DDRIG: High Latitude Adaptations and Geoarchaeology at the Little John site, Yukon Territory, Canada

DDRIG：加拿大育空地区小约翰遗址的高纬度适应和地质考古学

• 批准号: 1603959
• 负责人: E. James Dixon
• 金额: $ 2.2万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1603959&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; Latitude; Adaptations; Geoarchaeology; Little

This award supports a dissertation project to conduct excavation, sampling and lithic, geoarchaeological, chronological, and paleoenvironmental analysis of materials from the Little John site in Yukon, Canada. The site is important as a stratified, Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene site with archaeological assemblages relating to the so-called Nenana/Chindadn (without microblades) and Denali (microblades) complexes. The site includes a locus with stratigraphic separation of paleosols and holds promise for evaluating the proposition that these two complexes are culturally distinct (presumably implying unrelated populations) and/or functionally distinct (i.e., relating to technological evolution or seasonal tool kit changes) as has been argued variously from other sites in central Alaska. The co-PI (Ph.D. student) will help supervise the excavation and lead the analyses to evaluate whether the assemblage types are stratigraphically and chronologically distinct and whether they correlate with paleoenvironmental change. These correlations presumably will yield insights to help clarify the long-standing debate about the significance of these assemblages in the archaeology of Eastern Beringia.

该奖项支持一个学位论文项目，该项目对加拿大育空的小约翰遗址的材料进行挖掘、采样和岩屑、地质考古、年代和古环境分析。该遗址是一个重要的分层、晚更新世-早全新世遗址，其考古组合与所谓的Nenana/Chindadn(没有微刀片)和Denali(微刀片)复合体有关。该遗址包括一个古土壤地层分离的地点，并有望评估这两个复合体在文化上不同(推测意味着不相关的种群)和/或功能上不同(即，与技术进化或季节性工具包变化有关)的命题，这一点与阿拉斯加中部的其他地点有不同的说法。这位博士生将帮助监督挖掘，并领导分析，以评估组合类型是否在地层和年代上是不同的，以及它们是否与古环境变化相关。这些相关性可能有助于澄清关于这些组合在东贝林吉亚考古学中的意义的长期争论。