Dissertation Research: Indus Tradition Craft Production and The Distribution of High Temperature Manufacturing at Harappa, Pakistan

小行星9408937 在Jonathan Kenoyer博士的指导下，石楠米勒女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。在位于巴基斯坦印度河流域的哈拉帕遗址工作，她将对这个大型城市中心进行地表调查。实地考察包括两个部分。首先，她将记录和绘制工艺活动的位置，如冶炼，陶瓷和贝壳生产，以及石器的使用。然后，她将进行质子梯度计调查，以绘制地下烟火技术指标的分布。这些数据结合在一起将使她能够重建工艺活动的组织，并确定地下和地下材料之间的关系。 哈拉帕等遗址具有重大的考古意义，因为它们证明了一个文明的兴起，显然独立于中国和近东。到公元前三千年，印度河流域出现了大型城市中心，繁荣起来，然后消失了。看来脆弱的沙漠土壤的盐碱化在它们的消亡中起了重要作用。印度河流域的发展轨迹似乎与其他地区不同，因为与后者相比，精英统治阶级的出现并不明显。考古学家希望了解是什么因素导致了这种现象的兴起和维持。通过她对工艺生产的分析，米勒女士将从一个方面来看待这个问题。通过对生产过程及其空间分布的检查，米勒女士希望确定它在多大程度上受到集中控制。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将为一个极其重要的考古遗址提供新的线索。它将增加我们对导致复杂社会兴起的过程的理解，并将有助于培养有前途的年轻科学家。 ***

9408937 Kenoyer Under the direction of Dr. Jonathan Kenoyer, Ms. Heather Miller will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. Working at the site of Harappa, located in the Indus Valley of Pakistan, she will conduct a surface survey of this large urban center. The fieldwork consists of two parts. First she will note and map the location of craft activities such as smelting, ceramic and shell production, and stone tool use. She will then conduct a proton gradiometer survey to plot the distribution of underground pyrotechnological indicators. These data taken together will allow her both to reconstruct the organization of craft activities and to determine the relationship between subsurface and sub-surface materials. Sites such as Harappa are of major archaeological interest because they attest to the rise of a civilization, apparently independent of those from China and the Near East. By the third millennium BC large urban centers arose in the Indus valley, flourished and then disappeared. It appears that salinization of fragile desert soils played a major role in their demise. The trajectory of development appears different in the Indus than other regions because, in contrast to the latter, it is not clear that an elite ruling class emerged. Archaeologists wish to understand what factors led to the rise and maintenance of this phenomenon. Through her analysis of craft production, MS Miller will look at one aspect of this issue. Through an examination of the production process and its spatial distribution, MS Miller hopes to determine the extent to which it was subject to centralized control. This research is important for several reasons. It will shed new light on an extremely important archaeological site. It will increase our understanding of the processes which led to the rise of complex society and will assist in the training of a promising young scientist. ***