International Research Fellowship Program: Using Applied Archaeological Macro and Microbotanical Research to Strengthen Peruvian Educational and Analytical Resources in Paleoethno

0701243Goldstein国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行九到二十四个月的研究。该项目的奖项为联合研究以及使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件提供了机会。该奖项将支持大卫·J·戈尔茨坦博士与秘鲁利马卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚大学路易斯·拉蒙·华曼博士合作为期二十四个月的研究奖学金。虽然该地区的大多数考古项目都采用了回收这些材料的方法，但很少有古民族植物学专家参与了大多数安第斯考古研究，因此大多数考古研究都是由古民族植物学专家参与的。材料未经分析。主持人和PI正在制定培训计划。该计划教授如何解释从考古遗址发现的植物遗骸。此外，PI 正在向主办方 UPCH 的微生物实验室学习如何将其宏观植物学专业知识与考古研究中的花粉和植硅体数据集相结合。与学生的实地研究一起，他们正在构建安第斯考古研究的国际和跨学科合作项目。最重要的是，他们正在建立一个课程，以进一步指导和培训人员，以便能够利用安第斯山脉中非凡的古代植物遗骸设计和开展自己的古民族植物学研究项目。这个为期两年的项目还旨在为安第斯山脉的古代植物遗骸研究提供培训和保留培训设施。古代植物遗骸，例如种子、果实和木材，是了解人类活动和整个人类职业生涯中生态反应的最佳证据。古民族植物学家是考古学家，他们利用植物遗骸来解释世界各地古代社会的农业系统、贸易关系、手工艺生产和食物偏好。南美洲的安第斯地区，尤其是秘鲁，是一些最古老的人类文明遗迹的所在地，这些遗迹与世界上保存最完好的植物遗迹有关。迄今为止，该地区还没有长期培训或既定课程来处理这些数据集。

0701243GoldsteinThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct nine to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will support a twenty-four-month research fellowship by Dr. David J. Goldstein to work with Dr. Luis Ramon Huaman at University Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru.While most archaeological projects in the region incorporate methodologies to recover these materials, few paleoethnobotanical specialists participate in the majority of Andean archaeological research, leaving the majority of these materials unanalyzed. The host and PI are establishing a training program. This program teaches how to interpret the plant remains recovered from archaeological sites. Additionally, the PI is learning from the host's microbotanical laboratory at UPCH how to combine his macrobotanical expertise with pollen and phytolith datasets in archaeological research. Together with the students' field research, they are constructing a program of international and interdisciplinary cooperation in Andean archeological research. Most importantly, they are establishing a curriculum for further instruction and training personnel to can design and carry out their own paleoethnobotanical research programs using the extraordinary ancient plant remains available in the Andes. This two year project is designed to also train and leave in place training facilities for ancient plant remains research in the Andes. Ancient plant remains, e.g., seeds, fruits, and wood, are the best evidence available for understanding human activities and ecological response across the human career. Paleoethnobotanists are archaeologists that use plant remains to interpret the agricultural systems, trade relationships, craft production, and food preferences of ancient societies around the world. The Andean region of South America, and Peru in particular, is home to some of the oldest remains of human civilization associated with the best-preserved plant remains in the world. To date no long-term training or established curriculum is available in the region to deal with these datasets.