Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Pastoral Adaptation in Environmental Context

博士论文改进奖：环境背景下的田园适应

• 批准号: 2225740
• 负责人: Sarah Baitzel
• 金额: $ 2.72万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2225740&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Pastoral

The goal of this project is to investigate the adaptive strategies of pastoralists in response to long-term drought and sociopolitical changes in the past. Ethnographic accounts of pastoralists highlight culturally specific traditional knowledge systems that incorporate animal diet and mobility and environmental factors to shape decision-making in herding practices and resource management strategies. Archaeological data, ethnographic literature, and biogeochemical analyses of animal remains can provide insights into mitigation strategies that have potential applications for informing the ecological knowledge of contemporary herders. This project employs archaeological remains to compare camelid dietary and mobility patterns across different ecological and altitudinal settings to explain how ecological and social conditions shape human-animal-environmental interactions. This project aims to provide opportunities to train undergraduate students in stable isotope analysis, a tool that has become a staple in archaeological research. To examine the nature and variability of camelid herding practices, this project assesses the temporal and spatial variability of herding strategies including pasturing, foddering, and mobility. It will examine inter- and intra-community variability in camelid herding strategies through stable isotope analysis of camelid remains from two pastoral settlements. The two study sites span a period characterized by changes in climate and environment, increasing conflict and political fragmentation. Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope analyses of camelid remains from residential compounds at both sites will provide insights into the variability of herding practices at the local and regional scale. Using multi-isotopic analyses of camelid bone and teeth samples, will be used to answer the following directed questions involving diet and seasonal movement. Examining forms of camelid herding strategies and their variability presents insights into localized responses to changes in regional trade networks, migration, and conflict in the past.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.

该项目的目标是调查牧民应对长期干旱和过去社会政治变化的适应战略。牧民的人种学描述突出了具有文化特色的传统知识体系，这些体系将动物饮食和流动性以及环境因素纳入其中，以影响放牧做法和资源管理战略的决策。考古数据，民族志文献，动物遗骸的地球化学分析可以提供洞察缓解战略，有潜在的应用，为当代牧民的生态知识。该项目利用考古遗迹来比较骆驼科动物在不同生态和海拔环境下的饮食和流动模式，以解释生态和社会条件如何塑造人-动物-环境的相互作用。该项目旨在提供机会，培训大学生进行稳定同位素分析，这是一种已成为考古研究主要工具的工具。为了研究骆驼科动物放牧实践的性质和可变性，本项目评估了放牧策略的时间和空间变异性，包括放牧，放牧和流动性。它将通过对来自两个牧区定居点的骆驼遗骸进行稳定同位素分析，研究骆驼科动物放牧策略的社区间和社区内变异。这两个研究地点所处时期的特点是气候和环境发生变化，冲突增加，政治分裂。碳，氮，氧同位素分析骆驼仍然从住宅化合物在这两个网站将提供深入了解在当地和区域规模的放牧方式的变化。使用骆驼骨骼和牙齿样本的多同位素分析，将被用来回答以下涉及饮食和季节性运动的问题。考察骆驼科动物放牧策略的形式及其变异性，深入了解了过去对区域贸易网络、移民和冲突变化的本地化反应。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。