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·菲利普斯和布鲁斯·格拉德菲尔特将在埃及西奈沙漠进行一季的考古实地考察。他们将在属于艾哈迈里传统、距今约 30,000 至 35,000 年前的遗址进行小规模发掘。他们还将重点关注这一时期的相关沉积物，这些沉积物可能含有花粉和其他遗迹，可以进行小规模的环境重建。这项工作是更大规模项目的第一步，该项目团队希望挖掘整个遗址以重建特定活动，并将遗址特定数据整合到更广泛的环境背景中。这项研究应该揭示艾哈迈拉群体所采用的基本生存策略。 阿姆哈里亚人的历史可以追溯到近东的旧石器时代晚期，代表了与解剖学上的现代人类独特相关的最早的文化之一。它特别令人感兴趣的是其有限的区域分布。菲利普斯博士认为，阿姆哈里亚人制定了生存策略，有助于适应斑驳的马赛克环境，并且群体规模和流动最大限度地利用了广泛的区域有限资源。他希望收集的数据将使他能够检验这一假设。 这项研究很重要，原因有几个。它将提供许多考古学家感兴趣的数据。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。