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 Erica Hill 将对 20 世纪 60 年代圣劳伦斯岛发掘中发现的脊椎动物群进行动物考古学分析。拟议的研究是对圣劳伦斯岛考古群进行的第一项现代、全面的动物考古学研究。项目负责人还将根据海象遗骸的性别鉴定来测试有关史前狩猎策略和社会组织的假设。这项研究有可能产生数据，这些数据可以深入了解史前爱斯基摩人的社会组织、白令海沿岸复杂社会的发展，并更好地解释人类对北极环境的适应。圣劳伦斯岛上不再有任何完整的考古遗址，这意味着博物馆材料是有关持续了两千年的岛屿适应的唯一信息来源。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，并最终可能有助于解释以捕鲸为重点的大型沿海聚集地的发展。