An Analysis of Kalinga Technology

Kalinga技术分析

• 批准号: 8710275
• 负责人: William Longacre
• 金额: $ 8.71万
• 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: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-07-15 至 1989-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8710275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Analysis; Kalinga; Technology

This grant permits Dr. Longacre to return to Northern Luzon in the Phillipines to continue research among the Kalinga people. The Kalinga are a "traditional" group in which both pottery and basketry is locally produced. With the help of both U.S. and Phillipino assistants Dr. Longacre will continue his work to learn how material objects are produced, used and finally discarded. In particular, he will continue to follow a population of over 2,000 pots in use and through household inventories to obtain an accurate picture of just how long pots last. He will also undertake detailed studies of the surface alteration of pottery which results from use and make a substantial collection of "used" pots for research and teaching. This pottery project is an outgrowth of prior NSF supported research. Dr. Longacre will also begin a basketry study which is important because while women produce pottery, baskets are made by men. Thus it will be possible to compare male.female differences in production. Although the team is working with living people, the goal of this research is archaeological. Because potsherds are well preserved they are often recovered in archaeological contexts and in many sites constitute the majority of the excavated finds. From these archaeologists must make inferences about the people who made them, and unless one knows how pottery is produced and how it functions in a society this can be extremely difficult to do. In this project the study of use wear should make it possible to infer the uses to which particular vessels were put. Through study of breakage rates it should be possible, on the basis of archaeologically recovered remains, to determine the number of total pots in the population.

这笔赠款允许Longuck博士返回菲律宾的北吕宋岛，继续在卡林加人中进行研究。卡林加人是一个“传统”群体，陶器和篮子都是在当地生产的。在美国和菲律宾助手的帮助下，朗卡克博士将继续他的工作，了解物质物品是如何生产、使用和最终丢弃的。特别是，他将继续跟踪使用中的2000多个锅的人口，并通过家庭库存来准确了解锅的使用时间。他还将对陶器因使用而产生的表面变化进行详细研究，并收集大量用于研究和教学的“二手”陶器。这个陶器项目是之前美国国家科学基金会资助的研究的结果。朗卡克博士还将开始一项编篮研究，这项研究很重要，因为当女性制作陶器时，编篮是由男性制作的。因此，就有可能比较男女在生产上的差异。尽管该团队是在与活人合作，但这项研究的目标是考古。由于陶片保存完好，它们经常在考古背景下被发现，在许多遗址中，它们构成了出土的大部分文物。考古学家必须从这些考古学家那里推断出陶器的制造者，除非有人知道陶器是如何生产的，以及它在一个社会中是如何发挥作用的，否则这可能是极其困难的。在这个项目中，对使用磨损的研究应该能够推断特定容器的使用情况。通过对破碎率的研究，应该可以根据考古发现的遗骸来确定人口中的盆栽总数。