Dissertation Research: The Development of Hunter-Gatherer Sedentism in the Santa Barbara Channel Region, California

约希姆 在Michael Jochim博士的指导下，Douglass肯内特先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。他将在位于加州圣巴巴拉海峡地区的圣罗莎岛17平方公里的区域进行考古研究。迄今为止的工作表明，一个漫长的定居历史，涵盖了近10，000年的时间。肯内特先生将调查这一地区，并对从海岸到皮埃蒙特地区的所有环境区进行取样。一旦确定地点，将挖掘选定的样本。对动物群和人工制品组合的分析将提供关于该岛较大定居系统内的地点功能的数据，并提供对随着时间的推移而发生的生计和技术变化的深入了解。 将利用海洋贝的稳定氧和碳同位素分析来重建海洋环境的变化和贝类捕捞季节。这些数据将与季节性和流动性的其他考古指标结合使用，以重建人类住区的模式及其随时间的变化。 由于海峡群岛的界限分明，又由于它们的文化历史，它们为研究复杂社会的出现提供了一个极好的受控环境。 在史前时期，人们可以追溯到从小型平等主义社会群体到更大的定居群体的变化，其特征是专门的工艺制造和新兴的等级组织。在世界许多地方都观察到了同样的模式，考古学家希望了解负责的潜在过程。肯内特先生提出了一些替代模式，并希望收集数据加以检验。他假定可能涉及气候变化，该项目的一个优势在于对动物数据进行化学分析将允许详细的环境重建。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将为复杂的定居社会的发展提供新的线索。它将提供对美国史前史的深入了解，并协助培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

Jochim Under the direction of Dr. Michael Jochim, Mr. Douglass Kennett will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will conduct archaeological research in a 17 kilometer square area of Santa Rosa Island located in the Santa Barbara Channel region of California. Work to date indicates a long settlement history which covers a period of almost 10,000 years. Mr. Kennett will survey this region and sample all environmental zones from the coast to the piedmont areas. Once sites have been identified, a selected sample will be excavated. Analysis of faunal and artifact assemblages will provide data regarding site function within the island's larger settlement system and also provide insight into subsistence and technological change through time. Stable oxygen and carbon isotopic analysis of marine shell from midden deposits will be used to reconstruct changes in the marine environment and the season of shellfish harvesting. These data will be used in combination with other archaeological indicators of seasonality and mobility to reconstruct patterns of human settlement and their change over time. Because they are so clearly circumscribed, and because of their culture history, the Channel Islands provide an excellent controlled situation to study the emergence of complex society. Over their prehistory, one can trace changes from small egalitarian social groups to larger more sedentary aggregations characterized by specialized craft manufacture and emerging hierarchical organization. This same pattern has been observed in many parts of the world and archaeologists wish to understand the underlying processes responsible. Mr. Kennett has proposed a number of alternative models and wishes to collect data to test them. He postulates that climatic change may be involved and one strength of this project rests on the fact that chemical analysis of faunal data will permit detailed environmental reconstruction. This research is important for several reasons. It will sh ed new light on the development of complex sedentary societies. It will provide insight into the prehistory of the United States and assist in the training of a promising young scientist.