Dendroarchaeology of the Range Creek Fremont

弗里蒙特山脉溪树考古学

• 批准号: 0523995
• 负责人: Ronald Towner
• 金额: $ 19.57万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0523995&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dendroarchaeology; Range; Creek; Fremont

With support from the National Science Foundation, Drs. Ronald Towner, Renee Barlow, and Matthew Salzer will conduct two seasons of tree-ring research on the largest set of pristine Fremont archaeological sites yet identified. As one part of a larger collaborative effort involving students from four universities and volunteers from two interest groups, the project will significantly enhance our scientific understanding of the Fremont culture of northeastern Utah (AD 800-1300) including its florescence as an agricultural society and demise prior to Euroamerican contact. The team will also examine variations in rainfall patterns in the area for the past 800-1000 years and relate such changes to changing Fremont, Ute, and historic ranching land use patterns. The goals of the project are to collect and date tree-ring samples from as many as 50 previously unknown Fremont structures, develop multi-century long tree-ring chronologies, reconstruct precipitation patterns of northeastern Utah for the past thousand years, and create models of human/environment interaction in semi-arid environments that may have global applications.As part of this effort, the investigators will train undergraduate and graduate students, and volunteers, in the proper collection of archaeological and live-tree samples so that they will be able to continue the research after the end of the project. Both graduate and undergraduate students will use the project data as part of their research projects.This project is a unique and exciting opportunity to develop collaborations between different universities and interest groups while researching pristine Fremont archaeological sites, climate variability for the past 1000 years, and the myriad ways people adapted to their semi-arid environment in good times and in bad times. The project will provide the basis for major revisions in the scientific understanding of the Fremont and to understanding human/environment interactions.

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下。罗纳德·Towner， Renee Barlow和Matthew Salzer将在弗里蒙特最大的原始考古遗址进行两季的树木年轮研究。作为四所大学的学生和两个兴趣团体的志愿者共同努力的一部分，该项目将大大提高我们对犹他州东北部弗里蒙特文化（公元800-1300年）的科学理解，包括它作为农业社会的鼎盛时期和在欧美接触之前的消亡。该小组还将研究过去800-1000年间该地区降雨模式的变化，并将这些变化与弗里蒙特、尤特和历史上牧场土地使用模式的变化联系起来。该项目的目标是收集多达50个以前未知的弗里蒙特结构的树木年轮样本并确定其日期，开发多世纪长的树木年轮年表，重建过去一千年来犹他州东北部的降水模式，并创建可能具有全球应用的半干旱环境中人类/环境相互作用的模型。作为这项工作的一部分，调查人员将对本科生、研究生和志愿者进行培训，教他们如何正确收集考古和活树样本，以便他们能够在项目结束后继续研究。研究生和本科生都将使用项目数据作为他们研究项目的一部分。这个项目是一个独特而令人兴奋的机会，在研究弗里蒙特原始考古遗址的同时，发展不同大学和利益团体之间的合作，过去1000年的气候变化，以及人们在繁荣时期和萧条时期适应半干旱环境的无数方式。该项目将为重大修订对弗里蒙特的科学认识和了解人/环境的相互作用提供基础。