Support for the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR

对 MURR 考古实验室的支持

• 批准号: 1912776
• 负责人: Jeffrey Ferguson
• 金额: $ 35.62万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 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: 2019-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1912776&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Archaeometry; Laboratory; MURR; Support; Archaeometry; Laboratory; MURR

The Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) conducts compositional analysis of archaeological materials like ceramics, chert, obsidian, and metals. Such chemical analyses are essential pieces of evidence used by archaeologists to investigate the technology, economics, social and political organization, identity, and religious practices in ancient societies. Understanding past human behavior can inform modern efforts to address issues such as population movement, resource exploitation, group interaction, and internal group social stress. The long-term success of the Archaeometry Laboratory has resulted in an unparalleled database of artifact and raw material chemical compositions that enhance the explanatory power of future analytical studies as well as provide the raw material for large-scale research projects using existing data. The laboratory is able to support a wide variety of projects and numerous students, graduate interns, researchers, and visiting scholars every year, and contributes to knowledge diffusion through close scientific collaborations between MURR staff and outside researchers, student education, and professional publications. The MURR Archaeometry Laboratory focuses on elemental and isotopic analysis in order to examine the production, exchange, and movement of a broad variety of artifacts including ceramics, lithics, and metals, using neutron activation analysis (NAA), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) including a laser ablation system and a multi-collector. The laboratory also supports geochemical research on the petrogenesis of various igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Broader impacts of the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR include: (1) availability of affordable chemical and isotopic analyses for students and faculty from academic departments and non-profit research organizations in the US; (2) training of undergraduate and graduate students in the selection and use of laboratory methods of analysis; (3) advice in project design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of the chemical and isotopic data; and (4) public access by archaeologists, geologists, and scientists from many disciplines to the compositional database.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.

密苏里大学研究反应堆（MURR）的考古实验室对陶瓷，切尔特，黑曜石和金属等考古材料进行组成分析。这种化学分析是考古学家使用的基本证据，以调查古代社会中的技术，经济学，社会和政治组织，身份和宗教实践。了解过去的人类行为可以为解决人口运动，资源剥削，群体互动和内部团体社会压力等问题提供信息。考古实验室的长期成功导致了一个无与伦比的人工制品和原材料化学成分数据库，从而增强了未来分析研究的解释力，并使用现有数据为大型研究项目提供了原材料。该实验室能够支持各种各样的项目，并且每年都有众多学生，研究生实习生，研究人员和访问学者，并通过MURR员工与外部研究人员，学生教育和专业出版物之间的密切科学合作来促进知识扩散。 The MURR Archaeometry Laboratory focuses on elemental and isotopic analysis in order to examine the production, exchange, and movement of a broad variety of artifacts including ceramics, lithics, and metals, using neutron activation analysis (NAA), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) including a laser ablation system and a multi-collector.该实验室还支持有关各种火成岩，变质和沉积岩的岩化的地球化学研究。 MURR考古实验室的更广泛影响包括：（1）美国学术部门和美国非营利研究组织的学生和教职员工的负担得起的化学和同位素分析； （2）在选择和使用实验室分析方法中对本科和研究生的培训； （3）在项目设计，统计分析以及化学和同位素数据的解释方面的建议； （4）考古学家，地质学家和科学家从许多学科到组成数据库的公共访问权。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估的评估来支持的。