Investigation of Punuk/Birnirk/Thule Relationships--Preliminary Evaluation of North Alaskan Site Potentials

普努克/伯尼克/图勒关系的调查--北阿拉斯加遗址潜力的初步评估

• 批准号: 0341914
• 负责人: Anne Jensen
• 金额: $ 1.39万
• 依托单位: Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0341914&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigation; Punuk; Birnirk; Thule; Relationships

The Principal Investigator has submitted a SGER proposal to survey and evaluate archaeological sites on the North Slope of Alaska that are at risk of loss due to erosion and other geologic processes. The survey will concentrate on locating "intact cultural deposits, especially midden deposit and preferably frozen; cultural deposits associated with the development of prehistoric whaling; exposed strata and nearby potential sources of paleoenvironmental data." Due to the dramatic climactic changes and processes in the Arctic over the last decade, previously recorded information on the location and condition of archaeological resources have become obsolete. The information gathered in the proposed survey is crucial to identifying sites for future research, particularly on the Punuk, Birnirk, and Thule archaeological cultures of the Arctic. The interface between these three groups is an important and timely research topic due to the fact that Thule most likely represents a highly successful adaptation to new and changing environmental conditions, not unlike those facing contemporary indigenous people occupying on the North Slope.

首席研究员提交了一份SGER提案，以调查和评估阿拉斯加北坡的考古遗址，这些遗址因侵蚀和其他地质过程而面临损失的风险。 调查将集中于定位“完整的文化沉积物，特别是贝登存款，最好是冷冻的;与史前捕鲸发展有关的文化沉积物;暴露的地层和附近潜在的古环境数据来源。“由于过去十年北极地区的气候变化和过程，以前记录的关于考古资源位置和条件的信息已经过时。 在拟议的调查中收集的信息对于确定未来研究的地点至关重要，特别是关于北极的Punuk，Birnirk和Thule考古文化。 这三个群体之间的界面是一个重要而及时的研究课题，因为图勒很可能代表了一个非常成功的适应新的和不断变化的环境条件，而不是像那些面临的当代土著人民占领北坡。