Lifting the Lid: Investigating Ceramic Variability and Social Practices at the Onset of the Neolithic in the Outer Hebrides Through Organic Residue

揭开盖子：通过有机残留物调查外赫布里底群岛新石器时代开始时的陶瓷变异和社会实践

• 批准号: 2607375
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2607375
• 关键词: Lifting; Lid; Investigating; Ceramic; Variability

The project I am proposing is titled: 'Lifting the Lid: Investigating Ceramic Variability and Social Practices at the Onset of the Neolithic in theOuter Hebrides Through Organic Residue Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating.'.This project will explore the emergence and use of pottery at the very Northern fringes of Neolithic Europe. The focus of this study will be on theOuter Hebrides and Orkney. I will analyse a large assemblage of ceramics using organic residue analysis and stable isotope analysis. This will beto determine whether subsitence and cultural practices change over time or whether like the corresponding pot forms, remaining 'conservative'over time. Furthermore, if there is change in subsistence patterns in the early-middle Neolithic it will be interpreted whether this is due to theintroduction of new farming practices or environmental change.The contents of uniform vessel forms found in different regions and associated with different types of human activity will also be compared. Forexample, Unstan-type pots are usually associated with domestic settlements on the Outer Hebrides but in funerary contexts on Orkney.By using recently developed techniques in the direct-dating of pottery lipids then absolute dates will be acquired from pots in tombs which eitherare undated or have previously shown discordant dates.This project will allow a much greater characterisation of the subsistence and cultural patterns of these regions. This will contribute to a largerunderstanding of the manifestation of Neolithic practices as it spread across Europe.

我提议的项目名为：“揭开盖子：通过有机残留物分析和放射性碳测年法调查外赫布里底群岛新石器时代开始时的陶瓷变异性和社会实践。'。该项目将探索新石器时代欧洲北方边缘陶器的出现和使用。本研究的重点将放在外赫布里底群岛和奥克尼群岛。我将使用有机残留物分析和稳定同位素分析来分析一大批陶瓷。这将决定生存和文化实践是否随着时间的推移而改变，或者是否像相应的壶形式一样，随着时间的推移而保持“保守”。此外，如果新石器时代早中期的生活方式发生了变化，则将解释这是由于新的耕作方式的引入还是环境的变化，并将不同地区发现的与不同人类活动类型有关的统一容器形式的内容进行比较。例如，Unstan型陶器通常与外赫布里底群岛的家庭定居点有关，但在奥克尼的丧葬环境中。通过使用最近开发的技术，直接测定陶器脂质的年代，然后从坟墓中的陶器中获得绝对日期，这些陶器要么没有日期，要么以前显示不一致的日期。该项目将允许对这些地区的生存和文化模式进行更大的描述。这将有助于更广泛地了解新石器时代的做法，因为它在欧洲蔓延的表现。