EHSCAN-Exploring Early Holocene Saharan Cultural Adaptation and social Networks through socio-ecological inferential modelling.

EHSCAN-通过社会生态推理模型探索全新世早期撒哈拉文化适应和社交网络。

• 批准号: EP/Y028430/1
• 负责人: Enrico Crema
• 金额: $ 23.84万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY028430%2F1
• 关键词: EHSCAN; Exploring; Early; Holocene; Saharan

Early Holocene (EH) hunter-gatherer-fisher communities in North Africa and the Sahara from ca. 10.5 kya display very similar material cultural and socioeconomic patterning over a vast geographical and temporal range. Explained generally as the outcome of a rapid demic expansion, the actual dynamics of spread, the underlying cultural processes of transmission, contacts and networks which prompted and sustained the material cultural homogeneity in EH North Africa are still poorly understood, as are whether and why different groups maintained similar cultural traits after a putative initial dispersal process. EHSCAN aims to determine whether this long-term persistence was due to slow rates of cultural change or rather related to higher levels of inter-group connectivity, assuming the presence of an active large-scale network of interactions. To tackle these issues, it proposes to develop a statistical and spatial approach combining a generative inference framework and geostatistical analyses to establish and explore the processes that led to differences or similarities between North African archaeological cultures as well as the micro-scale processes responsible for cultural transmission within those. Via a multi-proxy approach by the systematic combination and analysis of independently acquired datasets and the application of approximate Bayesian computation it will compare and analyse material culture assemblages pertaining to the wider Sahara to observe spatial and temporal dynamics of the diffusion of specific cultural traits. Based on two main archaeological proxies, pottery, and radiocarbon dates, it will test the influence of different factors in those processes and define new models and paradigms for the EH settlement history in North Africa. It will broaden the conceptual and interpretative framework of Saharan prehistory and offer through its outputs new datasets and tools to African archaeological research.

早全新世（EH）狩猎采集渔民社区在北非和撒哈拉从约。10.5 Kya在广阔地理和时间范围内显示出非常相似的物质文化和社会经济模式。一般解释为一个快速的流行扩张的结果，传播的实际动态，潜在的文化传播过程，接触和网络，促使和维持物质文化的同质性在EH北非仍然知之甚少，是不同的群体是否和为什么保持类似的文化特征后，假定的初始扩散过程。EHSCAN旨在确定这种长期持续性是否是由于文化变化的缓慢速度，或者更确切地说，与更高水平的组间连接有关，假设存在一个活跃的大规模互动网络。为了解决这些问题，它建议开发一种统计和空间方法，结合生成推理框架和地质统计分析，以建立和探索导致北非考古文化之间差异或相似性的过程，以及负责这些文化传播的微观过程。它将通过多代理方法，对独立获得的数据集进行系统的组合和分析，并应用近似贝叶斯计算，比较和分析与大撒哈拉有关的物质文化组合，以观察特定文化特征传播的时空动态。基于两个主要的考古代理，陶器和放射性碳年代，它将测试在这些过程中的不同因素的影响，并定义新的模型和范式的EH解决在北非的历史。它将扩大撒哈拉史前史的概念和解释框架，并通过其产出为非洲考古研究提供新的数据集和工具。