Hunter-gatherer behaviour in the landscape:reconstructing movement patterns in the British Late Upper Palaeolithic

将LA-ICP-MS技术应用于合适的人工制品、地点和来源的样本大小，将首次允许对英国晚马格达莱纳原材料采购网络进行明确的重建。关于领土大小、资源年度调度和人类行为的地形关键的假设将首次在区域尺度的背景下得到检验。这将使英国旧石器时代晚期的考古学第一次坚定地超越时间文化排序，并提供与当代欧洲马格达莱纳群体直接比较的数据。几个研究问题为这种比较提供了背景，每个问题都可以在结果的参数范围内清楚地解决。石器采购网络在范围和方向上有多大的变化，这揭示了马格达莱尼晚期领土的大小？这些与当代大陆上的晚期马格达莱尼地区相比如何？这种相似性是否意味着大陆适应性的直接延伸到这个国家？或者，哪些因素可以解释主要差异？采购网络的方向性是否支持塞文河和特伦特河在马格达莱纳河晚期形成英国主要交通轴的观点？从原材料的移动来看，主要遗址是由同一集团生产的说法是否合理？是否有任何未被确认的来源可以用来表明英国集团在该国现代地理范围之外的运作？研究结果对景观学习过程的影响是什么？具体来说，采购和维持生计的回合是如何以及以何种速度建立起来的，这些与殖民运动的明显模式有什么关系？该项目的总体意义在于，它将允许对与重大国际研究问题直接相关的晚更新世人类行为进行详细的、区域（在这种情况下是国家）规模的重建。

The application of the LA-ICP-MS technique to a suitable sample size of artefacts, sites and sources will allow the unambiguous reconstruction of British Late Magdalenian raw material procurement networks for the first time. Hypotheses about territorial size, annual scheduling of resources and topographical keys to human behaviour will be testable for the first time at the context of the regional scale. This will, for the first time, allow British Upper Palaeolithic archaeology to move firmly beyond chrono-cultural ordering and provide data directly comparable to that of contemporary European Magdalenian groups. Several research questions provide a context for such a comparison, each clearly addressable within the parameters of the results. How variable in range and direction were lithic procurement networks and what does this reveal about the size of Late Magdalenian territories? How do these compare with those of contemporary Late Magdalenian regions on the continent? Does similarity suggest the straightforward extension of continental adaptations onto the country? Alternatively, what factors might explain major differences? Does the directionality of procurement networks support the notion that the Severn and Trent rivers formed the main communication axis in Britain in the Late Magdalenian? Is the notion that major sites were produced by the same group justifiable in the light of raw material movements? Have any sources remained unidentified which may be taken to suggest the operation of British groups outside the modem geographical limits of the country? What are the implications of the results with regard to landscape learning processes; specifically, how and at what rate were procurement and subsistence rounds established and how did these relate to the apparent patterns of colonisation movement? The overall significance of the project is that it will allow detailed, regional (in this case national) scale reconstruction of Late Pleistocene human behaviour directly relevant to major international research issues.