Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Chemical Analysis to Determine Container Content

博士论文改进奖：化学分析确定容器内容物

• 批准号: 2243095
• 负责人: Kenneth Sassaman
• 金额: $ 2.73万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 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: 2022-11-15 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243095&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Chemical

Circumstances surrounding the use of pottery among hunter-gatherers continues to be a compelling archaeological topic. The makers and users of North America’s oldest pottery figure prominently in archaeological perspectives on how and why hunter-gatherer societies worldwide responded to changing environmental conditions and novel social situations through the use of durable, highly adaptable technologies. However, despite knowing when, where, and how such pottery was used, archaeologists do not know what these early ceramics were used for. There is currently no direct evidence available for the types of foods processed with this innovation. To address this gap the goal of this project is to analyze the residues preserved within such pottery walls. This research marks the first attempt to chemically analyze the resources to document changes in foodways attending the shift from mobile to sedentary settlement which occurred. The results of this research have the potential to illuminate the connection between settlement practices and foodways that affect sustainable land use. In places across the globe, archaeologists are collaborating with Indigenous communities to document and revive ancient foodways to help improve and sustain food security. This potential is hampered where colonial histories of forced removal of Indigenous people disrupted traditional land use and foodways. Among those with ancestral ties are descendants of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek. Building on existing Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) relations with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, descendants of the Creek, the results of this project will be incorporated into the curriculum of a developing graduate certificate program in Indigenous Archaeology at the university of Florida. In this doctoral dissertation research project the graduate student is conducting pottery organic residue analyses spanning the transition from mobile to sedentary settlement. Focusing on this transition, organic residue analysis will be conducted on samples of ceramic sherds from multiple sites to determine the types of foods processed with pottery vessels both before and after communities were sedentary. Structuring the organic residue analysis is the hypothesis that diversification of vessel form over this transition reflects increased specialization in vessel use, notably changes in the types of foods processed therein. In support of analyses of archaeological residues, the proposed research includes controlled experiments in indirect-heat cooking. These baseline reference data enhance the interpretation of changes in foodways registered in archaeological organic residues that, when placed into broader contexts, contribute to the growing biomarker database of hunter-gatherer pottery worldwide.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.

围绕猎人采集者使用陶器的情况仍然是一个引人注目的档案主题。北美最古老的陶器的制造商和用户在档案学的角度出色地说明了全世界的狩猎采集社会如何以及为什么通过使用耐用，高度适应的技术来对环境状况和新颖的社交状况做出反应。但是，dospite知道何时，何处和如何使用这种陶器，档案学家并不知道这些早期陶瓷的使用方法。目前尚无该创新处理食品类型的直接证据。为了解决这一差距，该项目的目标是分析保存在此类陶墙内的残差。这项研究标志着第一次尝试化学分析资源以记录参加从移动移动转移到久坐定居点的食品变化的资源。这项研究的结果有可能阐明影响可持续土地利用的设置实践与食品之间的联系。在全球的地方，考古学家正在与土著社区合作，以记录和复兴古老的食物道，以帮助改善和维持粮食安全。这种潜力受到阻碍，在殖民历史被迫撤离土著人民的殖民历史中破坏了传统的土地使用和食品。在祖先领带的人中，有切诺基，奇卡索和克里克的后代。建立在现有的美国原住民坟墓保护和遣返法案（NAGPRA）与佛罗里达州塞米诺尔部落的关系，小溪的后代，该项目的结果将纳入佛罗里达大学土著考古发展研究生证书计划的课程中。在这个博士学位论文研究项目中，研究生正在进行陶器有机住宅分析，这些分析涵盖了从移动设置到久坐的环境。为了关注这一过渡，将对来自多个地点的陶瓷棚样品进行有机保留分析，以确定社区久坐前和之后用陶器视频处理的食物类型。构建有机保留分析的是，在这种过渡过程中，血管形成的多样化反映了在使用血管使用方面的专业化，这特别是在其中处理的食物类型的变化。为了支持档案的分析，拟议的研究包括间接加热烹饪的受控实验。这些基线参考数据增强了对Archiver组织中注册的食品通道变化的解释，该变化将其置于广播范围的环境中，为全球Hunter-Gatherer Pottery的生物标志物数据库不断增长。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广告范围来评估NSF的法定任务。