US-France Joint Workshop: From Spatial Constraint to Socio-Economic Organization: The Settlement and Technology of Magdalenian Hunters at Verberie, Marcoux, France, February 2004

这个为期一年的奖项将支持美国参加一个美法联合研讨会，研究在法国韦尔贝里和其他类似的旧石器时代遗址的狩猎-采集者营地的行为和社会组织。该研讨会由纽约州立大学布法罗分校的Ezra Zubrow和巴黎第十大学的Francoise Audouze共同组织，将于2004年2月在法国马尔库举行。Verberie是马格达莱尼晚期的露天遗址，位于巴黎北部的瓦兹河谷底部。该遗址在12900年至12400年前被占领。2002年启动的一个GIS研究项目利用新技术来澄清“家庭生活模式”。Verberie和其他类似的遗址代表了旧石器时代晚期行为和社会组织的最佳数据。研讨会将讨论：(1)从考古数据解释旧石器时代行为和社会组织的理论问题；(2)基于活动空间分布的年龄、性别和亲属关系的社会划分；(3)欧洲旧石器时代晚期Verberie的更大社会背景。将开发一个网站和一个小型博物馆展示讲习班的成果。该研讨会将促进对欧洲旧石器时代晚期人们如何组织社区和家庭模式的理解。研讨会还为研究生提供了一个机会，在他们的职业生涯早期展示他们的研究和发展国际联系。该项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）联合资助。NSF将支持美国参与者前往法国的旅行，CNRS将支持法国调查人员的参与。

0338401ZubrowThis one-year award will support U.S. participation in a U.S.-France joint workshop on the behavioral and social organization of hunter-gatherer camps at Verberie, France and other similar Paleolithic sites. The workshop, co-organized by Ezra Zubrow of the State University of New York in Buffalo and Francoise Audouze of the Universite de Paris X, will take place in Marcoux, France, February 2004. Verberie is a late Magdalenian open-air site located at the bottom of the Oise river valley, just north of Paris. The site was occupied between 12,900 and 12,400 years ago. A GIS research program, initiated in 2002, has utilized new techniques to clarify the "patterns of domesticity." Verberie and other similar sites represent the best data available on Upper Paleolithic behavioral and social organization. The workshop will address: (1) theoretical issues regarding the interpretation of Paleolithic behavior and social organization from archaeological data; (2) social divisions relating to age, gender and kinship based on the spatial distribution of activities and (3) the larger social context of the Verberie in the European Upper Paleolithic. A web site and a small museum display describing the results of the workshop will be developed.The workshop will advance understanding of how people organized their communities and domestic patterns in the Upper Paleolithic of Europe. The workshop also provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their research and develop international connections early in their careers.This project is jointly supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS). NSF will support the travel of U.S. participants to France and the CNRS will support the participation of the French investigators.