The Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Mesoamerican Corridor (Guatemala): Megafauna, Environmental Change and Human Settlement

在这里，我们申请资助一项关于危地马拉的地质考古先导研究。我们将与危地马拉危地马拉城圣卡洛斯大学的合作伙伴Lorena Davila一起，评估该国波罗契克-莫塔瓜和Huehuetenango地区三个晚更新世-早全新世遗址的地质考古和古生物潜力。来自La Estanzuela、Chivanabé和San Rafael这些地点的样本将用于评估化石和沉积物作为具有代表性的地质档案的质量和有效性，以执行高端的基于实验室的方法。危地马拉位于北美洲和南美洲之间的生物地理走廊，被认为是解决有关更新世大型动物群最后组成部分以及美洲早期人类住区问题的重要区域。计划中的项目也可能是DFG(圆桌小组，2017年1月31日，波恩)鼓励的跨学科Schwerpenkt的未来启动，其中将包括广泛的自然科学以及考古学、古生物学和人类学。

Here we apply for funding of a geoarchaeological pilot study on Guatemala. Along with our cooperation partner Lorena Davila from the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala City, Guatemala we will evaluate the geoarchaeological and palaeontological potential of three late Pleistocene-early Holocene sites in the Polochic-Motagua and Huehuetenango regions of the country. Samples from these sites at La Estanzuela, Chivacabé and San Rafael, will be used to evaluate the quality and validity of fossils and sediments as representative geoarchives to perform high-end lab-based methodologies. Guatemala, located in the biogeographic corridor between North- and South America, is regarded to be an important region to solve questions on the last elements of the Pleistocene megafauna and, perhaps, the early human settlement of the Americas. The planned project may also be a future kick-off of an interdisciplinary Schwerpunkt encouraged by the DFG (Round-Table panel, 31.1.2017 in Bonn), which would include a wide range of natural sciences as well as archaeology, palaeontology and anthropology.