Exploring Subsistence Dynamics on the Bering Sea Coast: Ancient Human Settlement, Walrus Hunting, and Social Complexity

探索白令海岸的生存动态：古代人类聚居、海象狩猎和社会复杂性

• 批准号: 1022523
• 负责人: Erica Hill
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022523&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; Subsistence; Dynamics; Bering; Sea

PI Erica Hill will conduct a zooarchaeological analysis of vertebrate fauna recovered from St. Lawrence Island excavations in the 1960s. The proposed research is the first modern, comprehensive zooarchaeological study of fauna conducted on any St. Lawrence Island archaeological assemblage. The PI will also be testing a hypothesis about prehistoric hunting strategies and social organization based on the sexing of walrus remains. This research has the potential to generate data that could provide insights into the social organization of the prehistoric Eskimo, the development of complex societies along the Bering Sea coast, and better explain human adaptations to the arctic environment. There are no longer any intact archaeological sites on St. Lawrence Island, which means that museum materials are the sole source of information on an island adaptation that persisted for over two millennia. Data derived from this analysis will represent a contribution to our understanding of human occupation of the Arctic and may ultimately help explain the development of large, coastal aggregated sites focused on whaling.

PI埃里卡希尔将对20世纪60年代从圣劳伦斯岛发掘的脊椎动物群进行动物考古学分析。这项拟议的研究是第一次对圣劳伦斯岛考古组合进行的现代、全面的动物考古研究。PI还将测试一个关于史前狩猎策略和基于海象遗骸性别鉴定的社会组织的假设。这项研究有可能产生的数据，可以提供洞察史前爱斯基摩人的社会组织，复杂的社会发展沿着白令海海岸，并更好地解释人类适应北极环境。圣劳伦斯岛上已经没有任何完整的考古遗址，这意味着博物馆的材料是岛上持续了两千年的适应性的唯一信息来源。从这项分析中获得的数据将有助于我们了解人类对北极的占领，并最终有助于解释以捕鲸为重点的大型沿海聚集地点的发展。