Three Thousand Years of Rubbish and Ritual in the Thames: A Long Durée Investigation of Riverine Deposition Powered by Collaborative Partnerships.

泰晤士河三千年的垃圾和仪式：由合作伙伴支持的对河流沉积的长期调查。

• 批准号: 2740200
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 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=studentship-2740200
• 关键词: Three; Thousand; Years; Rubbish; Ritual

This pioneering research project will interpret the practice and meaning of river deposition over the long durée from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, c. 2200 BC to AD 1500, enhanced through cross-sector collaboration. Rivers have had a profound influence on the course of human history as vital axes of communication, rich reservoirs of resources, and arenas for otherworldly veneration (Edgeworth 2011). Some rivers, such as the Thames and the Rhine, were especially valued, receiving the deposition of objects over many centuries, and in some cases millennia. Such objects thus provide a unique archive for unravelling the changing meanings and beliefs that humans attached to watery places over expansive timescales. The long-term persistence of such practices has been highlighted by previous research, but only in generalised terms or as a passing reference in period-specific studies. My project will be the first to implement a genuinely long-term, geographically focused approach to the study of river deposition. It will generate new narratives through novel scales of data, inter-period comparisons and frameworks of interpretation, maximised through non-academic partnerships.My deep-time exploration will be situated at the heart of The Middle Thames Archaeology Partnership (MTAP), a collaboration between the University of Reading's Archaeology department and a network of stakeholder organisations initiated to promote the archaeological heritage of the Middle Thames as an under-studied region. My research will provide a key vehicle for advancing the aspirations of MTAP and a model for engaged doctoral research working at the interface between academic, commercial, governmental and third-sector organisations. A systematic, long durée investigation of river finds has been identified as a key research priority for the Thames as one richest sources of such objects in north-west Europe (Booth et al. 2007, 209; Naylor 2011; Humphries 2019). Collaboration with MTAP will add substantial value to my research by unlocking hard-to-access data and contextual sources and providing a framework for engaging public audiences across the Thames Valley region. My research aims to understand the changing relationship between riverscapes and human practice and experience in the past through a long-term investigation of riverine deposition in the Middle Thames from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, c. 2200 BC to AD 1500This aim will be met through the following objectives:To produce a comprehensive multi-period corpus of river finds from the Middle Thames drawing upon a range of existing archaeological and newly exploited archival sources.To elucidate temporal trends in the range and treatment of river finds based on the analysis of typological variation and biographical details breakage patterns.To analyse and map the overall spatial distribution of river finds to identify associations with crossing-points, confluences and other fluvial features, and to explore how practice varies across different stretches of the river at different times.To incorporate data on river dredging to critically evaluate the extent to which the spatial patterning of river finds has been shaped by recovery practices. To analyse select sites of long-term deposition at a more refined level drawing upon excavated data, place-names and cartographic sources to understand how the development of these locales relates to the changing configuration of the wider cultural landscape.

这个开创性的研究项目将解释从青铜时代到中世纪时期的漫长时期河流沉积的实践和意义。公元前 2200 年至公元 1500 年，通过跨部门合作得到加强。河流作为重要的交通轴、丰富的资源库和超凡脱俗的崇拜场所，对人类历史进程产生了深远的影响（Edgeworth 2011）。泰晤士河和莱茵河等一些河流尤其受到重视，它们在几个世纪甚至数千年的时间里沉积了物体。因此，这些物体提供了一个独特的档案，用于揭示人类在漫长的时间尺度上对水域所赋予的不断变化的意义和信仰。以前的研究已经强调了这种做法的长期存在，但只是概括性的，或者作为特定时期研究的顺便参考。我的项目将是第一个实施真正长期的、以地理为重点的河流沉积研究方法的项目。它将通过新颖的数据规模、跨时期比较和解释框架产生新的叙述，并通过非学术伙伴关系最大化。我的深度探索将位于泰晤士河中部考古合作伙伴关系（MTAP）的核心，这是雷丁大学考古系和利益相关者组织网络之间的合作，旨在促进泰晤士河中部的考古遗产作为一个待研究的领域 地区。我的研究将为推进 MTAP 的愿景提供关键工具，并为在学术、商业、政府和第三部门组织之间从事博士研究提供模型。对河流发现物进行系统性、长期的调查已被确定为泰晤士河的一项关键研究优先事项，泰晤士河是西北欧此类物品最丰富的来源之一（Booth 等人，2007, 209；Naylor，2011；Humphries，2019）。与 MTAP 的合作将解锁难以访问的数据和上下文来源，并提供一个吸引泰晤士河谷地区公众受众的框架，从而为我的研究增添巨大价值。我的研究旨在通过对从青铜时代到中世纪时期泰晤士河中游河流沉积的长期调查，了解河流景观与过去人类实践和经验之间关系的变化。公元前2200年至公元1500年这一目标将通过以下目标来实现：利用一系列现有的考古和新开发的档案来源，生成泰晤士中部河流发现的综合多时期资料库。根据类型变化和传记细节破坏模式的分析，阐明河流发现的范围和处理的时间趋势。分析和绘制河流发现的总体空间分布，以确定与 结合河流疏浚数据，批判性地评估恢复实践对河流空间格局的影响程度。利用挖掘的数据、地名和地图来源，对长期沉积的选定地点进行更精细的分析，以了解这些地点的发展如何与更广泛的文化景观的变化结构相关。