Collaborative Research: Inglefield Land Archaeology Project IPY initiative: Dynamic social systems at the entrance to Greenland

合作研究：英格尔菲尔德土地考古项目 IPY 倡议：格陵兰岛入口处的动态社会系统

• 批准号: 0732620
• 负责人: Genevieve LeMoine
• 金额: $ 21.03万
• 依托单位: Bowdoin College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0732620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Inglefield; Land; Archaeology

Co-Investigators Christyann Darwent (Department of Anthropology, University of California-Davis) and Genevieve LeMoine (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College) will undertake archaeological excavation at two Thule/Inughuit sites in the summers of 2008 and 2009. The goal is to investigate the prehistoric-historic transition in this region, and to gain an understanding of this period of key culture contact and environmental change. The prehistoric-historic transition here dates to the 19th century. Sporadic contact with Euro-Americans began in 1818 when John Ross first anchored off Cape York, and became increasingly frequent after 1850. At the same time, (ca. 1860) the Inughuit assimilated into their society a group of migrants from Baffin Island. Both of these processes had major and lasting impacts on Inughuit society, and because both of them involved introducing, or re-introducing, important technologies, they are amenable to archaeological investigation. Technological studies, using a variety of approaches, will be used to understand how the Inughuit adopted new tools and materials into their activities, and what impact such changes had on their lives. The nineteenth century also saw the end of the Little Ice Age, with increased warming accompanied by as-yet undocumented changes in the abundance and distribution of plants and animals. Studies of both economically important animals and the insect fauna of the sites will address questions of the timing and scope of these changes, as well as the Inughuit?s responses to them.Sites have been selected on the basis of surveys conducted by the team in 2004 and 2005. In 2008 the team will excavate late-prehistoric/early historic winter dwellings at Cape Grinnell, a site first identified by Elisha Kent Kane in the1850s as having recently abandoned houses. In 2009 the research team will focus its efforts on Qaqaitsut, a winter village, occupied from ca. AD 1200 to as recently as the 1980s. Houses and adjacent middens will be excavated. They will also map both of these multi-component sites in detail. At Cape Grinnell, a geomorphological study will help the team understand the development of beach ridges, which have been occupied for over 4000 years. The investigators will be addressing questions of basic culture history; culture contact, both between indigenous groups and between Euro-Americans and Inuit; adaptation to the changing polar environment; and mammalian biogeography. This project is part of NSF?s investment in International Polar Year research. The project is an international collaborative one with researchers from the United States, Canada, Denmark and Greenland (including members of the local Inughuit communities).

共同调查员Christyann Darwent（加州大学戴维斯分校人类学系）和Genevieve LeMoine（鲍登学院Peary-MacMillan北极博物馆）将于2008年和2009年夏天在两个图勒/因纽特遗址进行考古挖掘。目的是调查该地区的史前历史过渡，并了解这一时期的关键文化接触和环境变化。这里的史前历史过渡可以追溯到世纪。1818年，约翰·罗斯首次在约克角下锚，与欧洲裔美国人开始了零星的接触，1850年后变得越来越频繁。与此同时，（CA。1860年，因纽特人同化了一群来自巴芬岛的移民。这两个过程都对因纽特人社会产生了重大而持久的影响，因为它们都涉及引进或重新引进重要的技术，所以它们都适合考古调查。技术研究，使用各种方法，将被用来了解因纽特人如何采用新的工具和材料到他们的活动，以及这些变化对他们的生活产生了什么影响。19世纪也见证了小冰期的结束，伴随着气候变暖，动植物的丰度和分布发生了迄今为止没有记录的变化。对这些遗址的重要经济动物和昆虫区系的研究将解决这些变化的时间和范围问题，以及因纽特人？选址是根据该小组在2004年和2005年进行的调查选定的。2008年，该团队将在格林内尔角发掘史前晚期/早期的历史冬季住宅，19世纪50年代，伊莱沙肯特凯恩首次发现该遗址是最近废弃的房屋。2009年，研究小组将把工作重点放在Qaqaitsut，这是一个冬季村庄，从公元前1000年开始被占领。公元1200年到最近的1980年代。房屋和邻近的垃圾坑将被挖掘。他们还将详细绘制这两个多成分网站。在格林内尔角，一项地貌研究将帮助研究小组了解海滩山脊的发展，这些山脊已经被占据了4000多年。调查人员将解决基本文化历史的问题;土著群体之间以及欧美人和因纽特人之间的文化接触;适应不断变化的极地环境;和哺乳动物地理学。这个项目是NSF的一部分。中国对国际极地年研究的投资。 该项目是一个国际合作项目，来自美国、加拿大、丹麦和格陵兰的研究人员（包括当地因纽特人社区的成员）参加了该项目。