The Effects of Surface Treatment on Ceramic Performance Characteristics

表面处理对陶瓷性能特性的影响

• 批准号: 8901797
• 负责人: Michael Schiffer
• 金额: $ 7.66万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-09-01 至 1992-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8901797&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Effects; Surface; Treatment; Ceramic; Performance

Dr. Schiffer and his colleagues will conduct research in experimental archaeology to determine the effects of various surface treatments on a number of important performance characteristics of low-fired, traditional ceramics. The relationship between such treatments as burnishing, smudging, corrugation, cord-marking, and stuccoing and the dependent variables including thermal shock resistance, heating effectiveness of cooking vessels, abrasion resistance, firing success, impact resistance and permeability, and evaporative cooling effectiveness will be examined. Experiments will be conducted on replicas (vessels and briquettes) using behaviorally relevant testing procedures. In a final stage of the project, predictions based on the experimental studies will be subjected to tests using ethnographic evidence. Two years of support will allow Dr. Schiffer's Laboratory of Traditional Technology to continue innovative studies of traditional ceramics. Although archaeologists have focussed on surface treatments of pottery for decades and devised elaborate typologies to categorize them, they have always assumed that variation reflects "style" and does not serve a functional purpose. Dr. Schiffer has argued that, to the contrary, seemingly insignificant differences may affect the functional characteristics of a vessel and that traditional potters realized this and designed pieces with such considerations in mind. Because standard techniques of ceramic analysis were not developed for pottery fired at low temperatures and not directed towards such functional questions, Dr. Schiffer has devised and applied a series of behaviorally relevant techniques. This research is important because it will allow archaeologists to analyze pottery in a new and potentially significant way. Potsherds preserve well in archaeological sites and in many regions constitute the major class of data recovered. Therefore, they are the focus of much archaeological attention. With the techniques developed by Dr. Schiffer, these remains should yield new classes of information.

希弗博士和他的同事们将进行研究， 实验考古学，以确定各种 表面处理对一些重要性能 低火传统陶瓷的特点。 的 抛光，涂抹， 装饰、线标记和粉刷以及相关的 变量包括抗热震性、加热 炊具效能，耐磨性，烧成 成功，抗冲击性和渗透性，和蒸发 将检查冷却效果。 实验将 在复制品（容器和煤饼）上进行， 相关测试程序。 在项目的最后阶段， 基于实验研究的预测将受到 到使用人种学证据的测试。 两年的支持将使希弗博士的实验室 传统技术继续创新研究 传统陶瓷 尽管考古学家一直在关注 几十年来一直致力于陶器的表面处理， 类型学来分类它们，他们总是假设， 变化反映了“风格”，并不服务于功能 目的. 希弗博士认为，恰恰相反， 看似微不足道的差异可能会影响功能 传统陶艺家意识到 这一点和设计作品与这样的考虑。 因为陶瓷分析的标准技术 为低温烧制的陶器而开发， 针对这些功能性问题，希弗博士设计并 应用了一系列行为相关的技术。 这项研究很重要，因为它将使考古学家 以一种新的、具有潜在意义的方式来分析陶器。 陶器碎片在考古遗址中保存完好， 区域构成了恢复的数据的主要类别。 因此，我们认为， 它们是考古学关注的焦点。 与 希弗博士发明的技术这些遗骸应该能 新的信息类别。