Landscapes of Production: Exploring the Palaeaoenvironmental Context of Stone Tool Quarrying, Manufacture, Use and Deposition on Neolithic Shetland

生产景观：探索新石器时代设得兰石器开采、制造、使用和沉积的古环境背景

• 批准号: 2442529
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen's University Belfast
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2442529
• 关键词: Landscapes; Production; Exploring; Palaeaoenvironmental; Context

"The Landscapes of Production project will explore the palaeoenvironmental context of felsite tool quarrying in Neolithic Shetland. Shetland is the northernmost part of Europe where agriculture was practised during the Neolithic, and shortly after arriving on Shetland in the early 4th millennia BC, people began to quarry and manufacture polished stone tools on an impressive scale (Cooney et al 2019). The preservation of these quarries is unprecedented, yet we know little about wider Early Neolithic society. The project will address this gap by using geospatial and palaeaoenvironmental analysis to explore the environmental context of these artefacts, including important questions surrounding the function of tools, and the rate and timing of deforestation during the Neolithic period. The project will have three work packages: 1) Data Collation and synthesis: This step will involve the collation of existing archaeological and palaeoecological data into a geospatial database, and comparing these to similar datasets on Orkney and The Western Isles. The geospatial component will form the data management backbone of the project 2) Data collection and fieldwork: Palaeoenvironmental data for Shetland focuses largely on Mainland. The small number of cores from elsewhere on the island suggest differing patterns of deforestation and landscape change in Prehistory (Edwards et al. 2005). Given the incredibly rich prehistoric archaeological record on Shetland, there are still relatively few detailed palaeoenvironmental studies of vegetation and landscape change. This step will involve the collection of cores at two contemporary Neolithic sites associate with felsite tools at Modesty (settlement) and on Ronas Hill (quarry). Pollen analysis and associated proxies (e.g. microscopic charcoal, non-pollen palynomorphs, and sediment geochemistry) will be combined with 14C dating to produce new high-resolution records of vegetation and landscape change for these areas, with specific focus on the Neolithic period. 3) Data management and analysis: This step will use data on archaeology and palaeoecology collected in step 1 and new palaeoecological data collected in step 2, to explore ways to model this relationship in past landscapes, using spatial statistics and land-use modelling approaches. It will then identify significant relationships between landscape change and archaeological activity."

"The Landscapes of Production project will explore the palaeoenvironmental context of felsite tool quarrying in Neolithic Shetland. Shetland is the northernmost part of Europe where agriculture was practised during the Neolithic, and shortly after arriving on Shetland in the early 4th millennia BC, people began to quarry and manufacture polished stone tools on an impressive scale (Cooney et al 2019). The preservation of these quarries is unprecedented, yet we know little about wider Early Neolithic society. The project will address this gap by using geospatial and palaeaoenvironmental analysis to explore the environmental context of these artefacts, including important questions surrounding the function of tools, and the rate and timing of deforestation during the Neolithic period. The project will have three work packages: 1) Data Collat​​ion and synthesis: This step will involve the将现有的考古和古生态数据整理到地理空间数据库中，并将其与奥克尼和西部群岛上的类似数据集进行了比较。地理空间组件将构成项目2）数据收集和实地调查的数据管理骨干：Shetland的古环境数据主要集中在大陆上。岛上其他地方的核心数量少数表明史前森林砍伐和景观变化的不同模式（Edwards等，2005）。鉴于设得兰群岛上令人难以置信的史前考古记录，关于植被和景观变化的详细古环境研究仍然相对较少。此步骤将涉及在谦虚（定居点）和罗纳斯山（Ronas Hill）（采石场）的两个当代新石器时代的新石器时代的核心收集。花粉分析和相关的代理（例如，微观木炭，非木制palynomorphs和Sediment地球化学）将与14C约会相结合，以产生这些地区的新的高分辨率植被和景观变化的记录，并针对新石器时代。 3）数据管理和分析：此步骤将使用步骤1中收集的考古学和古生态学数据以及在步骤2中收集的新古生态数据，以探索使用空间统计和土地利用建模方法在过去的景观中建模这种关系的方法。然后，它将确定景观变化与考古活动之间的重要关系。”