IGERT: Integrated Graduate Training in Archaeological Sciences

亚利桑那大学的IGERT项目是考古科学跨学科领域出现的产物，其中一个或多个科学探究领域的专业知识与考古理论和方法的培训相结合。该计划将考古学、地球科学、物理学、树木年轮研究、材料科学和工程整合到一个连贯的实地和实验室培训计划中，为博士毕业生在学术界以及公共和私营部门的就业做好准备。考古学的研究，以及人类物种进化和多样化的环境背景，需要从科学和工程中汲取多种技术的应用。这些技术包括：(a)考古和古生态记录测年技术；(b)重建过去的气候、动植物群落；(c)查明埋藏地点和海底地点；(d)重建已灭绝的技术及其对过去环境的影响；(e)通过追踪无机物质的地质来源来识别过去的交换系统。IGERT项目的毕业生将在这些领域中的一个或多个领域获得特定的专业知识，同时具备广泛的考古科学知识，再加上考古理论和技术的坚实基础，结合在课堂、实验室和实地工作中获得的经验。IGERT的支持还将为少数民族本科生和高中科学教师提供在该大学考古实验室实习的机会，并将与IGERT支持的研究生合作，为学校科学课程编写材料。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足培养具有多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以满足未来职业需求。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的项目共同跨越了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。

The University of Arizona's IGERT program is an outgrowth of the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of archaeological science, in which expertise in one or more fields of scientific inquiry is integrated with training in archaeological theory and method. The program will integrate archaeology, geosciences, physics, tree-ring studies, and materials science and engineering into a coherent program of field- and laboratory-based training that will prepare doctoral graduates for employment in academia as well as the public and private sectors. The study of archaeology, and of the environmental contexts within which the human species evolved and diversified, requires the application of multiple techniques drawn from the sciences and engineering. These include techniques for (a) dating archaeological and paleoecological records; (b) reconstructing past climates, plant, and animal communities; (c) locating buried and submarine sites; (d) reconstructing extinct technologies and their impacts on past environments; and (e) identifying past exchange systems by tracing inorganic materials to their geological sources. Graduates of the IGERT program will acquire specific expertise in one or more of these areas, together with a knowledge of the broad range of archaeological sciences, plus a firm grounding in archaeological theory and techniques, blending experiences acquired in classrooms, laboratories and fieldwork. IGERT support will also provide minority undergraduate students and high school science teachers internships in archaeometric laboratories at the University, and will be paired with IGERT-supported graduate students to develop materials for school science curricula.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.