Co-production of scientific knowledge and the building of local archeological capacity in Greenland.

该项目建立在以前的NSF支持的工作，以了解人类，景观，海景和气候在该地区的相互作用，因为人类占领格陵兰岛。由于土壤温度上升和海岸侵蚀加速，一度保存完好的有机遗骸迅速流失，这项工作更加紧迫。这项工作将直接建设格陵兰当地的能力，以便格陵兰的主要合作伙伴格陵兰国家博物馆和档案馆（NKA）能够改善长期的遗址管理，保持未来研究这些遗址和其他遗址的能力。这种威胁延伸到所有时期，并延伸到墓地和建筑废墟。利用稳定同位素、微量元素和古代DNA的新实验室研究证明了考古遗址作为“过去的分布式观测网络”的价值，用于跨学科的社会环境合作研究。这项工作促进了美国、格陵兰和丹麦之间在2004年建立的长期关系，以推进共同项目，并鼓励在包括科学、文化和环境在内的各种政策领域开展合作。格陵兰对发展有关其文化历史的知识的项目特别感兴趣。该项目将与格陵兰主办方和其他国际合作伙伴密切合作，拯救紧急濒危的考古遗址，收集广泛的古生态数据，并与渴望拯救其遗产的现代社区合作，同时共同创造知识并直接参与全球变化科学。该项目将挖掘三个挪威墓地，以恢复现在产生饮食证据的人类遗骸（即，氮和碳稳定同位素，牙石分析），从冰岛移民的证据（例如，锶同位素）和家庭关系（通过古老的DNA）。该项目还将在三个仍然保留有机物保存的地点挖掘动物骨骼，昆虫，木材遗骸和分层的挪威贝冢中的文物。扩大现场调查使用无人机和测绘全球定位系统，取芯的湖泊和沼泽存款花粉，昆虫，和macrofloral仍然，专业的医疗文件，以产生教育和推广产品，并扩大地质考古计划，以评估挪威领域和农场管理战略都是该项目的一部分。 一个关键因素将是早期职业学生和专业人员的参与，以及与学校和当地居民的密切合作，重点是早期摩拉维亚使命和Alluitsoq/Lichtenau定居点，它是18世纪跨文化接触和发展独特格陵兰文化的主要中心，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project builds upon prior NSF-supported work to understand the interactions of humans, landscape, seascape, and climate in the region since humans occupied Greenland. The work is given additional urgency as there is rapid loss of once well-preserved organic remains due to rising soil temperatures and accelerated coastal erosion. The work will directly build local Greenlandic capacity so that the key Greenlandic partner, Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) can improve long-term site management preserving the ability to study these and other sites in the future. The threat extends to all periods and extends to cemeteries and structural ruins. New laboratory studies making use of stable isotopes, trace elements, and ancient DNA demonstrate the value of archaeological sites as a "distributed observing network of the past" for collaborative interdisciplinary socio-environmental research. This work contributes to a long-standing relationship developed in 2004 between the US, Greenland, and Denmark to advance common projects and encourage cooperation across a diverse range of policy areas including science, culture, and the environment. Greenland has shown particular interest in projects that develop knowledge about its cultural past. The project will work closely with the Greenlandic hosts and other international partners to rescue urgently endangered archaeological sites, gather a wide range of paleoecological data, and collaborate with modern communities eager to save their heritage while co-producing knowledge and participating directly in global change science. The project will excavate three Norse cemeteries to recover human remains that now produce dietary evidence (i.e., nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes, dental calculus analysis), evidence of migration from Iceland (e.g., strontium isotopes) and family relationships (via ancient DNA). The project will also excavate animal bones, insects, wood remains, and artifacts from stratified Norse middens at three sites that still retain organic preservation. Expanded site survey using drones and mapping GPS, coring of lake and bog deposits for pollen, insects, and macrofloral remains, professional medial documentation to produce education and outreach products, and an expanded geo-archaeology program to assess Norse field and farm management strategies are all part of the project. A key element will be the engagement of early career students and professionals and the close collaboration with schools and local residents focused upon the early Moravian mission and settlement site of Alluitsoq/Lichtenau, which was a major center for cross-cultural contact and the development of a distinctive Greenlandic culture in the 18th- early 20th centuries.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.