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Decay of Ancient Stone Monuments

古代石碑的腐烂

基本信息

批准号：
AH/G015163/1
负责人：
Aron Mazel
金额：
$ 3.11万
依托单位：
Newcastle University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2009 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG015163%2F1
关键词：
Decay Ancient Stone Monuments

项目摘要

Ancient stone monuments (ASMs), such as standing stones and rock art panels, reflect Britain's rich prehistoric past. Often isolated in the countryside, ASMs present a primordial allure and provide evocative visual links with our prehistoric ancestors. These unique, non-renewable heritage resources have great cultural and aesthetic value; frequently, acquiring national significance. However, they also have economic consequence due to their value to tourism and the image of Britain. Despite their apparent robustness and resilience, they often reside in rural landscapes that are under continuous threat from human and agro-industrial activity as well as the vagaries of climate change, especially changes in precipitation patterns. Further, the majority of previous research into stone monuments has focused on built structures, which are similar in some ways to ASMs, but they also differ significantly because ASMs exist within the landscape and more ecological factors influence their fate. This cluster will gather experts to address scientific and heritage questions needed to conserve and manage ASMs in the countryside. Although this ASM Research Cluster (ASMRC) crosses several Science and Heritage Programme themes, it is submitted under 'resilience and adaptation' because ASM decay is intrinsically affected by environmental variability. As such, the ASMRC will bring together experts from environmental sciences, such as geochemistry, molecular microbiology, ecology, geomorphology, botany, and hydrology; heritage studies, such as archaeology; and managers of heritage resources within government and non-profit agencies. The technical goals of the cluster will be to identify environmental processes that promote ASM decay (e.g., biological, chemical, and physical weathering); determine how such processes might be affected by changing climate and environmental conditions; prioritise research to generate more effective treatments of decay to improve conservation practices; investigate monument monitoring procedures in light of new scientific methods; and develop ASM heritage science as a platform for future heritage and scientific investigation.To ensure the most appropriate cluster team, we will follow a two-phase development plan. A strategic planning group (SPG) will first meet to prioritise key issues and identify 'outside' experts needed to fill gaps in the knowledge pool. Commitments have already been obtained from 11 experts to work in the SPG, including 6 'scientists' and 5 'heritage professionals' from academia and heritage agencies. The SPG then will identify and recruit an extended complement of experts (tactical working group; TWG) from which sub-teams will be formed and proposals prepared to ensure continuation of the ASMRC. This plan will be fulfilled by 2 two-day workshops that will include field visits to sites in North East England to help individuals less familiar with ASMs to visualise context and an advertised public meeting to inform broader science and heritage communities of the goals and actions of the cluster.ASMRC results will be disseminated through three 'popular' articles on heritage science issues related to ASMs; one for the heritage community on science issues related to conservation; one for the science community on heritage issues as platforms for scientific inquiry; and one aimed at the general public on heritage science and ASMs. Further, a web-based dissemination programme will be developed, including an emailing distribution list, an internet blog site, and news and information nodes cross-linked among web pages of participants. In addition, knowledge derived from the cluster will contribute to research-led teaching and students will be encouraged to attend the TWG workshop, which will be promoted via the NU Press Office. Finally, we will motivate all participants to act as 'heritage science ambassadors" within their own professional circles to expand links between science and heritage.

古老的石头纪念碑（ASM），如立石和岩石艺术面板，反映了英国丰富的史前历史。ASMs通常孤立于乡村，呈现出原始的魅力，并提供与我们史前祖先的令人回味的视觉联系。这些独特的、不可再生的遗产资源具有巨大的文化和美学价值，往往具有国家意义。然而，由于它们对旅游业和英国形象的价值，它们也有经济后果。尽管它们具有明显的健壮性和复原力，但它们往往居住在农村地区，不断受到人类和农工活动以及气候变化，特别是降水模式变化的威胁。此外，以前对石碑的研究大多集中在建筑结构上，这些建筑结构在某些方面与ASMs相似，但它们也有很大的不同，因为ASMs存在于景观中，更多的生态因素影响着它们的命运。该集群将聚集专家，解决保护和管理农村ASMs所需的科学和遗产问题。虽然这个ASM研究集群（ASMRC）跨越了几个科学和遗产计划的主题，它是在“恢复力和适应”下提交的，因为ASM衰变本质上受到环境变化的影响。因此，ASMRC将汇集来自环境科学的专家，如地球化学，分子微生物学，生态学，地貌学，植物学和水文学;遗产研究，如考古学;以及政府和非营利机构内的遗产资源管理人员。该集群的技术目标将是确定促进个体和小型金矿衰变的环境过程（例如，生物，化学和物理风化）;确定这些过程如何受到气候和环境条件变化的影响;优先研究产生更有效的腐烂处理方法，以改善保护实践;根据新的科学方法调查古迹监测程序;并发展ASM遗产科学，作为未来遗产和科学调查的平台。为了确保最合适的集群团队，我们会分两个阶段发展。一个战略规划小组（SPG）将首先开会，确定关键问题的优先次序，并确定填补知识库空白所需的“外部”专家。已经有11名专家承诺在SPG工作，其中包括来自学术界和遗产机构的6名“科学家”和5名“遗产专业人员”。然后，SPG将确定并招募更多的专家（战术工作组; TWG），从中组建小组并准备提案，以确保ASMRC的持续性。这一计划将通过两个为期两天的研讨会来完成，其中包括实地考察英格兰东北部的遗址，帮助不太熟悉ASMs的个人形象化地了解背景，以及一个宣传的公开会议，向更广泛的科学和遗产界通报集群的目标和行动。ASMRC的成果将通过三篇关于ASMs相关遗产科学问题的“流行”文章来传播;一个是为遗产界举办的有关保护的科学问题的研讨会;一个是为科学界举办的有关作为科学探究平台的遗产问题的研讨会;还有一个是为公众举办的有关遗产科学和ASMs的研讨会。此外，还将制定一个网络传播方案，包括一个电子邮件发送名单、一个互联网博客网站以及在与会者网页之间相互连接的新闻和信息节点。此外，从集群中获得的知识将有助于以研究为主导的教学，并鼓励学生参加TWG研讨会，该研讨会将通过NU新闻办公室推广。最后，我们将鼓励所有参与者在自己的专业圈子内担任“遗产科学大使”，以扩大科学与遗产之间的联系。