Qin Imperial Iron, Tomb M1 and the First Emperor's Mausoleum: Character, Context and Consequence

秦皇铁、M1 墓和始皇陵：特征、背景和后果

• 批准号: AH/W009552/1
• 负责人: Andrew Bevan
• 金额: $ 99.85万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW009552%2F1
• 关键词: Qin; Imperial; Iron; Tomb; M1

The Qin Imperial Iron project will pioneer systematic study of iron objects found in the Qin First Emperor's mausoleum. The monumental complex of Qin Shihuang is famous worldwide and often evoked as an expression of the workings of the Qin Empire in microcosm. Its Terracotta Army was equipped with thousands of functional bronze weapons, while in contrast it remains curious that iron implements are not more prominent in the complex by this stage of the 1st millennium BCE. However, newly-excavated finds of iron swords and a suit of iron armour from tomb M1 at the mausoleum site now provide a privileged new analytical vantage point and prompt us to consider the hundreds of other iron implements from the mausoleum in far greater detail than has been attempted so far. This project begins from the premise that iron objects are in fact a very important but often-forgotten category of evidence in the Qin story, one that can provide significant new insight on changes of industrial scale and scope in an 'Axial Age' of imperial transformation across Europe and Asia.

秦皇铁项目将开创对秦始皇陵墓中发现的铁器的系统研究。秦始皇的纪念建筑群闻名于世，常常被视为秦帝国运作的缩影。它的兵马俑配备了数千件实用的青铜武器，而相比之下，令人好奇的是，到公元前一千年的这个阶段，铁制工具在建筑群中并没有变得更加突出。然而，陵墓遗址 M1 墓中新出土的铁剑和一套铁甲现在提供了一个独特的新分析有利位置，并促使我们比迄今为止尝试更详细地考虑陵墓中的数百件其他铁器。该项目的前提是，铁器实际上是秦故事中非常重要但经常被遗忘的一类证据，它可以为欧洲和亚洲帝国转型的“轴心时代”工业规模和范围的变化提供重要的新见解。