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.

由阿肯色大学高级空间技术中心（CAST）和达特茅斯（Dartmouth）的空间考古计算实验室（SPARCL）领导的空间考古研究合作（SPARC）计划，努力促进考古学研究中地球化学技术的使用。一系列新兴技术，包括空中和卫星成像，大阵列地球物理学，基于多传感器的无人机映射以及3D可视化正在迅速改变考古学家如何发现，记录和解释人类过去的方式。但是，仪器和软件的高昂成本与技术专长相结合，这些技术需要为研究人员构成重大障碍，从而阻止了它们在考古研究中的宽度融合。 SPARC计划旨在通过通过竞争性，经过同行评审的申请流程来使档案研究项目的设备，软件和经验丰富的员工在Cast and SPARCL中弥合这些资金和专业差距。 SPARC提供了一个良好的模型，以使访问各种专业技能和技术的访问权力，这些模型共同改变了档案。此外，SPARC计划在通过课堂节目和教学教程，国家会议的亲自讲习班，开放式在线网络研讨会以及达特茅斯或阿肯色大学的研究居住地来推进教育和宣传计划中发挥着重要作用。 SPARC计划还通过扩大获得技术的访问范围来支持多样性，公平和包容性倡议，特别是对于历史上代表性不足的学者，早期职业研究人员和学者的资源不足或少数族裔服务机构（MSIS）。随着常规考古投资模式面临越来越大的挑战，新兴地理空间技术在档案研究中的创新应用在档案研究中变得越来越重要。地缘政治和冲突使世界许多地方的实地考察不可能，对土著，后代和其他利益相关者社区的关注，通过传统的考古发掘提出了道德问题，而当代的资金景观通常会抑制各种大规模的长期现场工作，这是一代人的考古学实践的托管。空间考古测量法具有使用无创，无毁灭性且易于复制的方法和方法以新方式探索考古记录的能力，又可以通过传统的投资方式实现强大的见解。此外，随着研究人员共同努力开发创造性的解决方案来挑战数据收集和分析问题，技术专家与在许多不同世界地区工作并关注各个时期的考古学家的紧密合作有助于促进技术和方法论创新。通过SPARC支持的项目产生的经常变革性结果，基本上是空间档案计量研究中的试点研究，通常是长期研究和持续合作的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。