RAPID: Assessment of a Frozen Archaeology Site

RAPID：冰冻考古遗址的评估

• 批准号: 1642013
• 负责人: Susan Kaplan
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: Bowdoin College
• 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: 2016-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1642013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Assessment; Frozen; Archaeology; Site

This is a small RAPID award for PI Susan Kaplan to take advantage of a Parks Canada vessel and polar bear monitors free of charge for two weeks fieldwork in northern Labrador, Canada. This project will be a stability assessment of a Middle Dorset (800 CE to 1,000 CE; CE meaning Common Era or the equivalent of 1,216 years ago to 1,016 years ago) archaeological site (Avayalik-1) 25 miles south of the tip of Labrador.Worldwide archaeological heritage is under threat from environmental change; in the Arctic this is manifested as sea level rise and the accompanying storm surges eating way at coastal sites. As in other places in the Arctic, Avayalik-1 permafrost is melting causing changes in hydrology and the deterioration of fragile organic artifacts and faunal remains. This investigation will assess the vulnerability of archaeological sites in permafrost, which will contribute to discussions on how to assess, monitor, and preserve such sites. This information is of great interest to the scientific community, culture resource managers but also to the indigenous residents who are in many cases the decedents of the original occupants.Avayalik-1 is a scientifically unique site of Middle Dorset (pre Thule culture, the ancestors of modern Inuit people). Avayalik-1, last investigated in 1978, yielded organic artifacts and faunal remains unsurpassed in quantity and preservation by any other Labrador Middle Dorset sites due to the fact the ground was permanently frozen. However, with the current state of the Arctic and the rapidly thawing permafrost, many Arctic heritage sites thought for decades to be not endangered are now under threat. Avayalik-1 is such a site. This important project will assist archaeologists and culture heritage managers in determining whether the Avayalik-1 site is endangered, which would signal a potential loss of a critical Paleo-Inuit environmental and cultural record. In addition, new archaeometric and data techniques will be applied to the soil samples taken from the site, techniques not available in 1978 when the site was last studied. This data will help in assessing the full potential of the site for contributing to our understanding of how people have adapted to life in challenging environment sand how the ecology of the maritime North Atlantic has changed over time.

这是一个小的快速奖PI苏珊卡普兰利用加拿大公园船只和北极熊监测免费两个星期的实地考察在北方拉布拉多，加拿大。 该项目将是一个中多塞特郡的稳定性评估（公元800年至公元1，000年;公元意味着共同时代或相当于1，216年前至1，016年前）考古遗址（Avayalik-1）拉布拉多半岛南端25英里处。世界考古遗产正受到环境变化的威胁;在北极，这表现为海平面上升和伴随的风暴潮侵蚀沿海地区。与北极其他地方一样，Avayalik-1永久冻土正在融化，造成水文变化，脆弱的有机文物和动物遗骸退化。这项调查将评估永久冻土中考古遗址的脆弱性，这将有助于讨论如何评估，监测和保护这些遗址。这一信息不仅对科学界、文化资源管理者非常重要，而且对土著居民也非常重要，在许多情况下，土著居民是原居住者的后代。Avayalik-1是中多塞特郡（前图勒文化，现代因纽特人的祖先）科学上独特的遗址。 Avayalik-1，最后一次调查是在1978年，由于地面永久冻结，在数量和保存方面，任何其他拉布拉多中多塞特遗址都无法超越有机文物和动物遗迹。 然而，随着北极的现状和永久冻土的迅速融化，许多几十年来被认为不会濒危的北极遗产现在正受到威胁。 Avayalik-1就是这样一个网站。这一重要项目将协助考古学家和文化遗产管理人员确定Avayalik-1遗址是否濒临灭绝，这将标志着重要的古因纽特人环境和文化记录的潜在损失。此外，新的考古和数据技术将应用于从该遗址采集的土壤样本，这些技术在1978年最后一次研究该遗址时还没有。这些数据将有助于评估该网站的全部潜力，以帮助我们了解人们如何适应具有挑战性的环境中的生活，以及北大西洋海洋生态如何随着时间的推移而变化。