Support for University of Arizona Dendrochronological Laboratory

支持亚利桑那大学树木年代学实验室

• 批准号: 2318888
• 负责人: Ronald Towner
• 金额: $ 22.18万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318888&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; University; Arizona; Dendrochronological; Laboratory

Dendrochronology is the most exact archaeological dating method available to scholars interested in the recent past. Tree-rings are accurate at the annual, and often seasonal, level of resolution and many other dating techniques are calibrated using tree-rings. Such resolution is critical when assessing hypotheses of human/environment interaction, settlement and subsistence change. Societal benefits of this project include increasing our understanding of long-term human adaptation to sociocultural and environmental variability and from knowledge of past environmental variability, both of which are important for developing environmental and social policy. The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) at the University of Arizona is the only institution active in all aspects of dendrochronological research. A major component of the Laboratory's research program is the analysis and dating of wood and charcoal from prehistoric and historic archaeological contexts. Thus, the LTRR has become the leading processor of archaeological tree-ring materials, the primary source of tree-ring dates in multiple regions of the world, and the largest repository of archaeological tree-ring samples in the world. The integration of the dating program into the full range of dendrochronological research, teaching, and outreach activities at the Laboratory creates a unique interdisciplinary context that maximizes the scientific value of archaeological tree-ring samples and chronologies, and provides a variety of publics to enjoy the research. The project's primary contribution to archaeological research involves exact dating and chronology building, topics crucial to understanding human behavior, human-environment interactions, and processes of sociocultural stability, variation, change, and evolution. The project contributes to understanding past human activities that remain outside written history, either because they occurred prior to written records or were in areas that were not recorded. Using traditional and new innovative techniques, the project offers stakeholders a long-erm perspective in which to understand past human land and resource use. The findings of the project are almost immediately integrated into University of Arizona classes including an Undergraduate General Education Tier II science course for nonscience majors and undergraduate/graduate courses in the School of Anthropology and departments of Geosciences and Renewable Natural Resources. The project directly contributes to PhD dissertation and MA thesis research by students at the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Washington State University, and other colleges and universities. The project contributes directly to extensive outreach activities that have reached more than 12000 people in the last year, including K-12 programs, graduate and undergraduate students, visiting scholars from around the world, and field training for government, private, and Native American cultural resource management programs. The project engages in cooperative research and training with many US and International universities, government agencies, and private consulting firms. The LTRR tree-ring sample collections and data archives are unparalleled, easily accessed resources for archaeological, historical, and environmental research. Project results are distributed to the public through lectures, newspapers, radio, television, and the internet.. Project personnel have contributed directly to formulating policy for documenting, sampling, and protecting cultural and natural resources by federal, state, local, and tribal land management agencies.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.

DendroColonology是对最近感兴趣的学者使用的最精确的考古日期方法。树环在年度且通常是季节性的分辨率水平和许多其他约会技术的水平上是准确的，并使用树环校准了许多其他约会技术。当评估人/环境互动，和解和生存变化的假设时，这种分辨率至关重要。该项目的社会利益包括我们对人类对社会文化和环境变异性的长期适应以及对过去环境变异性的了解，这对制定环境和社会政策很重要。 亚利桑那大学的树木研究实验室（LTRR）是树突年代学研究各个方面唯一活跃的机构。实验室研究计划的一个主要组成部分是对史前和历史考古环境中对木材和木炭进行分析和约会。因此，LTRR已成为考古树环材料的领先处理器，这是世界多个地区的树木环日期的主要来源，也是世界上最大的考古树环样本库。在实验室中，约会计划将约会计划的整合到整个树突年代学研究，教学和外展活动中，创造了独特的跨学科环境，从而最大程度地提高了考古树环样本和年表的科学价值，并提供了各种公众来享受这项研究。该项目对考古研究的主要贡献涉及确切的约会和年代构建，对理解人类行为，人类环境相互作用以及社会文化稳定性，变化，变化和进化至关重要的主题。该项目有助于理解过去的人类活动，这些活动仍在书面历史之外，要么是因为它们发生在书面记录之前，要么是未记录的领域。该项目使用传统和新的创新技术，为利益相关者提供了伦理学的观点，可以在其中了解过去的人类土地和资源的使用。该项目的发现几乎立即纳入亚利桑那大学课程，包括针对人类学和地球科学和可再生自然资源部门的非科学专业和本科/研究生课程的本科通识教育课程和本科/研究生课程。该项目直接促进了亚利桑那大学，亚利桑那大学，华盛顿州立大学以及其他学院的学生的博士学位论文和硕士学位研究。该项目直接为去年有12000多人的广泛推广活动做出了贡献，其中包括K-12计划，研究生和本科生，访问来自世界各地的学者，以及对政府，私人和美国原住民文化资源管理计划进行现场培训。该项目与许多美国和国际大学，政府机构和私人咨询公司进行合作研究和培训。 LTRR树木样品收集和数据档案是无与伦比的，很容易访问考古，历史和环境研究的资源。项目结果通过讲座，报纸，广播，电视和互联网分发给公众。项目人员直接为制定了记录，采样和保护文化和保护文化和自然资源的政策，由联邦，州，地方和部落土地管理机构促进文化和自然资源。该奖项反映了NSF的法规和范围的范围。