Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Middle Paleolithic Lithic Technology and Behavior in the Hrazdan River Gorge, Armenia.

博士论文改进资助：亚美尼亚赫拉兹丹河峡谷旧石器时代中期石器技术和行为。

• 批准号: 1234125
• 负责人: Daniel Adler
• 金额: $ 2.12万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2013-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1234125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Middle

Under the guidance of Dr. Daniel S. Adler, Beverly A. Schmidt will conduct a technological analysis of curated and recently excavated lithic assemblages from the cave sites of Lusakert I and Yerevan I, located 25km apart in the Hrazdan Gorge, Armenia, dating to between 60,000 and 40,000 BP. Both sites are located within relatively shallow, naturally-formed columnar basalt caves in close proximity to numerous high-quality obsidian sources. Lusakert I is the only cave site from this time period in Armenia with stratified deposits of well-preserved archaeological material recovered using modern methods, while Yerevan I has traditionally been used as a benchmark assemblage for southern Caucasus lithic industries. However, the few available publications for the two sites present conflicting interpretations regarding the nature of early human technological behavior, site occupation and duration, mobility, and land-use. Therefore, it is even more important to substantiate or reject prior interpretations with a thorough and detailed analysis. Ms. Schmidt's research provides the first opportunity to conduct a variety of technical and behavioral studies in the area that would be comparable to published studies from neighboring regions. Armenia presents a gap in our knowledge of lithic technologies and behaviors in the Caucasus region, which is situated between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, incorporating areas of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. The identification of technological and stylistic variants in a lithic assemblage can be interpreted as markers of cultural traditions and innovations. Due to the influence on lithic technologies by raw material quality and availability, foraging practices, mobility range, and cost-benefit decision-making, it is possible to infer human behavioral patterns in flake production, reduction, resource acquisition and exploitation, planning and curation, economic efficiency, regional networks, and material transportation patterns. The main goal of Ms. Schmidt's project is to expand the limited knowledge of early human behavior in the southern Caucasus and to test hypotheses related to technology, behavior, site occupation and duration, mobility range, and raw material economy, establishing a dataset for comparisons with already published sites. This research will also contribute to the exchange of scholarly information both within the Caucasus, and between adjacent regions, in the form of academic publications, conference presentations, and online availability of site graphics, regional information, maps, and site reports. The collaboration and academic relationships established through Ms. Schmidt's research will continue to promote archaeological field research and technological analysis in Armenia, specifically the ongoing cooperation between Yerevan State University, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography and the Armenian National History Museum in Yerevan, and the University of Connecticut in the US.

在丹尼尔博士的指导下。作者声明：A.施密特将对最近从卢萨克特I和埃里温I洞穴遗址中挖掘出来的石器组合进行技术分析，这两个洞穴遗址位于亚美尼亚赫拉兹丹峡谷，相距25公里，可追溯到60，000至40，000 BP之间。 这两个地点都位于相对较浅的自然形成的柱状玄武岩洞穴内，靠近许多高质量的黑曜石来源。Lusakert I是亚美尼亚这一时期唯一的洞穴遗址，使用现代方法恢复了保存完好的考古材料的分层沉积，而埃里温I传统上被用作南高加索石器工业的基准组合。然而，这两个网站的几个可用的出版物提出了相互矛盾的解释，早期人类技术行为的性质，网站的占用和持续时间，流动性和土地利用。因此，更重要的是要通过全面和详细的分析来证实或拒绝先前的解释。施密特女士的研究提供了第一个机会，在该地区进行各种技术和行为研究，将可比从邻近地区发表的研究。亚美尼亚在我们对高加索地区的石器技术和行为的了解方面存在差距，该地区位于黑海和里海之间，包括俄罗斯，格鲁吉亚，亚美尼亚，伊朗，阿塞拜疆和土耳其。在一个石器组合中，技术和风格变体的识别可以被解释为文化传统和创新的标志。由于对石器技术的影响，原材料的质量和可用性，觅食的做法，流动范围，成本效益决策，它是可能的，推断人类的行为模式，在薄片生产，减少，资源的获取和开发，规划和策展，经济效率，区域网络和材料运输模式。施密特女士项目的主要目标是扩大南高加索早期人类行为的有限知识，并测试与技术，行为，场地占用和持续时间，移动范围和原材料经济有关的假设，建立一个数据集与已经公布的网站进行比较。这项研究还将有助于学术信息的交流，无论是在高加索地区，并在相邻地区之间，在学术出版物，会议演示文稿的形式，以及网站图形，区域信息，地图和网站报告的在线可用性。通过施密特女士的研究建立的合作和学术关系将继续促进亚美尼亚的考古实地研究和技术分析，特别是埃里温州立大学、考古学和民族志研究所和埃里温的亚美尼亚国家历史博物馆与美国康涅狄格大学之间正在进行的合作。