Dissertation Research: Blade Production in the Early Levantine Mousterian

论文研究：黎凡特莫斯特早期的叶片生产

• 批准号: 9507585
• 负责人: Anthony Marks
• 金额: $ 0.79万
• 依托单位: Southern Methodist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-01 至 1997-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9507585&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Blade; Production; Early

Marks/Monigal Under the direction of Dr. Anthony Marks, Ms. Katherine Monigal will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will study collections of lithic materials which have been excavated from Mousterian sites in Israel and are stored in museums in both the United States and Israel. The lithics are all attributable to an archaeological industry termed "Tabun-D"; are all older than 40,000 years and may span a period of up to 200,000 years. The sites themselves are located in a number of environmental regions. Ms. Monigal will describe and measure a large number of attributes on selected pieces and with these data will reconstruct the technology used to make stone tools. Archaeologists traditionally focus on the final products which are produced and not on the process used to reach this end. With the data collected, Ms. Monigal will then compare Tabun-D sites across time and environmental subzone, attempt to determine whether technological data support the incorporation of these sites into a single cultural tradition and try to explain the causes of variation which may be observed. Based on work in Europe, archaeologists have argued that the production of certain stone tool types, such as blades, is tightly associated with anatomically modern humans. In this region of the world, the emergence of blade producing industries dates to about 40,000 years ago. However, as Ms. Monigal and others have noted, blades appear much earlier in sites in the Near East and a number of assemblages support this conclusion. Using this single characteristic, archaeologists have grouped these occurrences under the heading "Tabun-D." However it is very unclear what this designation means in social terms and whether the makers of this industry belonged to the same group or tradition. Until this is done, it is not possible to ask whether this data is relevant to questions such as the emergence of anatomically modern humans. Through her study of technological process, Ms. Mo nigal will be able to address this question in an original way. This research is important for several reasons. It will produce data of interest to many archaeologists. It will providfe insight into the emergence of modern humans and help to train a promising young scientist.

Marks/Monigal 在安东尼·马克斯博士的指导下，凯瑟琳·莫尼加尔女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将研究从以色列的Mousterian遗址挖掘出来的石器材料，这些材料存放在美国和以色列的博物馆里。这些石制品都是由一个名为“Tabun-D”的考古工业产生的;它们的年龄都超过40，000年，跨度可能长达200，000年。这些场址本身位于若干环境区域。Monigal女士将描述和测量所选物品的大量属性，并利用这些数据重建用于制造石器的技术。 考古学家传统上关注的是最终产品，而不是达到这一目的的过程。Monigal女士将利用收集到的数据，对塔邦-D遗址进行跨时间和跨环境分区的比较，试图确定技术数据是否支持将这些遗址纳入单一的文化传统，并试图解释可能观察到的变异原因。 根据欧洲的工作，考古学家认为，某些石器类型的生产，如刀片，与解剖学上的现代人类密切相关。在世界的这个地区，刀片生产工业的出现可以追溯到大约40，000年前。然而，正如Monigal女士和其他人所指出的，在近东的遗址中，叶片出现的时间要早得多，一些组合支持这一结论。 利用这一单一特征，考古学家将这些事件归类为“塔崩-D”。“然而，目前还不清楚这个名称在社会方面意味着什么，以及这个行业的制造商是否属于同一群体或传统。在此之前，不可能询问这些数据是否与解剖学上现代人类的出现等问题有关。通过对工艺流程的研究，莫尼加尔女士将能够以独创的方式解决这个问题。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将产生许多考古学家感兴趣的数据。它将提供对现代人类出现的洞察力，并有助于培养一个有前途的年轻科学家。