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名美国科学家参与一项 美国--日本研讨会的起源，发展和传播 史前北太平洋-白令海海洋文化， 1993年5月31日至6月6日在夏威夷举行。 主办单位为教授 阿肯色州大学的艾伦·麦卡特尼和广明教授 北海道大学的冈田。 除了美国和日本， 与会者，来自加拿大和俄罗斯的学者将被邀请。 的 研讨会的目的是讨论考古数据，方法， 和理论方法，适合于研究史前 北太平洋-白令海地区的海洋适应性， 强调平行和不同的文化进程， 亚洲和北美之间的文化联系。 海洋适应的动力学和历史知识是 充分了解北太平洋和白令海的基础 本土文化 最早到达日本列岛的民族 从亚洲大陆，从楚科奇半岛到达阿拉斯加 在更新世时期可能已经部分适应了海洋环境。 在过去的一万年中， 开发了这些地区丰富的海洋资源， 历史上的爱斯基摩人，印第安人和西北海岸的印第安人在北部 美国和爱斯基摩人，海洋楚科奇人，科里亚人，和阿伊努人在 亚洲 这次会议将是第一次机会， 在邻近地区工作的考古学家讨论实质性的， 方法论和理论问题的细节。

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.