The Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Mesoamerican Corridor (Guatemala): Megafauna, Environmental Change and Human Settlement

中美洲走廊的更新世-全新世过渡（危地马拉）：巨型动物群、环境变化和人类住区

• 批准号: 396561339
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Stinnesbeck
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/396561339?language=en
• 关键词: Pleistocene; Holocene; transition; Mesoamerican; Corridor

Here we apply for funding of a geoarchaeological pilot study on Guatemala. Along with our cooperation partner Lorena Davila from the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala City, Guatemala we will evaluate the geoarchaeological and palaeontological potential of three late Pleistocene-early Holocene sites in the Polochic-Motagua and Huehuetenango regions of the country. Samples from these sites at La Estanzuela, Chivacabé and San Rafael, will be used to evaluate the quality and validity of fossils and sediments as representative geoarchives to perform high-end lab-based methodologies. Guatemala, located in the biogeographic corridor between North- and South America, is regarded to be an important region to solve questions on the last elements of the Pleistocene megafauna and, perhaps, the early human settlement of the Americas. The planned project may also be a future kick-off of an interdisciplinary Schwerpunkt encouraged by the DFG (Round-Table panel, 31.1.2017 in Bonn), which would include a wide range of natural sciences as well as archaeology, palaeontology and anthropology.

在这里，我们申请资助危地马拉的地质考古试点研究。我们将与危地马拉城卡洛斯大学的合作伙伴洛雷纳Davila沿着评估该国Polochic-Motagua和韦韦特南戈地区三个晚更新世-早全新世遗址的地质考古和古生物学潜力。来自La Estanzuela、Chivacabé和圣拉斐尔这些地点的样本将用于评估化石和沉积物的质量和有效性，作为代表性地质档案，以执行高端的实验室方法。危地马拉位于南北美洲之间的地理走廊，被认为是解决更新世巨型动物最后要素问题的重要地区，也许是美洲早期人类定居点。计划中的项目也可能是DFG（圆桌小组，2017年1月31日在波恩）鼓励的跨学科Schwerpunkt的未来启动，其中包括广泛的自然科学以及考古学，古生物学和人类学。