Collaborative Research: Long-Term Human-Environmental Interaction In a Lowland Tropic Setting

合作研究：低地热带环境中的长期人类与环境相互作用

基本信息

批准号：
1632061
负责人：
Keith Prufer
金额：
$ 15.02万
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：
2016-08-01 至 2020-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632061&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Long Term Human

项目摘要

The aim of this interdisciplinary study, conducted by researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Pennsylvania State University (PSU), is to study human-climate-environmental dynamics among the earliest inhabitants of the American tropics. The work is designed to investigate the hypothesis that major behavioral changes in subsistence economies and technology were partially mediated by demographic transitions, climate variability, and anthropogenic environmental change on multiple timescales. The study of human adaptive capacity in the face of rapid environmental change has become more urgent given predictions of future warming and rapid population growth globally. This study is centrally relevant to this societal challenge. It will promote teaching, training, and learning, providing opportunities for collecting original data for graduate and undergraduate student projects at the University of New Mexico, Pennsylvania State University, and other institutions. The team will conduct a range of archaeological, bioarchaeological, and geochemical analyses on artifacts, skeletal materials (human and non-human), and plant remains from two rockshelter sites in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize with demonstrated occupations ranging between 13,000 and 3,500 years ago. Researchers will also develop a parallel paleoclimate record from nearby cave deposits with incremental geochemical analyses of stalagmites known to span this interval. During this time, humans successfully adapted to tropical habitats, responded to important changes in climate and ecosystem organization, coalesced into the first sedentary communities, and developed agriculture. Precision accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating of animal and human bone along with stable isotope measurements will be conducted at the PSU Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility and UNM Center for Stable isotopes. At PSU, variation in internal bone structure in the lower and upper limbs will be measured using 3D microCT scans to provide insights into human mobility and adaptation to changing lifeways through time. At UNM, and in collaboration with climate science collaborators, the team will develop a high-resolution paleoclimate record from cave stalagmites in the region that will be anchored precisely in time with uranium series dates. The climate backdrop will be used to interpret both cultural and biological change.

这项跨学科研究的目的是由新墨西哥大学（UNM）和宾夕法尼亚州立大学（PSU）进行的研究人员进行的，是研究美国热带地区最早的居民中的人类气候 - 环境动态。这项工作旨在调查以下假设：生存经济和技术的重大行为变化部分是由人口过渡，气候变化和多个时间尺度的人为环境变化介导的。鉴于全球未来变暖和人口迅速增长的预测，面对迅速环境变化的人类适应能力的研究变得更加紧迫。这项研究与这一社会挑战中心相关。它将促进教学，培训和学习，为新墨西哥大学，宾夕法尼亚州立大学和其他机构收集原始数据的原始数据提供机会。该小组将对伪影，骨骼材料（人类和非人类）进行一系列考古，生物考古学和地球化学分析，并从南伯利兹玛雅山脉的两个岩石地点进行了植物，其中有13,000至3,500年前的占领。研究人员还将从附近的洞穴沉积物中开发出平行的古气候记录，并对已知的跨越此间隔的石质岩石的地球化学分析进行增量。在此期间，人类成功地适应了热带栖息地，对气候和生态系统组织的重要变化做出了反应，融合到第一个久坐的社区并发展了农业。精度加速器的质谱质谱法放射性碳和人骨的放射性碳日期以及稳定的同位素测量将在PSU加速器质谱设施和稳定同位素的UNM中心进行。在PSU时，将使用3D MicroCT扫描来测量下肢和上肢内部骨结构的变化，以提供对人类流动性的见解，并适应随着时间的流逝而改变生命。在UNM，并与气候科学合作者合作，该团队将从该地区的Cave Stalagmites开发高分辨率的古气候记录，该记录将与铀系列日期及时及时固定。气候背景将用于解释文化和生物学变化。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（8）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

TERMINAL PLEISTOCENE THROUGH MIDDLE HOLOCENE OCCUPATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN MESOAMERICA: LINKING ECOLOGY AND CULTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF NEOTROPICAL FORAGERS AND EARLY FARMERS

DOI：
10.1017/s0956536121000195
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
Ancient Mesoamerica
影响因子：
0.7
作者：
Keith M. Prufer;Mark Robinson;D. Kennett
通讯作者：
Keith M. Prufer;Mark Robinson;D. Kennett

Recent research in the Bladen nature reserve: the preceramic occupations of Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul rockshelters

布拉登自然保护区的最新研究：Mayahak Cab Pek 和 Saki Tzul 岩石避难所的陶瓷时代之前的居住

DOI：
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
Research reports in Belizean archaeology
影响因子：
0
作者：
Prufer, Keith M.
通讯作者：
Prufer, Keith M.

Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

将北美洲、中美洲和南美洲晚期古印第安人石器技术与人口联系起来

DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0219812
发表时间：
2019
期刊：
PLOS ONE
影响因子：
3.7
作者：
Prufer, Keith M.;Alsgaard, Asia V.;Robinson, Mark;Meredith, Clayton R.;Culleton, Brendan J.;Dennehy, Timothy;Magee, Shelby;Huckell, Bruce B.;Stemp, W. James;Awe, Jaime J.
通讯作者：
Awe, Jaime J.

Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America