The Publication of the First Phase of Archaeological and Environmental Research in Western Sahara

这项申请是为了编写一份共同撰写的学术专著，并由PI参加两次会议，以便介绍东英吉利大学在西撒哈拉波利萨里奥控制地区进行的8年考古和环境勘探的结果和解释。西撒哈拉项目（WSP）的目的是从晚更新世到晚全新世的整个史前时期，记录人类对撒哈拉地区的占领和利用的变化性质。考古现场工作在Wadi Tifiriti九平方公里的区域进行，并记录了460多个丧葬和仪式纪念碑，可追溯到公元前5至1千年（全新世中期和晚期结束）和7个占领遗址，主要可追溯到公元前9至8千年（全新世早期）。围绕蒂法里提河的工作提供了一个机会，可以将撒哈拉西部的考古和环境记录与类似纬度的中部和东部地区（如尼日尔、利比亚和苏丹）的记录进行比较，也可以将西部沿海地区、撒哈拉北部边缘地区和萨赫勒地区的占领轨迹进行比较。对该地区进行考古调查的同时，还实施了沉积物和凝灰岩环境取样方案。该项目代表了第一阶段的出版，而迅速出版对于实施第二阶段至关重要，第二阶段旨在成为该地区考古和环境研究的一个更大的系统方案。

This application is for the production of a co-authored scholarly monograph, and for attendance by the PI at two conferences in order to present results and interpretation of eight years of archaeological and environmental exploration undertaken by the University of East Anglia in the Polisario-controlled areas of Western Sahara. The aim of the Western Sahara Project (WSP) has been to document the changing nature of human occupation and utilisation of an area of the Sahara that remained comparatively well watered throughout prehistory, from the Late Pleistocene into the Late Holocene. Archaeological fieldwork was undertaken in a nine square kilometre region of the Wadi Tifiriti and has documented over 460 funerary and ritual monuments dating from the 5th to the 1st millennia b.p. (the end of the Middle and the Late Holocene) and seven occupation sites, mostly dating to the 9th and 8th millennia b.p.(the Early Holocene). The work around the Wadi Tifariti represents an opportunity to compare the archaeological and environmental records of the far west of the Sahara with records from central and eastern regions at similar latitudes (e.g. Niger, Libya, and Sudan), as well as with trajectories of coastal occupation to the west, and of occupation on the northern Saharan fringes and in the Sahel. Archaeological investigation of the region has been supplemented by a programme of environmental sampling of sediments and tufas. This Project represents the publication of Phase 1 and expeditious publication is crucial for implementing Phase 2, which aims to be a much larger systematic programme of archaeological and environmental study in the region.