AWARE U.S.-China Cooperative Research on Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Tibetan Plateau

0214870 Brantingham这是圣达菲研究所的Jeffery Brantingham博士与中国新宁青海盐湖研究所的马海洲教授共同提交的一个为期36个月的AWARE项目，旨在研究青藏高原更新世的狩猎-采集者，并为六名“杰出”的美国本科生提供REU培训机会。这是理解晚更新世人类在青藏高原地区的殖民和适应的一个极好的建议。这项研究很好地结合了考古学、古环境和地质年代学的研究策略，回答了在行为现代人进化研究中具有广泛重要性的问题。该项目为美国本科生提供了在中国西部接受考古学培训和学习进行田野研究的绝佳机会。它还开发了可纳入区域和全球气候变异性和变化模型的古气候替代记录。美国国家科学基金会和中国科学院共同支持这一项目。

0214870BrantinghamThis is a 36-month AWARE project submitted by Dr. Jeffery Brantingham, Santa Fe Institute with Professor MA Haizhou, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Xinning, China, to study the Pleistocene hunter-gatherers of the Tibetan Plateau, and to provide an REU training opportunity for six "exceptional" U.S. undergraduate students. This is an excellent proposal to understand late Pleistocene human colonization and adaptation to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region. This study nicely integrates archeological, paleo-environmental, and geochronological research strategies to answer questions of broad importance in the study of evolution of behaviorally modern humans. This project provides excellent opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to be trained in archeology and to learn to carry out field research in the western part of China. It also develops paleoclimatic proxy records that can be integrated into regional and global models of climate variability and change. The NSF and the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly support this project.