Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Social and Spatial Organization in the Southern Rocky Mountains

落基山脉南部更新世晚期狩猎采集社会和空间组织

• 批准号: 0450759
• 负责人: Nicole Waguespack
• 金额: $ 14.49万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-02-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450759&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Late; Pleistocene; Hunter; Gatherer; Social

Through National Science Foundation support, Drs. Nicole Waguespack, Todd Surovell, and Marcel Kornfeld will investigate late Pleistocene social organization and economic relationships among Folsom peoples as expressed through the spatial configuration of artifacts and site features. Two field seasons of archaeological excavation, subsurface reconnaissance, and spatial analysis of the Folsom deposits at Barger Gulch, Locality B (5GA195) will be completed. This research will focus on three primary issues: identifying site structure and organization through the distribution and content of spatial clustering among artifacts; detecting the presence and extent of economic relationships between site occupants; and documenting the spatial and technological organization of behaviors within and between different site areas in order to identify dimensions of technological organization. Detailed spatial investigation of the Barger Gulch site will provide insight into one, of very few, Folsom residential sites employing rigorous methods of excavation and analysis, and contribute to refining and developing spatial analytical techniques applicable to archaeological interpretation of past human behavior. The proposed research will also provide a valuable dataset from which future comparative studies of Paleoindian site/social organization can be made and contribute to larger issues of past and present hunter-gatherer socioeconomic diversity. The project is designed to explore questions of Folsom social organization, both complimenting and expanding upon current interpretations of Folsom lifeways. Spatial data has proved a valuable component for discerning forager social and economic relationships in both ethnographic and archaeological contexts. Detailed analysis and documentation of spatial trends at Barger Gulch provides a unique opportunity to examine the social context of prehistoric hunter-gatherer behavior. The Barger Gulch site, located in an intermontane basin of Middle Park, Colorado, contains deposits which document the diversity of behaviors that occurred at a 10,500 year old hunter-gatherer residential site. Previous archaeological investigations have established that a large area of the site remains intact, and that spatial integrity of cultural materials is preserved. Objectives included expansion of the excavation area to encompass a minimum of 110 m2, magnetometer survey, and spatial analysis of cultural materials and features. Excavation will focus on creating a large horizontal exposure to detect artifact clusters and features. The laboratory phase of the project will involve detailed study of chipped stone and fauna. Excavations and laboratory work at Barger Gulch will provide opportunities to train and provide employment to students in modern archaeological field methods, lithic analysis, and survey techniques. Members of various amateur archaeological and historical societies are invited to visit and participate in fieldwork in order to promote public awareness and understanding of archaeological research. All cultural material and data from the project will be accessible to additional researchers, and data from the project will be made available for thesis and dissertation research.

通过国家科学基金会的支持，妮可Waguespack，托德Surovell和马塞尔Kornfeld博士将调查更新世晚期的社会组织和经济关系之间的福尔松人民通过文物和网站功能的空间配置表示。将完成两个季节的考古发掘、地下勘测和对地点B（5GA 195）的巴格峡谷的福尔松矿床的空间分析。 本研究将集中在三个主要问题：确定网站的结构和组织，通过分布和内容的空间聚类之间的文物;检测的存在和程度的经济关系之间的网站占用者;和记录的空间和技术组织的行为内和不同的网站区域之间，以确定尺寸的技术组织。 详细的空间调查的巴杰峡谷网站将提供洞察之一，很少，福尔松住宅遗址采用严格的挖掘和分析方法，并有助于完善和发展空间分析技术适用于考古解释过去的人类行为。 拟议的研究还将提供一个有价值的数据集，从中可以进行未来的古印第安遗址/社会组织的比较研究，并有助于过去和现在的狩猎采集者社会经济多样性的更大问题。 该项目旨在探讨福尔松社会组织的问题，既赞扬和扩大后，福尔松生活方式的当前解释。 空间数据已被证明是一个有价值的组成部分，辨别觅食的社会和经济关系，在人种学和考古学的背景。详细的分析和记录的空间趋势在巴杰峡谷提供了一个独特的机会，研究史前狩猎采集行为的社会背景。 Barger Gulch遗址位于科罗拉多中部公园的山间盆地，包含的沉积物记录了10，500年前狩猎采集居住地发生的行为多样性。 之前的考古调查已经确定，该遗址的大部分区域仍然完好无损，并且文化材料的空间完整性得到了保留。 目标包括扩大挖掘面积，至少包括110平方米，磁力计调查，文化材料和特征的空间分析。挖掘将集中在创建一个大的水平曝光，以检测伪影集群和功能。 该项目的实验室阶段将涉及对碎石和动物群的详细研究。 巴杰峡谷的研究和实验室工作将为学生提供现代考古领域方法，岩性分析和调查技术的培训和就业机会。 各业余考古及历史学会的成员获邀参观及参与实地考察，以提高公众对考古研究的认识和了解。 该项目的所有文化材料和数据将提供给其他研究人员，该项目的数据将用于论文和学位论文研究。