An Analysis of Kalinga Technology

这笔赠款允许朗埃克博士返回北方吕宋岛， 菲律宾人继续在卡林加人中进行研究。 卡林加人是一个“传统”群体， 编织品是当地生产的。在美国和 菲律宾助理朗埃克博士将继续他的工作， 了解物质对象是如何生产，使用和最终 丢弃。特别是，他将继续跟踪一个人口 使用中的2,000多个锅，并通过家庭库存， 获得一个精确的图片，究竟有多久锅持续。他将 还进行详细的研究，表面的变化， 使用后产生的陶器，收藏量很大 用于研究和教学的“二手”罐子。这个陶器项目是 这是先前NSF支持的研究的结果。朗埃克医生会 我也开始一个篮筐研究，这是重要的，因为虽然 女人做陶器，男人做篮子。因此将 可以比较男性和女性在生产上的差异。 虽然这个团队是在和活人一起工作， 研究是考古学。因为陶片保存完好 它们通常是在考古环境中被发现的， 发掘出的文物大部分来自这些遗址。从这些 考古学家们必须推断出 他们，除非一个人知道陶器是如何生产的， 在一个社会中，这可能是非常困难的。在 该项目的使用磨损研究应使其有可能 推断特定船只的用途。通过 破碎率的研究应该是可能的，根据 考古发现的遗骸，以确定 人口中的总罐。

This grant permits Dr. Longacre to return to Northern Luzon in the Phillipines to continue research among the Kalinga people. The Kalinga are a "traditional" group in which both pottery and basketry is locally produced. With the help of both U.S. and Phillipino assistants Dr. Longacre will continue his work to learn how material objects are produced, used and finally discarded. In particular, he will continue to follow a population of over 2,000 pots in use and through household inventories to obtain an accurate picture of just how long pots last. He will also undertake detailed studies of the surface alteration of pottery which results from use and make a substantial collection of "used" pots for research and teaching. This pottery project is an outgrowth of prior NSF supported research. Dr. Longacre will also begin a basketry study which is important because while women produce pottery, baskets are made by men. Thus it will be possible to compare male.female differences in production. Although the team is working with living people, the goal of this research is archaeological. Because potsherds are well preserved they are often recovered in archaeological contexts and in many sites constitute the majority of the excavated finds. From these archaeologists must make inferences about the people who made them, and unless one knows how pottery is produced and how it functions in a society this can be extremely difficult to do. In this project the study of use wear should make it possible to infer the uses to which particular vessels were put. Through study of breakage rates it should be possible, on the basis of archaeologically recovered remains, to determine the number of total pots in the population.