Hunter-gatherer behaviour in the landscape:reconstructing movement patterns in the British Late Upper Palaeolithic

将LA-ICP-MS技术应用于合适的文物、遗址和来源的样本量，将使英国马格达勒晚期原材料采购网络的首次明确重建成为可能。关于领土大小、年度资源调度和人类行为的地形关键的假设将首次在区域范围内得到检验。这将第一次使英国旧石器时代晚期考古坚定地超越时间文化秩序，并提供可直接与当代欧洲马格达勒人群体相比较的数据。几个研究问题为这种比较提供了背景，每个问题都可以在结果的参数范围内明确解决。石材采购网络在范围和方向上有多大的变化，这揭示了马格达勒尼亚晚期领土的规模是什么？这些与大陆上当代马格达勒尼亚晚期地区的对比如何？相似性是否表明欧洲大陆的适应直接延伸到了这个国家？或者，什么因素可能会解释重大差异？采购网络的方向性是否支持这样一种观点，即塞文河和特伦特河在马格达勒尼亚晚期形成了英国的主要通信轴心？从原材料流动的角度来看，主要网站由同一集团生产的想法是合理的吗？是否有任何来源仍未确定，可能被认为是英国组织在该国现代地理界限之外的活动？这些结果对景观学习过程有何影响；具体地说，如何以及以多高的速度建立采购和维持生计回合，以及这些与殖民运动的明显模式有何关系？该项目的总体意义在于，它将能够对与重大国际研究问题直接相关的晚更新世人类行为进行详细的地区性(这里是国家)规模的重建。

The application of the LA-ICP-MS technique to a suitable sample size of artefacts, sites and sources will allow the unambiguous reconstruction of British Late Magdalenian raw material procurement networks for the first time. Hypotheses about territorial size, annual scheduling of resources and topographical keys to human behaviour will be testable for the first time at the context of the regional scale. This will, for the first time, allow British Upper Palaeolithic archaeology to move firmly beyond chrono-cultural ordering and provide data directly comparable to that of contemporary European Magdalenian groups. Several research questions provide a context for such a comparison, each clearly addressable within the parameters of the results. How variable in range and direction were lithic procurement networks and what does this reveal about the size of Late Magdalenian territories? How do these compare with those of contemporary Late Magdalenian regions on the continent? Does similarity suggest the straightforward extension of continental adaptations onto the country? Alternatively, what factors might explain major differences? Does the directionality of procurement networks support the notion that the Severn and Trent rivers formed the main communication axis in Britain in the Late Magdalenian? Is the notion that major sites were produced by the same group justifiable in the light of raw material movements? Have any sources remained unidentified which may be taken to suggest the operation of British groups outside the modem geographical limits of the country? What are the implications of the results with regard to landscape learning processes; specifically, how and at what rate were procurement and subsistence rounds established and how did these relate to the apparent patterns of colonisation movement? The overall significance of the project is that it will allow detailed, regional (in this case national) scale reconstruction of Late Pleistocene human behaviour directly relevant to major international research issues.