Publication Preparation for Archaeological Materials

这笔赠款允许格雷森博士准备插图， 收录在美国博物馆出版的专著中 自然历史。本卷报告的分析结果， 来自三个深层层状岩石掩体的动物群材料， 在美国大盆地北方发掘的洞穴 Danger Cave，Last Supper Cave和Hanging Rock Shelter。所有这些 这些地点有相当大的脊椎动物群， 年，并来自地区的信息很少， 哺乳动物历史和史前人类之间的互动 和动物群落。 这本专著具有重要意义，原因有三。首先它 提供有关美国环境变化的信息， 以及不同种类的动物对它的反应。这 有助于解释小型哺乳动物的分布 看到今天。其次，这项研究揭示了史前 人们利用这种环境， 最后，格雷森博士和他的同事们努力测试了 并开发新的分析动物材料的方法。这些 技术应该是有用的大量reseachers。 这笔赠款很重要，因为它将允许全面出版 这个国家科学基金会支持的研究。只有在以下情况下，这些工作才能获得充分的价值： 它被广泛传播，美国博物馆出版物 会让这一切成为可能

This grant allows Dr. Grayson to prepare illustrations for inclusion in a monograph to be published by The American Museum of Natural History. This volume reports results of analysis of faunal materials from three deep stratified rockshelters and caves excavated in the northern half of the U.S. Great Basin: Danger Cave, Last Supper Cave and Hanging Rock Shelter. All these sites contain sizeable vertebrate faunas which span over 10,000 years and which come from areas for which little information on mammalian history and on interactions between prehistoric peoples and animal communities are available. The monograph is of significance for three reasons. First it provides information on the changing environments in the American West and how different species of animals responded to it. This helps to explain the distributions of small mammals which one sees today. Secondly, the research sheds light on how prehistoric peoples used this environment and obtained their subsistence from it. Finally, Dr. Grayson and his colleagues have worked to test and develop new methods for analyzing faunal materials. These techniques should be useful to a large number of reseachers. This grant is important because it will allow full publication of this NSF supported research. Such work only gains full value if it is widely disseminated and the American Museum publication will make this possible.