U.S.-Argentina Cooperative Science Program: Taphonomy, Technology and Paleoecology on the Eastern Pampas of Argentina

这项美国-阿根廷合作科学奖将支持德克萨斯理工大学的Eileen Johnson和阿根廷拉普拉塔国立大学的Gustavo Politis的合作。该项目旨在探索早期潘潘遗址的地学、技术和古生态学，以评估是否有证据表明早期人类的杀戮地点出现在南美洲。近20年来，在潘帕斯发现了晚更新世和全新世早期的早期人类遗址。这些遗址对于了解阿根廷和南美洲的早期人类至关重要。该项目将进行骨骼研究，旨在描绘这些遗址的形成和干扰过程、居住在这些早期遗址的狩猎采集者的生存基础和社会结构、骨骼作为资源的使用、以及这些早期职业的环境和气候背景。研究人员将分析来自阿根廷四个遗址的骨骼材料，这将为人类活动、地形、空间和时间的变化范围提供一个广泛的视角。阿根廷方面将提供进入研究地点、当地考古学专业知识和实验室设施的机会。美方将为几名阿根廷学生提供美国草原模型和培训方面的专业知识，其中一名学生将在约翰逊的实验室学习半年。

This US-Argentina Cooperative Science award will support the collaboration of Eileen Johnson of Texas Tech University and Gustavo Politis of the National University of La Plata, Argentina. The project aims to explore the taphonomy, technology, and paleoecology of early Pampean sites, in an assessment of whether there is evidence that Early Man kill- sites occur in South America. In the last 20 years, late Pleistocene and early Holocene Early Man sites have been discovered on the Pampas. These sites are critical to understanding the early peopling of Argentina and South America. This project will conduct bone studies aimed at delineating formation and disturbance processes at the sites, the subsistence base and social structure of the hunter-gatherers occupying these early sites, the use of bone as a resource, and the environmental and climatic setting of these early occupations. The researchers will analyze bone material from four sites in Argentina, which will provide a broad view of the range of variation in activities, topographic settings, space, and time. The Argentine side will contribute access to the research sites, expertise in local archaeology, and laboratory facilities. The US side will contribute its expertise in US grasslands models and training for several Argentine students, including one who will spend a half-year in Johnson's lab.