Collaborative Research: SPARC: Conducting Collaborative Research and Leveraging Resources to Advance Spatial Archaeometry

协作研究：SPARC：开展协作研究并利用资源推进空间考古学

• 批准号: 2309809
• 负责人: Jesse Casana
• 金额: $ 15.24万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SPARC; Conducting; Leveraging

The Spatial Archaeometry Research Collaborations (SPARC) Program, led by faculty at the University of Arkansas’ Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) and Dartmouth’s Spatial Archaeometry Lab (SPARCL), work to promote the use of geospatial technologies in archaeological research. A suite of emerging technologies, including aerial and satellite imaging, large-array terrestrial geophysics, multi-sensor drone-based mapping, and 3D visualization are rapidly transforming how archaeologists discover, document, and interpret the human past. However, the high costs of instrumentation and software combined with the technical expertise these technologies require create significant hurdles for researchers, preventing their widespread integration into archaeological investigations. The SPARC program seeks to bridge these funding and expertise gaps by making the equipment, software, and experienced staff at CAST and SPARCL available to archaeological research projects through a competitive, peer-reviewed application process. SPARC provides a proven model for democratizing access to a variety of specialist skills and technologies that collectively are transforming archaeological research. In addition, the SPARC program plays an important role in advancing educational and outreach initiatives through classroom programming and instructional tutorials, in-person workshops at national conferences, open-access online webinars, and research residencies at Dartmouth or University of Arkansas. The SPARC program also supports diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives by expanding access to technologies, particularly for historically underrepresented scholars, early career researchers, and scholars at less well-resourced or minority serving institutions (MSIs). The innovative application of emerging geospatial technologies in archaeological research has assumed an ever-growing importance in recent years, as conventional modes of archaeological investigation face increasing challenges. Geopolitics and conflict make fieldwork in many parts of the world impossible, concerns for Indigenous, descendant, and other stakeholder communities raise ethical issues with traditional archaeological excavations, and the contemporary funding landscape often inhibits the sorts of large-scale, long-term fieldwork that has been a mainstay of archaeological practice for generations. Spatial archaeometry offers the ability to explore the archaeological record in new ways, using methods and approaches that are non-invasive, non-destructive, and easily replicable, yet also produce robust insights not achievable through traditional modes of investigation. Moreover, the close collaboration of technical experts with archaeologists working in many different world regions and focusing on a wide range of periods helps to facilitate technological and methodological innovation, as researchers work together to develop creative solutions to challenging problems in data collection and analysis. The frequently transformative results produced through SPARC-supported projects, essentially pilot studies in spatial archaeometric research, are often the basis for longer-term investigations and ongoing collaborations.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.

空间考古学研究合作（SPARCL）计划由阿肯色州大学高级空间技术中心（CAST）和达特茅斯的空间考古学实验室（SPARCL）的教师领导，致力于促进地理空间技术在考古学研究中的应用。一系列新兴技术，包括航空和卫星成像、大阵列地面地球物理学、多传感器无人机测绘和3D可视化，正在迅速改变考古学家发现、记录和解释人类历史的方式。然而，仪器和软件的高成本以及这些技术所需的技术专长给研究人员带来了重大障碍，阻碍了他们广泛融入考古调查。该项目旨在通过竞争性的同行评审申请流程，为考古研究项目提供CAST和SPARCL的设备，软件和经验丰富的工作人员，以弥补这些资金和专业知识的差距。考古学研究所提供了一个行之有效的模式，使人们能够民主地获得各种专业技能和技术，这些技能和技术共同改变了考古学研究。此外，该计划在推进教育和推广活动中发挥了重要作用，通过课堂编程和教学辅导，在全国会议上的人研讨会，开放式在线网络研讨会，并在达特茅斯或阿肯色州大学的研究驻地。该计划还支持多样性，公平和包容性的举措，通过扩大获得技术，特别是对于历史上代表性不足的学者，早期职业研究人员，以及在资源不足或少数民族服务机构（MSIs）的学者。 近年来，新兴地理空间技术在考古研究中的创新应用越来越重要，因为传统的考古调查模式面临越来越多的挑战。地缘政治和冲突使得世界上许多地方的实地考察变得不可能，对土著、后裔和其他利益相关者社区的担忧引发了传统考古发掘的道德问题，当代的资金状况往往抑制了几代人以来一直是考古实践支柱的大规模、长期的实地考察。空间考古学提供了以新的方式探索考古记录的能力，使用非侵入性，非破坏性和易于复制的方法和途径，但也产生了通过传统调查模式无法实现的强大见解。此外，技术专家与在世界许多不同地区工作并专注于广泛时期的考古学家的密切合作有助于促进技术和方法创新，因为研究人员共同努力，为数据收集和分析中的挑战性问题制定创造性的解决方案。通过SPARC支持的项目，主要是空间考古研究的试点研究，产生的经常性的变革性成果往往是长期调查和持续合作的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。