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

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，调查外赫布里底地区新石器时代初期的陶瓷变异性和社会实践。”这个项目将探索新石器时代欧洲最北部边缘的陶器的出现和使用。这项研究的重点将集中在外赫布里底和奥克尼。我将使用有机残留物分析和稳定同位素分析来分析大量的陶瓷组合。这将是为了确定替代品和文化习俗是否会随着时间的推移而变化，或者是否像相应的盆栽形式一样，随着时间的推移保持“保守”。此外，如果新石器时代早期和中期的生存模式发生了变化，将解释这是由于新的耕作方式的引入还是环境的变化，也将比较不同地区发现的与不同类型的人类活动有关的统一船只形式的内容。例如，Unstan型陶器通常与外赫布里底群岛上的家庭聚居地有关，但在奥克尼岛的葬礼上。通过使用最近开发的陶器脂直接测年技术，可以从没有日期或以前显示不一致日期的墓穴中的陶器中获得绝对日期。这个项目将允许更多地描述这些地区的生存和文化模式。这将有助于更大程度地了解新石器时代的做法在整个欧洲传播时的表现形式。

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.