Dissertation Research: Diachronic Change in the Levantine Natufian

在Lawrence博士的指导下，Thomas Berger先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。他将研究从以色列、约旦和叙利亚的考古遗址中挖掘出的大量材料。所有这些都可以追溯到纳图夫时期，这一时期在近东出现定居农业社会之前。除了建筑、场地生态和时间顺序之外，他还将重点关注在所有地方大量回收的石器和碎屑。他将试图找到石材原料的来源，并重建用于制造成品工具的过程。他还将研究这些是如何随着时间而变化的。在此基础上，他将深入了解纳图夫人的社会和经济组织，并确定他们如何迁移和利用他们的景观。以动植物驯化为标志的新石器时代革命是人类史前史的主要转折点之一。它为复杂的社会和社会等级的出现奠定了基础。考古学家已经意识到，人们必须深入研究新石器时代革命之前的时期，以深入了解其原因，这就是伯杰先生研究的目标。这个项目将产生许多考古学家感兴趣的资料，并有助于培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

Straus Under the direction of Dr. Lawrence Straus, Mr. Thomas Berger will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will study a large series of materials excavated from archaeological sites in Israel, Jordan and Syria. All date to the Natufian period which immediately precedes the emergence of settled agricultural societies in the Near East. In addition to architecture, site ecology and chronological placement, he will focus on the stone tools and chipping waste which was recovered in abundance at all localities. He will attempt to locate the sources of the stone raw material and to reconstruct the processes used to manufacture finished tools. He will also examine how these changed through time. On this basis he will gain insight into the social and economic organization of the Natufians and determine how the moved over and utilized their landscape. The Neolithic Revolution, marked by the domestication of plants and animals, constitutes one of the major turning points in human prehistory. It set the base for complex societies and the emergence of social hierarchies. Archaeologists have come to realize that one must intensively examine the period which immediate precedes the Neolithic Revolution to gain insight into its cause and this is the goal of Mr. Berger's research. The project will produce data of interest to many archaeologists and assist in the training of a promising young scientist.