The Publication of the First Phase of Archaeological and Environmental Research in Western Sahara

这份申请书是为了出版一本共同撰写的学术专著，以及国际和平协会出席两次会议，以便介绍东英吉利大学在西撒哈拉波利萨里奥控制区进行的八年考古和环境探索的结果和解释。西撒哈拉项目(WSP)的目的是记录人类占领和利用撒哈拉地区不断变化的性质，在整个史前时期，从晚更新世到晚全新世，撒哈拉地区一直保持着相对良好的灌溉状态。考古田野工作是在瓦迪蒂菲里提9平方公里的地区进行的，记录了公元前5世纪至1千年的460多座葬礼和仪式纪念碑。(全新世中期和晚期)和七个占领区，大部分可追溯到公元前九千年和八千年(全新世早期)。围绕Wadi Tifariti开展的工作提供了一个机会，可以将撒哈拉最西部的考古和环境记录与类似纬度地区(如尼日尔、利比亚和苏丹)的中部和东部地区的记录进行比较，并将其与西部沿海占领的轨迹以及撒哈拉北部边缘和萨赫勒地区的占领轨迹进行比较。对该地区的考古调查还辅之以对沉积物和凝灰岩进行环境采样的方案。该项目代表着第一阶段的出版，迅速出版对实施第二阶段至关重要，第二阶段的目标是成为该地区考古和环境研究的一个更大的系统方案。

This application is for the production of a co-authored scholarly monograph, and for attendance by the PI at two conferences in order to present results and interpretation of eight years of archaeological and environmental exploration undertaken by the University of East Anglia in the Polisario-controlled areas of Western Sahara. The aim of the Western Sahara Project (WSP) has been to document the changing nature of human occupation and utilisation of an area of the Sahara that remained comparatively well watered throughout prehistory, from the Late Pleistocene into the Late Holocene. Archaeological fieldwork was undertaken in a nine square kilometre region of the Wadi Tifiriti and has documented over 460 funerary and ritual monuments dating from the 5th to the 1st millennia b.p. (the end of the Middle and the Late Holocene) and seven occupation sites, mostly dating to the 9th and 8th millennia b.p.(the Early Holocene). The work around the Wadi Tifariti represents an opportunity to compare the archaeological and environmental records of the far west of the Sahara with records from central and eastern regions at similar latitudes (e.g. Niger, Libya, and Sudan), as well as with trajectories of coastal occupation to the west, and of occupation on the northern Saharan fringes and in the Sahel. Archaeological investigation of the region has been supplemented by a programme of environmental sampling of sediments and tufas. This Project represents the publication of Phase 1 and expeditious publication is crucial for implementing Phase 2, which aims to be a much larger systematic programme of archaeological and environmental study in the region.