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

在Jon M. Erlandson博士的指导下，todd Braje先生将考察圣米格尔岛过去一万年的考古学和历史生态学，重点是了解人类生存、定居和技术的发展。他的研究还将阐明人类对当地海洋生态系统影响的历史。圣米格尔岛位于南加州北部海峡群岛的最西端，已经被海洋民族占领了至少12000年。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、动物遗骸和人工制品。在这里，长而高分辨率的考古记录可以重建，并与丰富的历史、人类学、生物学和古生态学数据进行比较。该项目将考察圣米格尔岛南海岸的考古学和历史生态学，这个地区直到最近才被考古学家探索过。将在6个考古遗址进行仔细的挖掘、地面收集和测绘，这些考古遗址的历史在9500年到100年之间。分析由此产生的动物、植物和人工数据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利福尼亚海岸的类似序列进行比较。最终，该项目的目标是调查在试图恢复世界各地沿海（和其他）环境中的海洋和陆地生态系统时可以学习（和应用）的现代经验教训。该项目将受益于海峡群岛国家公园、海峡群岛国家海洋保护区、国家海洋渔业和各种积极参与岛屿生态系统（过去和现在）研究的学术机构的专门科学家小组，以及它们的恢复和长期保护。此外，这个项目将有助于在野外和实验室培养俄勒冈大学人类学学生的多样化群体。最终，这个项目的结果将是一套独特的数据，可以结合在一个跨学科的研究，将解决当今人类面临的最紧迫的问题之一-我们世界海洋的管理和恢复。

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.