Support for the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR

对 MURR 考古实验室的支持

• 批准号: 2208558
• 负责人: Brandi MacDonald
• 金额: $ 37.74万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2208558&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Archaeometry; Laboratory; MURR

Through the lens of archaeological science, geochemical datasets can produce specific and accurate descriptions of where people lived and migrated, raw material provisioning, object biographies, technological trends, and socioeconomic and cultural exchange. Such data advance current theoretical understandings of cultural evolution and adaptations, and can inform modern studies of population movements, resource exploitation, social networks, and land-use patterns. To this end, the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) specializes in the provenance and compositional analysis of archaeological materials including ceramics, chert, obsidian, pigments, and metals. 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 supports a wide variety of projects, trains 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 using neutron activation analysis (NAA), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Raman spectroscopy (RS), 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.

通过考古科学的镜头，地球化学数据集可以对人们居住和迁移的地方，原材料提供，物体传记，技术趋势以及社会经济和文化交流产生特定而准确的描述。此类数据可以推进对文化进化和适应的当前理论理解，并可以为人口运动，资源开发，社交网络和土地利用模式提供现代研究。为此，密苏里大学研究反应堆（MURR）的考古实验室专门研究包括陶瓷，Chert，Chert，Obsidian，颜料和金属在内的考古材料的出处和组成分析。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。 The laboratory supports a wide variety of projects, trains 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 using neutron activation analysis (NAA), X-ray荧光（XRF），拉曼光谱（RS）和电感耦合等离子体质谱（ICP-MS），包括激光消融系统和多组收集器。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。