Qin Imperial Iron, Tomb M1 and the First Emperor's Mausoleum: Character, Context and Consequence

秦皇铁、M1 墓和始皇陵：特征、背景和后果

• 批准号: AH/W009552/1
• 负责人: Andrew Bevan
• 金额: $ 99.85万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW009552%2F1
• 关键词: Qin; Imperial; Iron; Tomb; M1

The Qin Imperial Iron project will pioneer systematic study of iron objects found in the Qin First Emperor's mausoleum. The monumental complex of Qin Shihuang is famous worldwide and often evoked as an expression of the workings of the Qin Empire in microcosm. Its Terracotta Army was equipped with thousands of functional bronze weapons, while in contrast it remains curious that iron implements are not more prominent in the complex by this stage of the 1st millennium BCE. However, newly-excavated finds of iron swords and a suit of iron armour from tomb M1 at the mausoleum site now provide a privileged new analytical vantage point and prompt us to consider the hundreds of other iron implements from the mausoleum in far greater detail than has been attempted so far. This project begins from the premise that iron objects are in fact a very important but often-forgotten category of evidence in the Qin story, one that can provide significant new insight on changes of industrial scale and scope in an 'Axial Age' of imperial transformation across Europe and Asia.

QIN Imperial Iron Project将在QIN第一皇帝的陵墓中对铁对物体进行系统研究。秦川的纪念性综合体在世界范围内著名，并且经常被唤起，以表达秦帝国在缩影中的运作方式。它的陶土军队配备了数千种功能性的青铜武器，但相比之下，奇怪的是，到公元前1千年的这个阶段，铁工具在综合体中并不是更为突出。然而，陵墓现场的新挖掘的铁剑和一套来自坟墓M1的铁盔甲提供了一个特权的新分析有利位置，并促使我们考虑到陵墓中的数百种其他铁工具，远远超过了。到目前为止已尝试。该项目始于以下前提：QIN故事中铁对象实际上是一个非常重要但经常被遗忘的证据类别，它可以在帝国转型的“轴向时代”中对工业规模和范围的变化提供重大新的见解。整个欧洲和亚洲。