REU Site: From Field to Lab: Bringing Science to Underserved Undergraduate Students through Archaeology

REU 网站：从现场到实验室：通过考古学将科学带给服务不足的本科生

• 批准号: 1262184
• 负责人: E. Charles Adams
• 金额: $ 24.62万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-11-15 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262184&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Field; Lab; Bringing

Students participating in the Rock Art Ranch Research Enrichment for Undergraduates (RAR-REU) program gain experience in archaeological survey and excavation while in the field for five weeks at a private ranch on the Colorado Plateau in Arizona followed by two weeks in diverse research labs at the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. While in the field, students are immersed in a research program that explores the history of the region over the past 5000 years. The goals of RAR-REU are to involve and engage undergraduates in all aspects of this research process. Engagement is achieved through lectures by archaeologists, indigenous anthropologists, and staff, and through field trips to experience local archaeology and indigenous cultures. Involvement includes hands-on experiences with excavation and survey methods, mapping, documentation, and work in the field lab. Each student identifies a research project that is conducted with guidance from faculty mentors and presented on the last two days of the REU period. On the University of Arizona campus the students have two weeks to work in conservation, zooarchaeology, biological archaeology, and ceramics/lithics labs at ASM to gain experience in analytical methods essential to answering modern archaeological problems.Intellectual Merit: Two years of survey on RAR has discovered 14 preceramic, Basketmaker II (BMII) sites along canyons on the west side of the ranch, not including the previously documented BMII petroglyph site in Chevelon Canyon. The RAR-REU program will focus its research on this community seeking to provide a context for the meaning of the glyphs and to indirectly date them through collection of radiocarbon samples from burned features that are abundant in the BMII sites. The concentration of BMII sites on RAR and the presence of extensive imagery in the canyon provide an opportunity to understand BMII land and resource use, the length of time sites were in use, whether or not the settlements were focused on farming or hunting and gathering, and the role of petroglyph sites in the creation of the BMII landscape.Broader Impacts and Integration of Research and Education: RAR-REU is designed to provide an immersive, science-based experience to undergraduate students through interaction with numerous professionals representing different disciplines and perspectives, including native scholars, field archaeologists, conservators, and museum professionals. Students work closely with faculty mentors to develop their research projects. Recruitment to RAR-REU focuses on local universities, colleges, and community colleges having significant Native American representation. We also work with tribal cultural preservation programs to help recruit participants. In addition, we target small colleges and community colleges having significant underrepresented groups, including women. Collaborations on research projects between students and faculty are presented at local and national professional archaeology meetings and published as multi-authored articles and book chapters. The benefits of the proposed research and activities to society are in modeling numerous careers in social science that are possible for underrepresented groups and in demonstrating the process of scientific enquiry and its value in increasing our understanding of not only the present world, but of past worlds and societies.

参加岩石艺术牧场研究丰富本科生（RAR-REU）计划的学生获得考古调查和挖掘的经验，而在现场五个星期在亚利桑那州科罗拉多高原的私人牧场，然后在图森亚利桑那大学校园的不同研究实验室两个星期。在实地考察时，学生们沉浸在一个研究项目中，探索该地区过去5000年的历史。RAR-REU的目标是让本科生参与研究过程的各个方面。参与是通过考古学家，土著人类学家和工作人员的讲座，并通过实地考察，体验当地考古和土著文化。参与包括挖掘和测量方法，绘图，文档和现场实验室工作的实践经验。每个学生确定一个研究项目，该项目在教师导师的指导下进行，并在REU期间的最后两天提出。在亚利桑那大学的校园里，学生们有两周的时间在ASM的保护、动物考古学、生物考古学和陶瓷/石器实验室工作，以获得回答现代考古问题所必需的分析方法的经验。对RAR进行了两年的调查，在牧场西侧的峡谷沿着发现了14个陶瓷前体，篮子制造者II（BMII）遗址，不包括之前记录的位于Chevelon峡谷的BMII石油勘探现场。RAR-REU计划将把研究重点放在这个社区上，寻求为象形文字的含义提供一个背景，并通过从BMII站点丰富的燃烧特征中收集放射性碳样本来间接确定它们的年代。在RAR上的BMII站点的集中和峡谷中广泛的图像的存在提供了一个机会，以了解BMII土地和资源的使用，时间的长度在使用中，无论定居点是否专注于农业或狩猎和采集，以及在创建BMII景观中的石油开采地点的作用。RAR-REU旨在通过与代表不同学科和观点的众多专业人士的互动，为本科生提供沉浸式的，以科学为基础的体验，包括本地学者，实地考古学家，保护员和博物馆专业人士。学生与教师导师密切合作，以开发他们的研究项目。RAR-REU的招聘重点是当地大学，学院和社区学院，这些学院具有重要的美国土著代表性。我们还与部落文化保护计划合作，帮助招募参与者。此外，我们的目标是小型学院和社区学院有显着的代表性不足的群体，包括妇女。学生和教师之间的研究项目合作在当地和国家专业考古会议上提出，并作为多作者的文章和书籍章节出版。拟议的研究和活动对社会的好处是，为代表性不足的群体建立了许多社会科学职业的模型，并展示了科学探究的过程及其在增加我们对当今世界和过去世界和社会的理解方面的价值。