Western Arctic Whale Hunting Societies: Whale Biometrics and Environments

西北极鲸鱼狩猎协会：鲸鱼生物识别和环境

• 批准号: 9634834
• 负责人: Allen McCartney
• 金额: $ 8.5万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 1998-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9634834&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Western; Arctic; Whale; Hunting; Societies

ABSTRACT OPP-9634834 McCartney/Dixon/Savelle This proposed research project will investigate baleen whale bones on precontact and contact Eskimo village sites between Barrow and Saint Lawrence Island in northern Alaska. Bone elements will be identified to species and size for purposes of reconstructing the relative abundance of major species, their ages and sizes at death, and the ways they were used by humans. The analysis of mortality profiles in zooarchaeological assemblages is important for understanding the relationships between human predators and prey species. Further, because the distribution of bowheads and gray whales is ice and season dependent, whale abundance or scarcity will be related to long-term climatic reconstructions. Comparisons will be made with previously analyzed bone assemblages from northern Canada.

摘要编号-9634834 McCartney/狄克逊/Savelle 这项拟议中的研究项目将调查须鲸骨骼的预接触和接触爱斯基摩村庄之间的巴罗和圣劳伦斯岛在北方阿拉斯加。骨骼元素将被确定为物种和大小，以重建主要物种的相对丰度，它们死亡时的年龄和大小，以及它们被人类使用的方式。分析动物考古学组合中的死亡率分布对于理解人类捕食者和猎物物种之间的关系非常重要。此外，由于露脊鲸和灰鲸的分布取决于冰和季节，鲸鱼的丰富或稀缺将与长期的气候重建有关。将与之前分析的来自加拿大北方的骨骼组合进行比较。