Co-production of scientific knowledge and the building of local archeological capacity in Greenland.

该项目建立在以前NSF支持的工作的基础上，以了解自人类占领格陵兰以来该地区人类、景观、海景和气候之间的相互作用。由于土壤温度上升和海岸侵蚀加速，曾经保存完好的有机遗骸迅速消失，这项工作变得更加紧迫。这项工作将直接建设当地的格陵兰能力，以便格陵兰的主要合作伙伴格陵兰国家博物馆和档案馆(NKA)能够改善长期遗址管理，保持未来研究这些遗址和其他遗址的能力。这一威胁延伸到所有时期，并延伸到墓地和结构废墟。利用稳定的同位素、微量元素和古代DNA进行的新的实验室研究表明，考古遗址对于跨学科的社会环境合作研究具有“过去的分布式观测网络”的价值。这项工作有助于促进美国、格陵兰和丹麦在2004年建立的长期关系，以推进共同项目，并鼓励在包括科学、文化和环境在内的不同政策领域开展合作。格陵兰对开发有关其文化历史的知识的项目表现出了特别的兴趣。该项目将与格陵兰东道主和其他国际伙伴密切合作，抢救紧急濒危的考古遗址，收集广泛的古生态数据，并与渴望保护其遗产的现代社区合作，同时共同产生知识并直接参与全球变化科学。该项目将挖掘三个斯堪的纳维亚墓地，以找回人类遗骸，这些遗骸现在产生了饮食证据(即氮和碳稳定同位素、牙石分析)、冰岛移民的证据(例如锶同位素)和家庭关系(通过古代DNA)。该项目还将在三个仍保留有机保存的遗址上挖掘动物骨骼、昆虫、木材遗骸和文物，这些文物来自分层的北欧助产士。使用无人机和测绘GPS进行扩大的现场勘测，为湖泊和沼泽沉积物取芯以获取花粉、昆虫和大型植物遗骸，制作教育和推广产品的专业医疗文件，以及评估北欧田野和农场管理战略的扩大的地质考古计划，都是该项目的一部分。一个关键因素将是早期职业学生和专业人员的参与，以及与学校和当地居民的密切合作，重点放在阿卢伊佐克/利希特瑙的早期摩拉维亚传教和定居地点，这里是18-20世纪初跨文化接触和独特格陵兰文化发展的主要中心。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project builds upon prior NSF-supported work to understand the interactions of humans, landscape, seascape, and climate in the region since humans occupied Greenland. The work is given additional urgency as there is rapid loss of once well-preserved organic remains due to rising soil temperatures and accelerated coastal erosion. The work will directly build local Greenlandic capacity so that the key Greenlandic partner, Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) can improve long-term site management preserving the ability to study these and other sites in the future. The threat extends to all periods and extends to cemeteries and structural ruins. New laboratory studies making use of stable isotopes, trace elements, and ancient DNA demonstrate the value of archaeological sites as a "distributed observing network of the past" for collaborative interdisciplinary socio-environmental research. This work contributes to a long-standing relationship developed in 2004 between the US, Greenland, and Denmark to advance common projects and encourage cooperation across a diverse range of policy areas including science, culture, and the environment. Greenland has shown particular interest in projects that develop knowledge about its cultural past. The project will work closely with the Greenlandic hosts and other international partners to rescue urgently endangered archaeological sites, gather a wide range of paleoecological data, and collaborate with modern communities eager to save their heritage while co-producing knowledge and participating directly in global change science. The project will excavate three Norse cemeteries to recover human remains that now produce dietary evidence (i.e., nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes, dental calculus analysis), evidence of migration from Iceland (e.g., strontium isotopes) and family relationships (via ancient DNA). The project will also excavate animal bones, insects, wood remains, and artifacts from stratified Norse middens at three sites that still retain organic preservation. Expanded site survey using drones and mapping GPS, coring of lake and bog deposits for pollen, insects, and macrofloral remains, professional medial documentation to produce education and outreach products, and an expanded geo-archaeology program to assess Norse field and farm management strategies are all part of the project. A key element will be the engagement of early career students and professionals and the close collaboration with schools and local residents focused upon the early Moravian mission and settlement site of Alluitsoq/Lichtenau, which was a major center for cross-cultural contact and the development of a distinctive Greenlandic culture in the 18th- early 20th centuries.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.