Mineral Pigment Provisioning and Utilization in a Long Term Context

矿物颜料的长期供应和利用

• 批准号: 2124829
• 负责人: Brandi MacDonald
• 金额: $ 10.02万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124829&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mineral; Pigment; Provisioning; Utilization; Long

Humans are characterized by complex behaviors and social interactions. Understanding what drove such developments, when they occurred, and how they enabled people to migrate, adapt, and thrive in new and changing environments are prominent themes in archaeology. To examine these themes, archaeologists often turn to artifact provenance studies in order to test hypotheses on mobility, resource use, and social networks. This study will use mineral pigment provenance to examine early and sustained human responses to new and subsequently changing environments in a traditional context. The region preserves a deep temporal record of human occupation, and an archaeological record spanning fluctuations in climate and sea level, habitat change, and megafauna extinctions. The people inhabiting this area used mineral pigments continuously paralleling cultural transitions in diet, mobility, and stone tool technologies. The datasets produced in the course of this project will be compared to existing data on climate, diet, and mobility to develop new insights into the lifeways of early humans. This project will support the research programs of two early career scientists and support the training and education of graduate students in STEM. The project will make impactful contributions to local communities by engaging site owners as research partners and promote an exemplary model for active and reciprocal collaborative research with descendant Indigenous communities.The researchers will conduct the first stage of a two stage project that seeks to examine long-term patterns in mobility and resource use through a lens of mineral pigment acquisition. The study will integrate field-based research with advanced scientific techniques to characterize the long-term history of mineral pigment collection, preferences, and use.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人类的特征是复杂的行为和社会互动。了解是什么推动了这种发展，何时发生，以及它们如何使人们在新的和不断变化的环境中迁移、适应和繁荣，是考古学的重要主题。为了检验这些主题，考古学家经常转向人工制品的来源研究，以测试关于流动性、资源使用和社会网络的假设。这项研究将使用矿物色素的来源来检查早期和持续的人类对新的和随后在传统背景下变化的环境的反应。该地区保存了人类活动的深层时间记录，以及跨越气候和海平面波动、栖息地变化和巨型动物灭绝的考古记录。居住在这个地区的人们不断地使用矿物颜料，同时在饮食、流动性和石器技术方面也发生了文化转变。在这个项目过程中产生的数据集将与现有的气候、饮食和流动性数据进行比较，以开发对早期人类生活方式的新见解。该项目将支持两名早期职业科学家的研究项目，并支持STEM研究生的培训和教育。该项目将通过吸引场地所有者作为研究伙伴，为当地社区做出有影响力的贡献，并促进与后代土著社区进行积极和互惠合作研究的示范模式。研究人员将进行一个两阶段项目的第一阶段，该项目旨在通过矿物色素获取来检查流动性和资源利用的长期模式。该研究将结合实地研究和先进的科学技术来描述矿物颜料收集、偏好和使用的长期历史。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Codesigned Archaeological Research in the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia

• DOI: 10.1017/aap.2023.10
• 发表时间: 2023-08-01
• 期刊: ADVANCES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Wallis，Lynley A.;O'Sullivan，Susan;O'Brien，Justin
• 通讯作者: O'Brien，Justin