时间而变化，以及陶工创建的船只的方式可能被认为是“传统”的船只或“小说”。她将将类型学分析的证据与陶瓷糊的数据结合在一起，以评估陶工如何创建耐用性水平不同的船只。这项研究是开发印度次大陆历史考古学的更大努力的一部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来支持。