U.S.-Ethiopia Dissertation Enhancement: Investigation of Faunal Remains from Two Middle Stone Age Sites of Ethiopia: Garba III (Melka Konture) and Porc-epic

美国-埃塞俄比亚论文增强：对埃塞俄比亚两个中石器时代遗址的动物遗迹的调查：加尔巴 III（梅尔卡孔图尔）和 Porc-epic

• 批准号: 9731228
• 负责人: Curtis Marean
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-15 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9731228&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Ethiopia; Dissertation; Enhancement; Investigation

9731228 Marean & Assefa This dissertation enhancement grants supports a graduate student, Mr. Zelalem Assefa, working under the guidance of Dr. Curtis Marean, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, to do field research in Ethiopia. East Africa is a region that contains significant information about the evolutionary history of the origin of modern humans. Biological and cultural evidence has shown that the Middle Stone Age (MSA) or Middle Paleolithic was an important period in the formative phase of modern behavior of early modern peoples. But examination of the subsistence models used by early modern humans in these periods has provided contradictory explanations about their resource exploitation behaviors. Mr. Assefa hypothesizes that the early appearance of the MSA in Africa is related to adaptive adjustments early modern humans made during the arid and cold phases of the Late Middle and Upper Pleistocene, and that they developed their seasonal exploitation of resources (vegetation and prey animals) into a subsistence strategy during the late MSA in East Africa. The role of hunting may have been one of the factors responsible for the observed technological shift in the MSA, and if so Mr. Assefa also hypothesizes that it will predict major changes in the taphonomic features of faunal remains between late Acheulean and early MSA assemblages. The results of this project will determine if the trajectory for behavioral evolution was the same in both Africa and Europe. This project will test subsistence models that are developed from analyses of faunal specimens from different parts of the Old World and Ethiopia with the MSA record, for the purpose of identifying and analyzing any contradictions among the models. The methodological approaches of GIS-based ecological analysis and taphonomic investigation will be used to collect data from fauna and ecological specimens from the Garba III and Porc-epic sites. Staff members at The National Museum of Ethiopia will collaborate with Mr. Assefa on this project. These results will provide important new information on the behavioral history of the early modern humans in East Africa. The new set of data will also provide a valuable reference resource for other archeological projects in East Africa. Additionally, the grant will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong, independent research career. The Division of International Programs and the Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Research are jointly providing funding for this project.

小行星9731228 该论文增强赠款支持研究生Zelalem Assefa先生在纽约州立大学斯托尼布鲁克分校人类学副教授Curtis Marean博士的指导下在埃塞俄比亚进行实地研究。 东非是一个包含有关现代人类起源进化历史的重要信息的地区。 生物和文化证据表明，中石器时代（MSA）或旧石器时代中期是早期现代人现代行为形成阶段的重要时期。 但是，对早期现代人在这些时期使用的生存模式的研究，对他们的资源开发行为提供了相互矛盾的解释。 Assefa先生假设，MSA在非洲的早期出现与早期现代人类在中更新世晚期和更新世晚期的干旱和寒冷阶段所做的适应性调整有关，并且他们在东非MSA晚期发展了对资源（植被和猎物动物）的季节性开发成为一种生存策略。 狩猎的作用可能是MSA中观察到的技术转变的因素之一，如果是这样，Assefa先生还假设它将预测阿舍利晚期和MSA早期组合之间动物群遗骸的埋藏特征的重大变化。 该项目的结果将确定非洲和欧洲的行为进化轨迹是否相同。该项目将测试生存模式，这些模式是根据对来自旧大陆和埃塞俄比亚不同地区的动物标本的分析以及MSA记录制定的，目的是查明和分析模式之间的任何矛盾。 基于地理信息系统的生态分析和埋藏学调查的方法将被用来收集来自加尔巴III和Porc-epic网站的动物和生态标本的数据。 埃塞俄比亚国家博物馆的工作人员将与Assefa先生合作开展这一项目。 这些结果将为东非早期现代人类的行为史提供重要的新信息。 新的数据集也将为东非的其他考古项目提供宝贵的参考资源。 此外，赠款将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的，独立的研究生涯。 国际方案司和社会、行为和经济研究司共同为该项目提供资金。