RAPID: Salvage and Processing of Samples from Utqiagvik, Barrow, Alaska

RAPID：对来自阿拉斯加巴罗市乌特恰维克的样品进行打捞和处理

• 批准号: 1240989
• 负责人: Anne Jensen
• 金额: $ 1.91万
• 依托单位: Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Salvage; Processing; Samples; Utqiagvik

The site of Utqiaġvik is the source from which the modern community of Barrow developed. It has been subject to archaeological investigations at several periods (Ford 1959:67-73, Hall 1990:8-30), culminating in the multi-year Utkiavik Project (Dekin 1990, Hall and Fullerton 1990. Despite this extensive excavation history, there are only nine C14 dates from the entire site. A number of archaeological samples that had been retained at Binghamton University, Dekin's home institution, when the main collection was returned to the North Slope Borough have recently been rediscovered. Binghamton wishes to return these samples to NSB or dispose of them. Currently, the Inupiat Heritage Center (IHC) Artifact Storage Facility in Barrow, where the original artifacts are stored and the natural repository of this previously unknown sample collection, does not have enough storage space to accept and properly store the discovered samples. This RAPID project will provide the funds to purchase a freezer for segregated storage of the samples that need to remain frozen until processed. The samples include organic items, bulk samples of indeterminate nature that may contain artifacts, and items retained as C14 samples, included logs and grass. In addition, the project will include the processing and analysis of organic samples and the preparation and proper curation of any artifacts that may be found in the bulk samples.

乌特卡维克遗址是现代巴罗社区发展的源头。它已受到考古调查在几个时期（福特1959年：67-73，霍尔1990年：8-30），最终在多年乌特基亚维克项目（Dekin 1990年，霍尔和富勒顿1990年。尽管有如此广泛的挖掘历史，整个遗址只有9个C14日期。德金的家乡宾厄姆顿大学（Binghamton University）在主要收藏品被送回北坡自治市镇时保留的一些考古样本最近被重新发现。宾厄姆顿希望将这些样本返还给NSB或处置。目前，位于巴罗的因纽特人遗产中心（IHC）储藏设施没有足够的储存空间来接受和妥善储存发现的样本。该RAPID项目将提供资金，用于购买冷冻箱，以便隔离储存需要冷冻直至处理的样本。这些样品包括有机物、可能含有人工制品的性质不确定的散装样品，以及作为C14样品保留的物品，包括原木和草。 此外，该项目还将包括有机样品的处理和分析，以及可能在批量样品中发现的任何文物的制备和妥善保管。