Dissertation Research: An Examination of Lithic Technology During the Transition from Late Pleistocene to Modern Environments in the Upper Kolyma Region, Western Beringia

本论文项目将使用西伯利亚东北部上科雷马地区的数据，对距今4000年（距今11000 - 7000年）的石器技术进行广泛的研究。拟议的研究包括对三个地点（Uptar, Kheta, Buyunda）的材料进行分析，使用已发表的报告对组合变异性进行分析，并调查解释该地区人工制品变异性的环境模型的潜力。这项研究将对了解西伯利亚东北部的早期史前史有重要的贡献。对工具和制造碎片的区域分析，以及人们制造和使用工具的环境，是了解白令陆桥和新大陆最早定居者的先决条件。

ABSTRACT OPP-9612532 GRAYSON/KING This dissertation project will use data from the Upper Kolyma region, northeastern Siberia, to undertake a broad examination of stone tool technology over a 4000 year period (11,000 - 7,000 B.P.). The proposed research involves an analysis of material from three sites (Uptar, Kheta, Buyunda), an analysis of assemblage variability using published reports, and the investigation of the potentials of an environmental model for explaining artifact variability in this region. This study will make a significant contribution toward understanding the early prehistory of northeastern Siberia. A regional analysis of tools and manufacturing debris, and the environment in which people made and used tools, is prerequisite to an understanding of the earliest settlers of Beringia and the New World.