EgypToolWear: Metalwork Wear Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Tools

EgypToolWear：古埃及工具的金属制品磨损分析

• 批准号: EP/X026434/1
• 负责人: Andrea Dolfini
• 金额: $ 25.97万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX026434%2F1
• 关键词: EgypToolWear; Metalwork; Wear; Analysis; Ancient

EgypToolWear is a groundbreaking analysis of the function and uses of metal craft tools from late Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Egypt (c.3500 - 1070 BC). This is the first ever project to deploy Metalwork Wear Analysis (henceforth MWA) to precisely understand how copper-alloy tools were used in early Egypt, for what crafts, and with what bodily gestures and engagements. The research is grounded in a multidisciplinary approach combining MWA (both low- and high-magnification) with (a) a critical reassessment of written and iconographic sources (which are abundant and often detailed in this context); (b) metallurgical analysis; and (c) experimental archaeology. A corpus of c.170 copper-alloy tools of various periods, provenances, shapes, and presumed uses will be researched, giving much-needed temporal and geographical depth to the research. The project is important in that it deploys an innovative analytical and experimental approach to answer questions that have hitherto only been address by textual and iconographic studies. The new approach will overturn deep-seated misconceptions concerning Egyptian metal tools, e.g., the conservative character and lack of evolution in tool making and using. Furthermore, the project's importance lies in its being the very first large application of MWA to Egyptian bronzes. As such, it will reinvigorate a rather traditional field of scholarship and open new research avenues into early Egyptian metals. This strand will develop independently after the project's end thanks to planned MWA training and engagement initiatives (including in Egypt itself). This is a game-changer for the discipline of Egyptology and for the Fellow, who through the Action will acquire new analytical and interpretative skills enhancing his career prospects. In turn, he will transfer his specialist knowledge of predynastic and dynastic Egypt to Newcastle, where the archaeology of ancient Egypt is neither researched nor meaningfully taught.

Egyptoolwear是对埃及晚期和青铜时代（C.3500 - 1070 BC）的金属工艺工具功能和使用的开创性分析。这是有史以来第一个部署金属制品磨损分析（此后MWA）的项目，以精确了解如何在埃及早期使用铜合金工具，用于什么手工艺品以及身体手势和互动。这项研究以多学科方法为基础，该方法将MWA（低和高磁化）与（a）（a）对书面和图像来源进行严格的重新评估（在这种情况下是丰富的，通常在这种情况下详细介绍）； （b）冶金分析； （c）实验考古学。将研究各个时期，证明，形状和假定用途的C.170铜合金工具的语料库，为研究提供了急需的时间和地理深度。该项目很重要，因为它部署了一种创新的分析和实验方法来回答迄今仅通过文本和肖像研究解决的问题。新方法将推翻有关埃及金属工具的深刻误解，例如，工具制造和使用中的保守性和缺乏进化。此外，该项目的重要性在于它是MWA在埃及青铜器上的首次大型应用。因此，它将振兴传统的奖学金领域，并将新的研究途径开放到早期的埃及金属中。由于计划的MWA培训和参与计划（包括在埃及本身），该项目将在项目结束后独立发展。这是埃及学学科和同伴的游戏规则改变者，他们通过行动将获得新的分析和解释技能，以增强他的职业前景。反过来，他将把他的专业知识和王朝埃及的专家知识转移到纽卡斯尔，那里的古埃及考古学既没有研究也没有有意义的教导。