Dissertation Research: The Rocky Mountains as Part of a Regional Model of Paleoindian Adaptations in the Western United States.

在C博士的指导下。万斯海恩斯女士邦妮皮特布拉多将收集她的博士论文的数据。她将利用已经挖掘出的考古材料研究来自美国平原、落基山脉和大盆地的石器。她将专注于古印度时期-从大约10,000到7,500 BP。- 并对来自科罗拉多和犹他州的投射点进行详细分析，因为这两个州一起跨越三个地理区域。她还将对来自九个地点的所有石器材料进行广泛的分析，每个地区三个。通过对原材料来源、制造过程和成品形式的研究，她希望确定这三个领域之间的关系。在大盆地和大平原进行了大量的挖掘，古印第安时期这些地区的考古学已经相当了解。然而，人们对落基山脉的了解要少得多。一些考古学家认为，这个环境恶劣的地区全年都有人居住，不同的人群对这个地区产生了独特的适应。另一些人认为，古印第安文化的技术水平无法应对这样的挑战。皮特布拉多女士将通过她的分析来回答这个问题。 这项研究意义重大，原因有几个。首先，它将为考古学家提供非常感兴趣的信息，并有助于阐明美国史前史的一个鲜为人知的时期。第二，它将为人类与环境之间的相互作用以及人口在简单技术水平上适应的基本能力提供新的视角。第三，这项工作有可能对考古方法学作出重大贡献，因为它将进一步发展和应用技术分析石器材料。最后，这笔赠款将有助于培养一名有前途的年轻考古学家。

Under the direction of Dr. C. Vance Haynes MS Bonnie Pitblado will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. Working with already excavated archaeological materials she will study lithic artifacts from the U.S. Plains, Rocky Mountains and Great Basin. She will focus on the Paleoindian period - from approximately 10,000 to 7,500 BP. - and conduct a detailed analysis of projectile points from Colorado and Utah since these two states together span the three geographic zones. She will also conduct a broad scale analysis of all lithic materials from nine sites, three from each of the areas. Through examination of raw material origin, manufacturing process and form of completed objects she hopes to determine the relationships between these three areas. A great deal of excavation has been conducted in both the Great Basin and the Plains and the archaeology of these areas during the Paleoindian period is fairly well understood. Much less however is known about the Rocky Mountains. Some archaeologists believe that this environmentally difficult area was inhabited year round and that separate groups of people developed a distinctive adaptation to this region. Others believe that cultures at a Paleoindian level of technology were unable to meet such a challenge. MS Pitblado will address this question through her analysis. This research is significant for a number of reasons. First it will provide information of great interest to archaeologists and help to illuminate a little understood period of U.S. prehistory. Secondly, it will shed new light on human-environment interactions and the basic ability of populations to adapt at simple levels of technology. Third, the work has the potential to make a significant contribution to archaeological methodology since it will further the development and application of techniques for the analysis of lithic materials. Finally this grant will assist in the training of a promising young archaeologist.