Prehistoric Settlements and Development of the Regional Economic Area (Project 4)

该项目是SINCOS II项目包中的第4个项目。其目的是收集资料，说明古代人类社会是否以及在多大程度上通过调整其经济制度、社会结构或通信网络，对气候演变和地质过程造成的海岸退化以及自然环境的其他变化作出了反应。2002 - 2005年中国地质科学研究院地质科学研究组的调查结果表明，达尔斯岩床东、西海岸变化具有明显的区域差异性。生活在这两个地区的人民在不同程度上受到这一进程的影响和威胁。他们的经济战略和文化传统的比较分析提供了一个很好的机会，研究和描述人类行为模式的海洋形状的景观。空间重点放在梅克伦堡湾，特别关注维斯马尔湾和吕根岛沿海沃茨，作为阿尔科纳盆地和波美拉尼亚湾的一部分。公元前6000至2000大卡（中石器时代晚期至新石器时代晚期）之间的时期特别令人感兴趣，因为在这一时期海平面的迅速上升引起了巨大的环境变化，使人们不得不不断适应不断变化的生态系统。由于SINCOS-Research小组（2002-2005年）的水下考古工作，已经在这两个地区找到并调查了几个保存完好的沿海遗址。在本申请项目的框架内，将重点对几个保存完好且具有特别科学重要性的遗址进行实地考察，并对这些遗址进行详细调查。对这些遗址的评估将产生必要的替代数据，以重建和模拟社会经济系统对这一时期不断变化的地理系统和气候的反应。此外，中石器时代晚期和新石器时代早期遗址的定位和调查是必要的，以澄清和概括预期的结果。为了我们的研究目的，在应用项目中应该对这些网站进行适当的详细检查。在公元前2000年至公元1900年期间，由于海洋、湖泊和河流越来越多地被用作交通和通信方式，而其对粮食资源开采的重要性在同一程度上下降，因此没有计划进行额外的实地考察。在梅克伦堡-沃尔波梅尔恩和石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因的国家遗产机构的考古遗产档案中记录了青铜器和铁器时代的几个沿海遗址以及中世纪早期和晚期的遗址。根据对这些地点的调查，关于海岸线和海平面的修改和变化的所有信息都将提供给本项目和建模伙伴项目。

This project forms project no. 4 within the project-bundle SINCOS II. It aims to gather information, whether and to which extent the ancient human societies have reacted to the coastal decline caused by climate evolution and geological processes as well as to other changes of their natural environment by adaptation their economic system, their social structures or their communication networks. The geo-scientific investigations of the SINCOS-Research group from 2002 to 2005 had clearly proved different regional developments of the coastal changes east and west of the Darss sill. People living in both regions have been affected and threatened by this process in a different extent. The comparative analysis of their economic strategies and their cultural traditions offers an excellent opportunity to study and characterize human behaviour models in maritime shaped landscapes. The spatial emphasis is put on the Mecklenburgian Bight with a special focus on the Wismar Bight and on the coastal waters of Rügen Island as part of the Arkona basin and the Pommeranian Bight. The period between 6000 and 2000 cal BC (Late Mesolithic until Late Neolithic period) is of particular interest, because the rapid rise of the sea level during that period has caused great environmental changes, so that people continuously had to adapt to the changing ecological system. Several well preserved coastal sites have already been located and surveyed in both areas due to the underwater archaeological work of the SINCOS-Research group (2002-2005). In the frame of the here applied project field-work on a couple of well preserved and exceptionally scientific important sites and the detailed investigation of the finds shall be focused on. The evaluation of these sites will produce the necessary proxy data to reconstruct and to model the reaction of the socio-economic system to the changing geo-system and climate in this period. Moreover the localization and survey of Late Mesolithic and early Neolithic sites is necessary to clarify and to generalize the expected results. Appropriate detailed examinations of those sites are supposed to be done in the applied project for the purpose of our study. For the period between 2000 cal BC and 1900 AD as the sea, lakes and rivers more and anymore were used as a traffic and communication ways while it's importance for the extraction of food recourses in the same extent decreased, no additional fieldwork is planned. Several coastal sites of the bronze and iron age as well as sites of the early and Late Middle Ages are recorded in the Archaeological heritage archives of the Heritage State Agencies of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig- Holstein. All information on the modifications and changes of the coastline and the sea level based on the investigation of these sites will be available for this project and the modelling partner-projects.