Long Term Agrarian Responses to Environmental Stress

农业对环境压力的长期反应

• 批准号: 2114406
• 负责人: Patricia Fall
• 金额: $ 18.98万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114406&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Long; Term; Agrarian; Responses; Environmental

This project addresses basic social and environmental questions regarding the development of agrarian societies, and the social and physical landscapes they engendered and in which modern societies continue to live. Interdisciplinary studies featuring collaboration between archaeologists, geographers and earth scientists are particularly well-suited to apply deep time perspectives to elucidate long-term environmental changes, and assess how past societies responded to environmental stress, with attendant implications for modern societies. In particular, illumination of the possible trajectories and potential impacts of past environmental change holds major implications for understanding how and why urban civilizations rose and collapsed. Accordingly, this research illuminates the often-precarious relationships between agrarian societies, both past and modern, and their ecological settings. The project’s principal researchers include nine early career scholars, four of whom are women, including two of Hispanic descent. Project outreach to popular and university audiences in the US and beyond will foster a sense of cultural stewardship, an appreciation of deep human heritage, and an awareness of the varied responses to environmental change implemented by past agrarian societies. Project data will be accessioned into the University of California’s Digital Library (CDL) Merritt repository, where it will be managed by Open Context, and available for broad audiences to investigate the interactions of environmental change and agrarian responses. This project will contribute a new comparative approach for the study of ancient social flux while offering opportunities for student engagement in scientific research.This research will contribute to the growing discussion of environmental dynamics at the heart of past social change with timely pertinence for human responses to environmental change in the modern world. The researchers will elucidate multi-millenial trajectories of environmental change and varied paths of human response during a period of pronounced societal upheaval. Coordinated analyses of stable isotopes from archaeological crop seeds, and animal bones and teeth will be used to estimate ancient rainfall and temperatures through time. Changing profiles of cultivated crops and herded animals will portray shifting human responses to environmental change.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.

该项目探讨了与农业社会发展有关的基本社会和环境问题，以及农业社会产生的、现代社会继续生活的社会和自然景观。以考古学家、地理学家和地球科学家之间的合作为特色的跨学科研究特别适合应用深时间观点来阐明长期环境变化，并评估过去社会如何应对环境压力，以及随之而来的对现代社会的影响。特别是，照明的可能轨迹和潜在的影响，过去的环境变化具有重大意义，了解如何以及为什么城市文明的崛起和崩溃。因此，这项研究阐明了过去和现代农业社会与其生态环境之间往往不稳定的关系。该项目的主要研究人员包括九名早期职业学者，其中四名是女性，包括两名西班牙裔。项目推广到美国及其他地区的大众和大学观众，将培养文化管理意识，对深厚的人类遗产的欣赏，以及对过去农业社会对环境变化的各种反应的认识。项目数据将被纳入加州大学的数字图书馆（CDL）梅里特储存库，在那里它将由开放上下文管理，并提供给广大观众调查环境变化和农业反应的相互作用。该项目将为古代社会变迁的研究提供一种新的比较方法，同时为学生参与科学研究提供机会。该研究将有助于对过去社会变革核心的环境动态进行越来越多的讨论，并及时针对现代世界人类对环境变化的反应。研究人员将阐明环境变化的多千年轨迹和人类在明显的社会动荡时期的不同反应路径。对考古作物种子、动物骨骼和牙齿中的稳定同位素进行协调分析，将用于估计古代降雨量和温度。不断变化的种植作物和放牧动物的概况将描绘人类对环境变化的反应。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。