Dissertation Research: Middle and Later Stone Age Land Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya

小刘易斯9320534 在R博士的指导下。巴里刘易斯，西贝尔巴鲁特女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将研究肯尼亚Lukenya Hill遗址的考古材料，并在当地进行有限的挖掘。卢肯亚山对非洲史前史学家来说非常重要，因为该地区包含了许多从近代到5万年前的独立遗址。除提供了丰富的石器材料外，还发现了大量的动物化石。Barut女士将专注于石制品，并研究将原材料转化为成品工具的过程。 与其他科学家合作，将进行中子活化分析，以确定石头的来源。黑曜石水化测年将允许不同地点和水平的年龄评估。在此基础上，将有可能深入了解随着时间的推移不断变化的土地使用和流动战略。 在过去的10万年里，非洲的社会和技术组织发生了重大变化，其结果是人们基本上具有现代文化能力。迄今为止的信息表明，这种转变首先发生在撒哈拉以南非洲，因此相当多的考古注意力集中在这一地区和时间段。 不幸的是，跨越这一过渡的网站数量很少。卢肯雅山就是其中之一，正因为如此，巴鲁特女士的研究具有重大意义。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将为现代文化能力的出现提供新的启示。它将提供许多考古学家感兴趣的数据，并协助培训一名有前途的年轻科学家。 ***

9320534 Lewis Under the direction of Dr. R. Barry Lewis, Ms. Sibel Barut will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will study archaeological materials from the site of Lukenya Hill, Kenya and also conduct limited excavation at the locality. Lukenya Hill is extremely important for Africanist prehistorians because the area contains a number of individual sites which span the period from recent times to over 50,000 years ago. Excavations have yielded not only abundant lithic materials but also large series of faunal remains. Ms. Barut will focus on the lithics and study the processes employed to convert raw materials into finished tools. In collaboration with other scientists, neutron activation analyses will be conducted to determine the sources for the stone. Obsidian hydration dating will allow age assessments of the different sites and levels. On this basis it will be possible to gain insight into changing land use and mobility strategies over time. Within the last 100,000 years major changes in social and technological organization occurred in Africa and the result was people with essentially modern cultural capacities. Information to date indicates that this transformation occurred first in sub Saharan Africa and therefore considerable archaeological attention has been focussed on this region and time period. Unfortunately, the number of sites which span this transition are very few. Lukenya Hill is one of them and because of this MS. Barut's study is of major significance. This research is important for several reasons. It will shed new light on the emergence of modern cultural capacities. It will provide data of interest to many archaeologists and assist in the training of a promising young scientist. ***