Computerization of the Mesoamerican and South American Archaeological Collections of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

皮博迪自然历史博物馆中美洲和南美洲考古收藏的计算机化

• 批准号: 9409028
• 负责人: Michael Coe
• 金额: $ 10.49万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-09-15 至 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9409028&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computerization; Mesoamerican; South; American; Archaeological

Coe With National Science Foundation support, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will computerize the catalogue records of its Mesoamerican and South American archaeological collections. The collections have been acquired over a period of more than 130 years and constitute a significant body of material of great temporal depth and spatial breadth. They have been crucial in solving important culture-history questions and continue to provide a valuable resource for the study of pre-Conquest, complex cultures. The collections include material acquired through systematic excavations from the Andean area in the south to the Valley of Mexico in the north. Currently these collections are recorded in 66,000 catalogue entries in handwritten, bound ledgers. This paper-based format makes access to crucial descriptive data difficult and novel searches of the data are impossible. With NSF support, this information will be entered into Peabody Museum's computerized relational database system. This will permit quick and efficient access and significantly enhance the research potential of the collection. The system will also make the data available over Internet, greatly increasing opportunities for use. Museum collections contain valuable information which permit researchers to examine many scientific questions. The Peabody materials can shed new light on how complex societies develop and are maintained. They can illuminate principles of social organization and change in technologically simple societies and increase our understanding of human - environment interactions. This grant is important because it will significantly increase the research potential of the collections.

耶鲁·皮博迪自然历史博物馆的COE在国家科学基金会的支持下，将计算其中美洲和南美考古收藏的目录记录。这些收藏已在超过130年的时间内获得，构成了大量时间深度和空间宽度的重要物质。它们对于解决重要的文化历史问题至关重要，并继续为征服前复杂文化的研究提供宝贵的资源。这些收藏包括通过系统发掘从南部的安第斯地区到北部墨西哥山谷获得的材料。目前，这些收藏量记录在66,000个目录条目中，并用手写，绑定的分类帐。基于纸张的格式使得难以访问至关重要的描述性数据，并且不可能对数据进行新颖的搜索。在NSF的支持下，此信息将输入Peabody博物馆的计算机关系数据库系统。 这将允许快速有效的访问权限，并显着增强收集的研究潜力。该系统还将通过Internet提供数据，大大增加了使用的机会。 博物馆收藏包含有价值的信息，使研究人员可以研究许多科学问题。 Peabody材料可以使社会如何发展和维护。他们可以阐明社会组织的原则，并在技术上简单的社会中变化，并增强我们对人类环境互动的理解。 这项赠款很重要，因为它将大大提高收藏的研究潜力。