Predicting and Protecting Lithic Landscapes

预测和保护石质景观

• 批准号: 2597538
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2597538
• 关键词: Predicting; Protecting; Lithic; Landscapes

Working in partnership with Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA), my research will characterise the significance and extent of Dartmoor's prehistoric subsurface archaeology, to inform future landscape management practices and to raise local and national awareness about this valuable heritage.Dartmoor's buried prehistoric archaeology faces significant pressures from the growing scale and frequency of landscape-scale conservation initiatives e.g., afforestation, peatland-restoration, natural flood management, as well as post-Brexit land-management schemes. From the first Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers, (~44,000 years ago), to the earliest agriculturalists, (~4500 years ago), stone tools, (lithics), are the dominant source of archaeological evidence - and these are currently excluded from protection by existing agri-environment schemes which focus on upstanding/visible archaeology. The transition from hunter-gatherer to farming lifeways has been identified by DNPA as a research priority because so little is known about this period on Dartmoor compared to later prehistoric archaeology. In addition to informing land management practices on Dartmoor, my thesis will also explore public engagement in prehistory and fieldwork will involve the highly trained and enthusiastic bank of DNPA volunteers, many of whom live and work on the moor.

与达特穆尔国家公园管理局（DNPA）合作，我的研究将揭示达特穆尔史前地下考古的重要性和范围，为未来的景观管理实践提供信息，并提高当地和国家对这一宝贵遗产的认识。达特穆尔的史前考古面临着越来越大的规模和频率的大规模保护计划的巨大压力，例如，植树造林、泥炭地恢复、自然洪水管理以及英国脱欧后的土地管理计划。从最早的智人狩猎采集者（约44，000年前）到最早的农学家（约4500年前），石器工具（石器）是考古学证据的主要来源-这些目前被现有的农业环境保护计划排除在外，这些计划专注于直立/可见的考古学。从狩猎采集到农业生活方式的转变已被DNPA确定为研究重点，因为与后来的史前考古学相比，对达特穆尔的这一时期知之甚少。除了通知土地管理实践达特摩尔，我的论文还将探讨公众参与史前和实地考察将涉及训练有素和热情的银行DNPA志愿者，其中许多人生活和工作的摩尔。