RAPID Gardar Collaborative Rescue Project

该奖项将支持国际多学科的密集努力，从格陵兰前挪威东定居点现代Igaliku的Gardar E47独特遗址的快速退化的文化沉积物中抢救重要的有机遗迹。 该遗址的独特之处在于它代表了一座世纪的教堂和庄园农场，是维京人在格陵兰岛的第一个定居点的行政和宗教中心，直到大约1450年维京人灭绝。 因此，Gardar遗址有可能提供独特的见解，以了解格陵兰岛的结构和组织变化及其社会对气候变化和文化接触的反应。 Gardar遗址的古生物非常丰富，这是令人关切的问题，也是提出这一快速建议的原因。 当加尔达作为国际和平年关于气候变化如何影响北极文化资源的项目的一部分进行评估时，它被强调为高度濒危的遗址。 直到1981年，该遗址才被证明有很好的有机物质保存;不幸的是，由于北极气候条件的变化，以前的有利条件正在迅速变化。 冻土的减少造成了无法辨认的？骨泥？从该遗址保存完好的有机物质中提取 除了不断变化的环境条件外，当地农民还在场地周围的草地上挖了很深的排水沟，以排走现在的积水。这些沟渠进一步破坏了遗址的稳定性，使其面临进一步的有机数据融化和破坏。 该遗址已被格陵兰政府提名为联合国世界遗产，因为它对现代格陵兰文化历史的独特贡献，使受到威胁的数据以及可能获得的科学分析和见解变得更加重要。 实地小组在2012年有三个目标：1）对最濒危的矿藏进行密集的抢救性挖掘和现场记录; 2）确保对抢救出来的材料进行有效的挖掘后管理和分析; 3）将Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaaterqarfial/格陵兰国家博物馆&档案馆（NKA）有了准确的数字地图和地球物理勘探结果，他们将需要有效地管理这一被提名的世界遗产，以造福格陵兰社区。

This RAPID award will support an intensive international multi-disciplinary effort to salvage critical organic remains from rapidly degrading cultural deposits at the unique site of Gardar E47 at modern Igaliku in the former Norse Eastern Settlement in Greenland. This site is unique in that it represents a church and manor farm from the 11th century, was the administrative and religious center for the first settlement of the Norse in Greenland, and remained thus until the extinction of the Norse ca 1450. As such, the Gardar site has the potential to provide unique insights into the changing structure and organization of Norse Greenland and its society response to climate change and culture contact at this time period. The site at Gardar is very rich in archaeofauna, which is the source of concern and the reason for this RAPID proposal. When Gardar was assessed as part of an IPY project on how climate change was affecting cultural resources in the Arctic, it was highlighted as a highly endangered site. As recently as 1981 the site was shown to have great preservation of organic materials; unfortunately, the previously favorable conditions are rapidly changing due to changing climate conditions in the Arctic. The decrease in frozen ground is creating an unidentifiable ?bone mush? out of much of the previously well preserved organic materials at the site. In addition to the changing environmental conditions, the local farmers have been cutting deep drainage ditches into the meadows surrounding the site in order to drain off the now standing water. These ditches have further destabilized the site exposing it to further melting and destruction of organic data. The site has been nominated by the Government of Greenland as a UN World Heritage Site because of its unique contribution to the cultural history of modern Greenland, making the threatened data and the scientific analyses and insights that could be gained all the more important. The field team has three objectives for the 2012 season: to 1) carry out an intensive season of rescue excavation and site documentation of the most endangered deposits; 2) ensure effective post-excavation curation and analysis of the rescued materials; and 3) leave the Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaaterqarfial/The Greenland National Museum & Archives (NKA) with an accurate digital site map and geophysical prospection results they will need to effectively manage this nominated World heritage site for the benefit o f the Greenlandic community.