The Broad Spectrum Revolution and Upper Paleolithic Rabbit Hunting on the Iberian Peninsula

在国家科学基金会的支持下，艾米丽琼斯博士将分析伊比利亚半岛三个旧石器时代遗址的动物群遗骸：安布罗西奥、埃斯特万维拉和内尔哈。 该项目将包括前往西班牙与收藏品和西班牙同事一起工作，随后在犹他州州立大学进行统计分析。这些组合很有趣，因为它们表明饮食从基于少数大型高回报动物（如驯鹿）的转变为包含“广泛”资源的饮食，包括许多较小的低回报项目（如兔子）。 为什么饮食在这样的环境条件下会扩大？也许是因为气候变化或人类的过度捕猎，大型哺乳动物越来越少，所以必须在饮食中加入较小的猎物。然而，改变狩猎策略也会导致觅食者饮食中小型猎物的增加。 例如，在法国西南部，这种转变似乎既不是气候驱动的环境变化的直接结果，也不是人类对大型脊椎动物影响的结果，而是至少部分由气候驱动的欧洲兔子迁移造成的。 通过测试在西班牙旧石器时代晚期遗址中以沃伦为基础的欧洲兔子狩猎，这里提出的研究将促进我们对伊比利亚半岛旧石器时代兔子狩猎的原因和背景的理解，更广泛地说，我们对欧洲西南部广谱革命的理解。首先，拟议的研究将促进国际合作;作为该项目的一部分，将在几所西班牙大学和犹他州州立大学之间建立联系。此外，该项目还将让犹他州州立大学-布里格姆城校区的美国本科生参与数据的分析。USU布里格姆市主要服务于非传统的学生，包括肖松尼和当地西班牙裔社区的西北乐队的成员;因此，一些传统上在科学中代表性不足的人口将有机会参与科学分析和发现。然而，最关键的“更广泛的影响”在于拟议的研究适用于更大范围的人类决策讨论。人们日益认识到，人类适应气候变化的考古数据对于制定环境政策至关重要;例如，在哥本哈根举行的气候变化大会上，琼斯博士进行的相关研究已被列入其中。该项目将有助于这一对话。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Emily Jones will analyze faunal remains from three Paleolithic sites on the Iberian Peninsula: Ambrosio, Estebanvela, and Nerja. This project will include travel to Spain to work with the collections and with Spanish colleagues, and subsequent statistical analysis at Utah State University.These assemblages are of interest because they indicate a shift from diets based on a few, large, higher-return animals (such as reindeer) to those containing a "broad spectrum" of resources, including many smaller, lower-return items (such as rabbits). Why did diets broaden in this set of environmental circumstances? Perhaps there were fewer large mammals available, either because of climate change or human overhunting, so that smaller prey had to be added to the diets. However, changing hunting strategies can also result in an increase in small prey in a forager's diet. In southwestern France, for instance, this transition seems to have been neither a direct result of climate-driven environmental change nor a result of human impact on larger vertebrates, but rather, caused at least in part by the climate-driven migration of the European rabbit. By testing for warren-based hunting of the European Rabbit in Upper Paleolithic sites in Spain, the research proposed here will advance our understanding of the causes and contexts of Paleolithic rabbit hunting on the Iberian Peninsula, and, more broadly, our understanding of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in southwestern Europe.The broader impacts of this proposal center on three areas. First, the proposed research will foster international collaboration; as part of the project, ties will be established between several Spanish universities and Utah State University. In addition, the project will involve American undergraduate students at the Utah State University - Brigham City campus in the analysis of data. USU-Brigham City primarily serves non-traditional students, including members of the Northwest Band of Shoshone and of the local Hispanic community; thus a number of populations traditionally underrepresented in science will have the opportunity to participate in scientific analysis and discovery. The most critical "broader impact," however, resides in the proposed research's applicability to larger discussions of human decision-making in light of environmental change. Archaeological data on human adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized as essential in informing environmental policy; related research conducted by the Dr. Jones has been included, for instance, in the Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen. This project will contribute to this dialogue.