Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Archaeology, Human Impacts, and Historical Ecology on San Miguel Island, California

在Jon M博士的监督下。厄兰森，托德布拉杰先生将考察过去1万年来圣米格尔岛的考古学和历史生态学，重点是了解人类生存、定居和技术随时间的发展。他的研究还将阐明人类对当地海洋生态系统影响的历史。圣米格尔是加州南部北方海峡群岛的最西端，至少12,000年来一直被海洋民族占据。岛上有近700个有记录的考古遗址，其中许多都有保存完好的地层，动物遗迹和手工艺品。在这里，可以重建长时间和高分辨率的考古记录，并将其与丰富的历史、人类学、生物学和古生态学数据进行比较。该项目将研究圣米格尔岛南海岸的考古学和历史生态学，这是一个直到最近才被考古学家探索的地区。将在6个距今9500年至100年的考古遗址进行仔细的挖掘、表面收集和测绘。对由此产生的动物群、植物群和人工数据的分析将有助于建立一个长期的生存、环境和技术变化序列，这些数据将与海峡群岛和加州海岸的类似序列进行比较。该项目的目标是调查可以学到的现代经验教训（并应用）在试图恢复海洋和陆地生态系统的沿海（和其他）环境在世界各地。该项目将使来自海峡群岛国家公园、海峡群岛国家海洋保护区、国家海洋渔业以及积极参与岛屿生态系统（过去和现在）研究及其恢复和长期保护的各种学术机构的一组专门科学家受益。此外，这个项目将帮助在实地和实验室培训一批多样化的俄勒冈州大学人类学学生。最终，该项目的结果将是一组独特的数据，可以结合在一项跨学科研究中，解决当今人类面临的最紧迫的问题之一-管理和恢复我们世界的海洋。

Under the supervision of Dr. Jon M. Erlandson, Mr.Todd Braje will examine the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island over the past 10,000 years, with a focus on understanding the development of human subsistence, settlement, and technology through time. His research will also elucidate the history of human impact on local marine ecosystems. The westernmost of southern California's Northern Channel Islands, San Miguel has been occupied by maritime peoples for at least 12,000 years. The island contains nearly 700 recorded archaeological sites, many of them with well-preserved stratigraphy, faunal remains, and artifacts. Here, long and high-resolution archaeological records can be reconstructed and compared to a wealth of historical, anthropological, biological, and paleoecological data.The project will examine the archaeology and historical ecology of the south coast of San Miguel Island, an area that was largely unexplored by archaeologists until recently. Careful excavations, surface collection, and mapping will be conducted at six archaeological sites dating between 9500 and 100 years old. Analysis of the resulting faunal, floral, and artifactual data will help build a long sequence of subsistence, environmental, and technological change through time, data that will be compared to similar sequences on the Channel Islands and the California Coast.Ultimately, the goal of the project is to investigate the modern lessons that can be learned (and applied) in trying to restore marine and terrestrial ecosystems in coastal (and other) environments around the world. The project will benefit a dedicated group of scientists from Channel Islands National Park, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, National Marine Fisheries, and various academic institutions actively involved in the study of island ecosystems (past and present), as well as their restoration and long-term protection. In addition, this project will help train a diverse group of University of Oregon anthropology students in the field and laboratory. Ultimately, the result of this project will be a unique set of data that can be combined in an interdisciplinary study that will address one of the most pressing problems facing humanity today - the management and restoration of our world's oceans.