The Ahmarian Tradition of the Upper Paleolithic in Northeastern Sinai

西奈半岛东北部旧石器时代晚期的艾哈迈里传统

• 批准号: 9311368
• 负责人: James Phillips
• 金额: $ 3.18万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-08-01 至 1996-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9311368&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ahmarian; Tradition; Upper; Paleolithic; Northeastern

9311368 Phillips With National Science Foundation support Drs. James Phillips and Bruce Gladfelter will conduct one season of archaeological fieldwork in the Sinai Desert of Egypt. They will carry out small scale excavations at sites which belong to the Ahmarian tradition and date to approximately 30,000 to 35,000 years ago. They will also focus on associated sediments from this period which are likely to contain pollen and other remains permitting fine scale environmental reconstruction. This work constitutes the first step in a larger scale project in which the team hopes to excavate entire sites to reconstruct specific activities and to integrate site specific data into a broader environmental context. The research should reveal the underlying subsistence strategies employed by Ahmarian groups. The Amharian dates to the early Upper Paleolithic period in the Near East and represents one of the earliest cultures uniquely associated with anatomically modern humans. What makes it of particular interest is its limited areal distribution. Dr. Phillips believes that Amharian peoples developed subsistence strategies which facilitated adaptation to what was a patchy mosaic environment and that group size and movement maximized use of a wide range of areal limited resources. The data he wishes to collect will allow him to examine this hypothesis. This research is important for several reasons. It will provide data of interest to many archaeologists. It will also increase our understanding of how humans at a simple level of technology adapted to a marginal semi-arid environment.

9311368菲利普斯 在国家科学基金会的支持下，詹姆斯菲利普斯博士和布鲁斯Gladfelter博士将在埃及西奈沙漠进行一个季节的考古实地考察。他们将在属于Ahmarian传统的遗址进行小规模挖掘，可追溯到大约30，000至35，000年前。他们还将重点研究这一时期的相关沉积物，这些沉积物可能含有花粉和其他允许进行精细环境重建的遗迹。这项工作是一个更大规模项目的第一步，该团队希望挖掘整个遗址以重建特定活动，并将特定遗址的数据纳入更广泛的环境背景。研究应揭示阿赫马尔团体所采用的基本生存战略。 阿姆哈拉人可以追溯到近东旧石器时代早期，代表了与解剖学上的现代人类唯一相关的最早的文化之一。使它特别令人感兴趣的是它有限的地域分布。菲利普斯博士认为，阿姆哈拉人制定的生存战略，促进了适应什么是一个不完整的马赛克环境和群体规模和运动最大限度地利用广泛的区域有限的资源。他希望收集的数据将使他能够检验这一假设。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将为许多考古学家提供感兴趣的数据。它还将增加我们对人类如何在简单的技术水平上适应边缘半干旱环境的理解。