U.S.-Argentina Cooperative Science Program: Taphonomy, Technology and Paleoecology on the Eastern Pampas of Argentina

美国-阿根廷合作科学奖 将支持艾琳的合作 德克萨斯理工大学的约翰逊和古斯塔沃 拉普拉塔国立大学政治系， Argentina. 该项目旨在探索 埋藏学、技术和古生态学 早期的Pamerican遗址， 是否有证据表明早期人类 地点发生在南美洲。 在过去的20年里，晚更新世和 早全新世早期人类遗址 发现于潘帕斯草原。 这些网站是 对于理解早期人类的起源 阿根廷和南美洲。 该项目将 进行骨骼研究， 形成和扰动过程 土地、生计基础和社会 狩猎采集者占据的 在这些早期的遗址中， 资源、环境和气候 这些早期的职业。 的 研究人员将分析骨骼材料， 阿根廷的四个站点，将提供 的变化范围的广泛观点， 活动，地形设置，空间， 时间 阿根廷方面将出资 进入研究地点， 当地考古学和实验室设施。 美方将贡献其在美国的专业知识 草原模型和训练， 阿根廷学生，包括一名将 在约翰逊的实验室里待了半年

This US-Argentina Cooperative Science award will support the collaboration of Eileen Johnson of Texas Tech University and Gustavo Politis of the National University of La Plata, Argentina. The project aims to explore the taphonomy, technology, and paleoecology of early Pampean sites, in an assessment of whether there is evidence that Early Man kill- sites occur in South America. In the last 20 years, late Pleistocene and early Holocene Early Man sites have been discovered on the Pampas. These sites are critical to understanding the early peopling of Argentina and South America. This project will conduct bone studies aimed at delineating formation and disturbance processes at the sites, the subsistence base and social structure of the hunter-gatherers occupying these early sites, the use of bone as a resource, and the environmental and climatic setting of these early occupations. The researchers will analyze bone material from four sites in Argentina, which will provide a broad view of the range of variation in activities, topographic settings, space, and time. The Argentine side will contribute access to the research sites, expertise in local archaeology, and laboratory facilities. The US side will contribute its expertise in US grasslands models and training for several Argentine students, including one who will spend a half-year in Johnson's lab.