Dendroarchaeology of the Range Creek Fremont

在国家科学基金会的支持下，罗纳德·汤纳博士、蕾妮·巴洛博士和马修·索尔泽博士将在迄今确定的最大一组弗里蒙特原始考古遗址上进行为期两个季节的树轮研究。作为来自四所大学的学生和来自两个利益集团的志愿者参与的更大合作努力的一部分，该项目将显著增强我们对犹他州东北部弗里蒙特文化(公元800-1300年)的科学理解，包括它作为一个农业社会的开花和在与欧美人接触之前的消亡。研究小组还将研究该地区过去800-1000年来降雨模式的变化，并将这种变化与弗里蒙特、犹特和历史上牧场土地利用模式的变化联系起来。该项目的目标是从多达50个以前不为人知的弗里蒙特建筑中收集树木年轮样本并进行年代测定，开发长达数个世纪的树木年轮年表，重建犹他州东北部过去1000年的降水模式，并创建可能具有全球应用的半干旱环境中人与环境相互作用的模型。作为这项工作的一部分，研究人员将培训本科生、研究生和志愿者适当收集考古和活树样本，以便他们能够在项目结束后继续研究。研究生和本科生都将使用项目数据作为他们研究项目的一部分。这个项目是一个独特而令人兴奋的机会，可以在不同的大学和兴趣团体之间发展合作，同时研究原始的弗里蒙特考古遗址，过去1000年的气候变化，以及人们在顺境和逆境中适应半干旱环境的无数方式。该项目将为对弗里蒙特的科学理解和理解人与环境的相互作用提供重大修订的基础。

With support from the National Science Foundation, Drs. Ronald Towner, Renee Barlow, and Matthew Salzer will conduct two seasons of tree-ring research on the largest set of pristine Fremont archaeological sites yet identified. As one part of a larger collaborative effort involving students from four universities and volunteers from two interest groups, the project will significantly enhance our scientific understanding of the Fremont culture of northeastern Utah (AD 800-1300) including its florescence as an agricultural society and demise prior to Euroamerican contact. The team will also examine variations in rainfall patterns in the area for the past 800-1000 years and relate such changes to changing Fremont, Ute, and historic ranching land use patterns. The goals of the project are to collect and date tree-ring samples from as many as 50 previously unknown Fremont structures, develop multi-century long tree-ring chronologies, reconstruct precipitation patterns of northeastern Utah for the past thousand years, and create models of human/environment interaction in semi-arid environments that may have global applications.As part of this effort, the investigators will train undergraduate and graduate students, and volunteers, in the proper collection of archaeological and live-tree samples so that they will be able to continue the research after the end of the project. Both graduate and undergraduate students will use the project data as part of their research projects.This project is a unique and exciting opportunity to develop collaborations between different universities and interest groups while researching pristine Fremont archaeological sites, climate variability for the past 1000 years, and the myriad ways people adapted to their semi-arid environment in good times and in bad times. The project will provide the basis for major revisions in the scientific understanding of the Fremont and to understanding human/environment interactions.