RAPID: Assessment of a Frozen Archaeology Site

这是一个小小的快速奖励，让Pi Susan Kaplan利用加拿大公园的一艘船和北极熊监测器免费在加拿大拉布拉多北部进行为期两周的实地考察。该项目将对位于拉布拉多南端25英里的多塞特郡中部(公元800年至公元1000年；公元800年至公元1,016年前或相当于1216年前至1,016年前)的考古遗址(Avayalik-1)进行稳定性评估。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遗址。与北极其他地方一样，Avayalik-1永久冻土正在融化，导致水文变化，脆弱的有机文物和动物遗骸恶化。这项调查将评估永久冻土考古遗址的脆弱性，这将有助于讨论如何评估、监测和保护此类遗址。这些信息不仅引起了科学界、文化资源管理者的极大兴趣，而且也引起了土著居民的极大兴趣，他们在很多情况下都是原居住者的后代。Avayalik-1是中多塞特人(图勒之前的文化，现代因纽特人的祖先)在科学上独一无二的遗址。Avayalik-1最近一次调查是在1978年，由于地面永久冻结的事实，产生了有机文物和动物遗骸，在数量和保存方面都是其他任何拉布拉多中部多塞特郡遗址所无法比拟的。然而，随着北极的现状和永久冻土的迅速融化，许多几十年来一直被认为不会受到威胁的北极遗产地现在正受到威胁。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遗址是否濒危，这将标志着一项重要的古因纽特环境和文化记录的潜在损失。此外，新的考古测量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是不可用的。这些数据将有助于评估该地点的全部潜力，有助于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随着时间的推移发生了怎样的变化。

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.