AWARE U.S.-China Cooperative Research on Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Tibetan Plateau

这是由中国新宁青海省盐湖研究所的Jeffery Brantingham博士和马海洲教授提交的为期36个月的AWARE项目，旨在研究青藏高原更新世的狩猎采集者，并为6名“杰出”的美国本科生提供REU培训机会。这是了解晚更新世人类对青藏高原地区的定居和适应的一个很好的建议。这项研究很好地整合了考古学、古环境和地理年代学的研究策略，以回答在行为现代人进化研究中广泛重要的问题。该项目为美国本科生在中国西部进行考古训练和实地考察提供了极好的机会。它还开发了可以整合到区域和全球气候变率和变化模式中的古气候代理记录。该项目由美国国家科学基金会和中国科学院共同支持。

0214870BrantinghamThis is a 36-month AWARE project submitted by Dr. Jeffery Brantingham, Santa Fe Institute with Professor MA Haizhou, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Xinning, China, to study the Pleistocene hunter-gatherers of the Tibetan Plateau, and to provide an REU training opportunity for six "exceptional" U.S. undergraduate students. This is an excellent proposal to understand late Pleistocene human colonization and adaptation to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region. This study nicely integrates archeological, paleo-environmental, and geochronological research strategies to answer questions of broad importance in the study of evolution of behaviorally modern humans. This project provides excellent opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to be trained in archeology and to learn to carry out field research in the western part of China. It also develops paleoclimatic proxy records that can be integrated into regional and global models of climate variability and change. The NSF and the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly support this project.