U.S.-Japan Seminar: Origins, Development, and Spread of Prehistoric North Pacific-Bering Sea Maritime Cultures/June 1993/Honolulu, Hawaii

该奖项支持14名美国科学家参加将于1993年5月31日至6月6日在夏威夷举行的关于史前北太平洋-白令海海洋文化的起源、发展和传播的美日研讨会。联合组织者是阿肯色大学的艾伦·麦卡特尼教授和北海道大学的冈田博明教授。除美国和日本外，还将邀请加拿大和俄罗斯的学者。研讨会的目的是讨论适合于研究北太平洋-白令海地区史前海洋适应的考古数据、方法和理论方法，重点是平行和不同的文化进程以及亚洲和北美之间可能的文化联系。了解海洋适应的动态和历史是充分了解北太平洋和白令海土著文化的基础。在更新世时期，最早从亚洲大陆到达日本岛屿和从楚科奇半岛到达阿拉斯加的人可能已经部分适应了海洋环境。在过去一万年的大部分时间里，随后的沿海社会开发了这些地区丰富的海洋资源，在北美产生了历史上的爱斯基摩人、阿卢埃特人和西北海岸的印第安人，在亚洲产生了爱斯基摩人、海上楚科奇人、科里亚克人和阿伊努人。这次会议将是这么多考古学家第一次有机会在邻近地区详细讨论实质性、方法论和理论问题。

This award supports the participation of 14 U.S. scientists in a U.S.-Japan Seminar on the Origins, Development, and Spread of Prehistoric North Pacific-Bering Sea Martime Cultures, to be held in Hawaii May 31 - June 6, 1993. The co-organizers are Professor Allen McCartney of the University of Arkansas and Professor Hiroaki Okada of Hokkaido University. In addition to the U.S. and Japanese participants, scholars from Canada and Russia will be invited. The purpose of the seminar is to discuss archaeological data, methods, and theoretical approaches appropriate to the study of prehistoric maritime adaptations in the North Pacific-Bering Sea regions, with emphasis on parallel and divergent cultural processes and possible cultural connections between Asia and North America. Knowledge of the dynamics and history of maritime adaptations is basic to a full understanding of North Pacific and Bering Sea native cultures. Earliest peoples reaching the Japanese islands from the Asian mainland and reaching Alaska from Chukotka Peninsula during Pleistocene times may have been, in part, maritime adapted. Subsequent coastal societies of much of the past 10,000 years have exploited the rich marine resources of these regions, giving rise to historic Eskimos, Aluets, and Northwest Coast Indians in North America and to Eskimos, Maritime Chukchi, Koriaks, and Ainu in Asia. This conference will be the first opportunity for so many archaeologists working in contiguous areas to discuss substantive, methodological, and theoretical issues in detail.