Human Subsistence Practices in Response to Environmental Fluctuations in NW Alaska During the Last Millennium

这项拟议的研究旨在开发一种方法，以研究阿拉斯加西北部因努皮亚特文化因环境变化而产生的连续性和变化。这项研究将侧重于对科策布湾地区的生存和土地利用做法的人种学和考古学模式进行比较分析。气候分析将在很大程度上基于对该地区树木年轮的研究。长期目标是识别和解释考古历史，当时的条件与现在非常不同。这一方法有助于深入了解北极地区的生存做法和人类适应的多样性。

The proposed research is to develop a methodology for studying continuity and change in northwestern Alaskan Inupiat culture in response to fluctuations in environment. The study will focus on a comparative analysis of ethnographic and archaeological patterns of subsistence and land-use practices in the Kotzebue Sound region. Climatic analysis will be based in large part on tree-ring studies in the region. The long-range goal is to identify and interpret the archaeological past when conditions were very different from the present. This approach provides insight into the variability of subsistence practices and human adaptation in the Arctic.