Early Holocene Colonization of Southern Alaska

这是最近在阿拉斯加中南部发现的两个早期史前考古遗址的试点考古研究项目。除了计划对这些遗址进行挖掘，包括一所野外学校外，研究小组还将对该地区进行系统调查，希望发现更多遗址。这项拟议的研究将为在阿拉斯加更新世末期在冰川消融的地貌上殖民的“先驱”狩猎采集种群提供新的见解。除了这项研究可以提供关于早期狩猎采集社会组织、经济适应和定居模式的见解外，这些数据还可能为正在进行的对美洲第一批殖民者的调查开辟新的途径。

This is a pilot archaeological research project of two recently discovered early pre-historic archaeological sites in south central Alaska. In addition to the planned excavation of these sites, including a field school, the research team will do systematic survey of the region in the hopes of uncovering additional sites. The proposed research will give new insights in to "pioneering" hunter-gatherer populations as they colonized the deglaciated landscapes during the terminal Pleistocene in Alaska. In addition to the insights the research can provide on early hunter-gatherer social organization, economic adaptation, and settlement patters, the data may open up new avenues of inquiry into the ongoing investigations of the first colonizers of the Americas.