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Patrick Edward McGovern (born December 9, 1944) is the Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. In the popular imagination, he is known as the "Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages" ==Career== His academic background combined the physical sciences, archaeology, and history–an A.B. in Chemistry from Cornell University, graduate work in neurochemistry at the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology and Literature from the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Over the course of his more than three decade career at the Penn Museum, his laboratory has been at the cutting-edge of applying new scientific techniques to archaeology, often referred to as archaeometry or archaeological science. A cesium magnetometer survey in 1978 in the Baq'ah Valley of Jordan, a Penn Museum project under the direction of McGovern, located one of the largest early Iron Age burial caves ever found in the southern Levant.〔P.E. McGovern, 1986. ''The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Central Transjordan: The Baq'ah Valley Project, 1977-1981.'' University of Pennsylvania Museum Monograph 65. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13677.html〕 Some of the 227 excavated individuals in the tomb were adorned with pairs of iron anklets and bracelets. The analyses showed that the metal was a mild steel, among the earliest instances of this iron-carbon alloy ever found.〔P.E. McGovern, 1988. The Innovation of Steel in Transjordan. ''Journal of Metals'' 40: 50-52. http://www.penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/JMetals.pdf〕 The ancient pottery and glass vessel technology programs developed in the 1980s were highly innovative at the time and remain so.〔P.E. McGovern, 1989. Ancient Ceramic Technology and Stylistic Change. Pp. 63-81 in ''Scientific Analysis in Archaeology and its Interpretation'', ed. J. Henderson. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, Monograph 19; UCLA Institute of Archaeology, Archaeological Research Tools 5. Oxford: Oxford University. http://www.penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/PotterySWAsia1.pdf P.E. McGovern, S.J. Fleming and C.P. Swann 1993. The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shan: Glass and Faience Production and Importation in the Late New Kingdom. ''Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research'' 290-291: 1-27. http://www.penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/BASORBethShanglass.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Edward McGovern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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