RAPID: Assessment of a Frozen Archaeology Site

这是一个小型的RAPID奖励给PI Susan Kaplan，让她利用加拿大公园的船只和北极熊监测器在加拿大拉布拉多北部进行为期两周的免费实地考察。该项目将对拉布拉多南端以南25英里的中多塞特（公元800年至1000年；CE意为普通时代或相当于1216年前至1016年前）考古遗址（Avayalik-1）进行稳定性评估。世界范围内的考古遗产受到环境变化的威胁；在北极，这表现为海平面上升和随之而来的风暴潮侵蚀沿海地区。和北极的其他地方一样，Avayalik-1永久冻土正在融化，导致水文变化，脆弱的有机文物和动物遗骸恶化。这项调查将评估永久冻土考古遗址的脆弱性，这将有助于讨论如何评估、监测和保护这些遗址。科学界、文化资源管理者以及在许多情况下是原居住者的后代的土著居民都对这些资料非常感兴趣。Avayalik-1是中多塞特（前图勒文化，现代因纽特人的祖先）的一个科学独特的遗址。Avayalik-1最后一次调查是在1978年，在数量和保存方面都是拉布拉多中部多塞特任何其他地点无法超越的有机文物和动物遗骸，因为地面是永久冻结的。然而，由于北极目前的状况和永久冻土的迅速融化，许多几十年来被认为没有受到威胁的北极遗产现在正面临威胁。Avayalik-1就是这样一个网站。这个重要的项目将帮助考古学家和文化遗产管理者确定Avayalik-1遗址是否处于濒危状态，这将标志着一项重要的古因纽特人环境和文化记录的潜在损失。此外，新的考古和数据技术将应用于从该遗址采集的土壤样本，这些技术在1978年最后一次研究该遗址时还没有。这些数据将有助于评估该地点的全部潜力，有助于我们了解人们如何适应充满挑战的环境中的生活，以及北大西洋海洋生态如何随着时间的推移而变化。

This is a small RAPID award for PI Susan Kaplan to take advantage of a Parks Canada vessel and polar bear monitors free of charge for two weeks fieldwork in northern Labrador, Canada. This project will be a stability assessment of a Middle Dorset (800 CE to 1,000 CE; CE meaning Common Era or the equivalent of 1,216 years ago to 1,016 years ago) archaeological site (Avayalik-1) 25 miles south of the tip of Labrador.Worldwide archaeological heritage is under threat from environmental change; in the Arctic this is manifested as sea level rise and the accompanying storm surges eating way at coastal sites. As in other places in the Arctic, Avayalik-1 permafrost is melting causing changes in hydrology and the deterioration of fragile organic artifacts and faunal remains. This investigation will assess the vulnerability of archaeological sites in permafrost, which will contribute to discussions on how to assess, monitor, and preserve such sites. This information is of great interest to the scientific community, culture resource managers but also to the indigenous residents who are in many cases the decedents of the original occupants.Avayalik-1 is a scientifically unique site of Middle Dorset (pre Thule culture, the ancestors of modern Inuit people). Avayalik-1, last investigated in 1978, yielded organic artifacts and faunal remains unsurpassed in quantity and preservation by any other Labrador Middle Dorset sites due to the fact the ground was permanently frozen. However, with the current state of the Arctic and the rapidly thawing permafrost, many Arctic heritage sites thought for decades to be not endangered are now under threat. Avayalik-1 is such a site. This important project will assist archaeologists and culture heritage managers in determining whether the Avayalik-1 site is endangered, which would signal a potential loss of a critical Paleo-Inuit environmental and cultural record. In addition, new archaeometric and data techniques will be applied to the soil samples taken from the site, techniques not available in 1978 when the site was last studied. This data will help in assessing the full potential of the site for contributing to our understanding of how people have adapted to life in challenging environment sand how the ecology of the maritime North Atlantic has changed over time.