Episodes of ice age cave artists - analyses of human spoor with indigenous knowledge and western science

基于三项试点研究（2013年至2015年），这里提出的研究项目将集中在法国西南部晚更新世和早全新世的彩绘洞穴中。来自纳米比亚的土著追踪者将用他们自己的方法在选定的洞穴中调查斯波尔。在本文提出的研究项目的框架内，将用实际的西方方法对同一个点进行分析，以便比较两个知识领域的预期结果。对岩画洞穴中人类足迹的分析是20世纪70年代以来史前研究的一个迫切需要，尽管它提供了有关岩画洞穴使用的重要信息。本文提出的研究项目有三个主要目标：1.对2013年取得的成果的评价，2。从选定的彩绘洞穴中生成新数据，以及3.一个混合科学的布局，用于人类足迹的解释。最后一点将与Tilman Lenssen-Erz（科隆）和Peter Breunig（法兰克福）申请的考古学和土著知识（DFG 944/1）包中的其他两个项目密切相关。特别是将土著知识与西方科学方法结合起来进行阅读人类遗迹的混合科学的建立将可持续地传播到考古科学和更广泛的公众中。

Based on three pilot studies (2013 to 2015) the research project proposed here will focus on late Pleistocene and early Holocene human spoor in painted caves in southwestern France. Indigenous trackers from Namibia will investigate spoor in selected caves with their own methods. The same spoor will be analysed with actual western methods within the frame of the research project proposed here in order to compare the expected results from both fields of knowledge. The analyses of human spoor in painted caves are desiderata in prehistoric research since the 1970s although they provide important information about the use of painted caves. The research project proposed here has three main goals: 1. evaluation of the results produced in 2013, 2. generation of new data from selected painted caves, and 3. layout of a hybrid science for the interpretation of human footprints. The last point will be developed in close connection with the other two projects applied for in package Archaeology and indigenous knowledge (DFG 944/1) with Tilman Lenssen-Erz (Köln) and Peter Breunig (Frankfurt).Especially the setup of a hybrid science of reading human spoor with indigenous knowledge and with western scientific methods will spread sustainably into the archaeological sciences and also into the wider public.