Hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle Pleistocene in Schöningen

该项目以德国Schöningen遗址为例，致力于对间冰期环境中中更新世人类的生存策略进行详尽的分析。调查的重点是2005年底前挖掘的13-11号系列沉积物。中更新世遗址Schöningen 13-11及其各种沉积系列代表了全球范围内独一无二的档案，具有良好的有机遗迹保存，对其进行分析将首次使我们能够详细了解中更新世遗址的功能组织。该分析由五个紧密相连的模块组成，它们与沉积系列的有机遗迹及其沉积过程模式的研究有关（项目方面2：考古分析，项目方面3：生物层学）。这里获得的结果补充了Schöningen石器人工制品和木制人工制品形态学的研究，这些研究已经完成，但尚未发表。这些分析将通过其结果的三维空间投影（项目方面1：材料加工和改装，项目方面4：地理信息系统分析）和进一步的模块进行背景化，该模块首次尝试模拟旧石器时代的生存系统(项目方面5：关于Schöningen沉积系列13-11的工作直接整合到目前由Römisch- Germanisches中央博物馆Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit进行的关于更新世和全新世早期间冰期环境条件的人类适应机制的研究中。

The proposed project is dedicated to the exhaustive analysis of subsistence strategies of Middle Pleistocene hominins in interglacial environments using the example of the German site of Schöningen. The focal point of the investigation is provided by the material of Sedimentation series 13-11, excavated before the end of 2005.The Middle Pleistocene site Schöningen 13-11, together with its various Sedimentation series represents an archive unique on a global scale, with an excellent preservation of organic remains, the analysis of which will allow, for the first time, a detailed insight into the functional Organization of Middle Pleistocene sites.The analysis is composed of five closely interlinked modules, which are concerned with the study of the organic remains of the Sedimentation series and the mode of their depositional processes (Project Aspect 2: archaeozoological analyses, Project Aspect 3: Biostratonomy). Results obtained here complement investigations of the Schöningen lithic artefacts and of the morphology of wooden artefacts, which are completed although not yet published.These analyses will be contextualized by three-dimensional spatial projection of their results (Project Aspect 1: Material processing and Refitting, Project Aspect 4: GIS analyses) and by a further module, which for the first time attempts to model Palaeolithic subsistence Systems (Project Aspect 5: Modelling)Work on Schöningen Sedimentation series 13-11 is directly integrated into current research into hominin adaptive mechanisms to interglacial environmental conditions during the Pleistocene and early Holocene presently being carried out by the Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit of the Römisch- Germanisches Zentralmuseum.