Dissertation Research: Dating and Analysis of the Moorehead Tradition

安德森 在道格拉斯安德森博士的指导下，布赖恩罗宾逊先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。他将获得与缅因州沿海地区33个穆尔黑德埋葬传统遗址有关的材料的放射性碳年代。虽然这种传统的存在已经知道了很多年，它已被确定的网站范围从ca。8，500 - 3，700 B. P.，大多数个别事件的年代很差。罗宾逊先生发现，在许多这些网站的材料包括少量的木炭;因此，AMS技术将允许他们的年龄确定。 穆尔黑德传统以其精心制作的红色赭石人类墓葬而闻名，这些墓葬被分为明确定义的墓地。 考古学家把注意力集中在这一现象上，因为这种程度的精心制作在狩猎者和采集者中是罕见的，并表明了这一时期人们复杂的社会组织水平。罗宾逊先生认为，他可以利用墓地的地理分布及其相互关系和与重要自然资源的关系来重建这一传统的社会和生态方面，并确定这些方面如何随着时间的推移而变化。然而，为了进行这样的分析，有必要对各个地点进行时间控制，本研究将完成这一点。 这项工作之所以重要，有几个原因。它将增加我们对处于简单文化组织水平的人民如何适应其社会和自然环境的理解。它将提供许多考古学家感兴趣的数据，并将协助培训一名有前途的年轻科学家。

Anderson Under the direction of Dr. Douglas Anderson, Mr. Brian Robinson will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will obtain radiocarbon dates on materials associated with 33 Moorehead burial tradition sites from coastal locations in Maine. While the existence of this tradition has been known for many years and it has been determined that sites range from ca. 8,500 to 3,700 B.P. most individual occurrences are very poorly dated. Mr. Robinson has discovered that materials at many of these sites include small amounts of charcoal; therefore the AMS technique will allow their age to be determined. The Moorehead tradition is known for its elaborate red ocher human burials which are grouped into clearly defined cemeteries. Archaeologists have focussed attention on this phenomenon because such a degree of elaboration is rare among hunters and gathers and suggests complex levels of social organization among this Archaic period people. Mr. Robinson believes that he can use the geographical distribution of cemeteries and their relationships both to each other and to important natural resources to reconstruct both social and ecological aspects of this tradition and to determine how these changed over time. However to conduct such an analysis it is necessary to obtain chronological control over individual sites and this research will accomplish this. This work is important for several reasons. It will increase our understanding of how peoples at a simple level of cultural organization adapted to their social and natural environment. It will provide data of interest to many archaeologists and will assist in the training of a promising young scientist.