Artifact Repatriation

文物归还

• 批准号: 0240750
• 负责人: Anthony Marks
• 金额: $ 0.4万
• 依托单位: Southern Methodist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-15 至 2003-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0240750&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Artifact; Repatriation

From 1969 through 1981 the National Science foundation awarded seven grants to Dr. Anthony Marks to conduct archaeological research in the Israeli Central Negev Desert. A number of important open air sites were excavated and the results published in a multi-volume series. The sites are important because they document the transitional period which led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans and the appearance of a modern range of fundamental behaviors. Following accepted standards of the time, the collections were divided between the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem and Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dr. Marks' home institution. Such a practice is no longer followed because of the difficulty it imposes on researchers who wish to study an entire collection. Dr. Marks is now retiring from SMU and the institution no longer wishes to maintain either his or others' Old World archaeological collections. With NSF support, Dr. Marks and a student will systematize and pack the SMU material for shipping to the Israel Antiquities Authority which will reintegrate the collections and pay the actual transport costs.This project is significant because it will make an important archaeological collection available in its entirely for scientific study.

从1969年到1981年，国家科学基金会向Anthony Marks博士提供了七笔赠款，用于在以色列中部内盖夫沙漠进行考古研究。挖掘了一些重要的露天遗址，并以多卷丛书的形式出版了结果。这些遗址很重要，因为它们记录了导致解剖学上现代人的出现和一系列现代基本行为出现的过渡时期。按照当时公认的标准，这些藏品被耶路撒冷的以色列文物局和马克斯博士的故乡南方卫理公会大学(SMU)瓜分。这种做法不再被遵循，因为它对希望研究整个收藏的研究人员施加了困难。马克斯博士现已从新加坡管理大学退休，该机构不再希望保留他或其他人的旧大陆考古收藏品。在NSF的支持下，Marks博士和一名学生将SMU的材料系统化并打包，运往以色列文物局，以色列文物局将重新整合这些收藏品并支付实际运输费用。这个项目意义重大，因为它将使一项重要的考古收藏品完全用于科学研究。