Collaborative Research: The Hot Springs Village Site: a Window to Southern Bering Sea Paleo-Ecosystems and Human - Landscape Interactions

合作研究：温泉村遗址：了解南白令海古生态系统和人地景观相互作用的窗口

• 批准号: 1203959
• 负责人: Nicole Misarti
• 金额: $ 27.67万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203959&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Hot; Springs; Village

The southern Bering Sea and Bristol Bay are home to the United States? most important fisheries. Understanding the southern Bering Sea ecosystem is so critical to our understanding of climate change, global economic development, and modern fisheries that a number of US agencies have invested considerable resources to understand the Bering Sea ecosystem. Yet little is known about the ancient history of the Bering Sea, with no baseline from which to measure any modern changes. This collaborative project will undertake excavations at precisely identified locations in temporally distinct middens at the Hot Springs site, Port Moller, Alaskan Peninsula. Hot Springs has been excavated repeatedly in the past but poorly documented. It is one of the largest, if not the largest, village site on the Bering Sea coast, the northernmost known Aleut village, and a potential place for Aleut/Alutiiq interaction or occupation. On these grounds, alone, it is worth re-investigating to understand better regional prehistory. However, the PIs will also investigate major archaeological and ecological questions in the Bering Sea region, including human use of landscapes, stability and change in subsistence practices, species distribution, long-term climate change, and sea ice regimes. The project will add much to our understanding of human ecodynamic systems in the southeastern Bering Sea region, as well as including education and training for local Aleut students.What makes this project most important is that the site was occupied during some of the warmest climatic regimes of the last 5000 years, often during time periods when the rest of the Alaska Peninsula shows a sparse population. It is at the southern edge of the winter ice pack but has deep and stratified shellfish deposits from 4000 years of human harvesting. Over 100 taxa of mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish have been identified in the Hot Springs deposits. Using systematic and targeted excavations to collect large samples of faunal remains from the Hot Springs Village site, the PIs will reconstruct the environmental history of the southern Bering Sea with the potential to create a baseline for modern fisheries studies.

白令海南部和布里斯托尔湾是美国的家？最重要的渔业。了解南部白令海生态系统对于我们对气候变化，全球经济发展和现代渔业的理解至关重要，以至于美国许多机构投入了大量资源来了解白令海生态系统。然而，对白令海的古老历史知之甚少，没有基线来衡量任何现代变化。该协作项目将在阿拉斯加半岛莫勒港的温泉网站上精确地识别出在暂时不同的中间地点进行发掘。过去，温泉曾多次挖掘出来，但记录得很少。它是白令海海岸，最北的阿勒特村庄，最大的村庄，甚至最大的村庄，也是Aleut/Alutiiq互动或职业的潜在地方。 仅凭这些理由，仅凭这些理由就可以重新审查了解更好的区域史前史。但是，PI还将调查白令海地区的主要考古和生态问题，包括人类使用景观，稳定性和自给自足实践的变化，物种分布，长期气候变化和海冰制度。 该项目将为我们对南部白令海地区人类生态动力学系统的理解，以及包括对当地Aleut学生的教育和培训，使该项目最重要的是，在过去5000年的一些温暖的气候制度中，通常在阿拉斯加Peninsula的其余时间内显示出稀疏的人群。 它位于冬季冰袋的南部边缘，但从4000年的人类收获中有深层贝类沉积物。在温泉沉积物中已经确定了100多个哺乳动物，鸟类，鱼类和贝类的分类单元。使用系统和有针对性的发掘从温泉村遗址收集大量动物遗迹，PIS将重建白令海南部的环境历史，并有可能为现代渔业研究创建基线。