Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Geoarchaeology of Estuarine Seascapes

博士论文改进补助金：河口海景地质考古学

基本信息

批准号：
2024397
负责人：
Thomas Pluckhahn
金额：
$ 2.22万
依托单位：
University of South Florida
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-08-01 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2024397&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Geoarchaeology

项目摘要

The focus of this doctoral dissertation research project is to reconstruct the roles that coastal Native American societies played in the establishment and transformation of nearshore estuarine ecosystems. Previous geoscientific and archaeological work has studied the evolution of estuaries as non-anthropogenic or ‘pre-anthropogenic’ ecotones, and conceptualized Indigenous maritime societies as passive inhabitants of bountiful and dynamic environments. This dissertation research will integrate geoarchaeological and paleoecological approaches to reconceptualize coastal peoples as ecosystem engineers and tidal estuarine habitats as the products of deep-time human-environmental interaction. This dissertation research will produce historical reconstructions for the process of marine transgression along the Gulf Coastal strand, knowledge of estuary management by Native Americans, and pre-industrial baseline data for measuring modern sea-level rise and historical degradation. The project will investigate the general hypothesis that ancient Indigenous societies engineered nearshore ecosystems through the construction and maintenance of terraformed shellworks. The research will be conducted at several well-preserved archaeological complexes along a large open-water estuary system that was intensively occupied by Native American populations. Sedimentological, paleobotanical, and radiocarbon analyses on sediment cores and archaeological excavation units will be correlated to reconstruct the geological and ecological relationships between Indigenous shell-terraforming and the establishment of protected, low-energy intertidal habitats. Feedbacks between anthropogenic habitat modification, subsistence production, and the emplacement of civic architecture will be assessed by comparing the core records with zooarchaeological assemblages and construction sequences of midden-mounds. This interdisciplinary dataset will contribute to improved ecological and anthropological understanding of intertidal ecosystems. The study will be carried out in consultation with local and regional land managers and conservation agencies with the explicit intent that results and research products may be integrated into management, conservation, and restoration planning.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该博士学位论文研究项目的重点是重建沿海原住民社会在近海河口生态系统的建立和转型中所扮演的角色。以前的地球科学和存档工作已经研究了河口的演变，因为它们是非人为或“人类前”的ecotones的演变，并将概念化的土著海洋社会概念化为充满活力和动态环境的被动影响。这项论文研究将整合地理学和古生态学方法，以重新构想沿海人作为生态系统工程师和潮汐河口栖息地作为深度人类环境互动的产物。这项论文研究将产生历史重建，以沿墨西哥湾沿海链的海洋违法行为，美洲原住民对河口管理的了解以及用于衡量现代海平面上升和历史退化的工业前基线数据。该项目将调查一般假设，即古代土著社会通过建造和维护地Terraformed Shellworks设计了近岸生态系统。该研究将在保存完好的考古综合体沿大型开放水上河口系统上进行，该系统被美国原住民大量占领。对沉积物核心和考古发掘单元的沉积学，古植物和放射性碳分析将与重建土著壳体形式之间的地质和生态关系相关，并建立了受保护的，低能的，低能的跨滋生栖息地。人为栖息地的修改，生存产生和公民建筑的增态之间的反馈将通过比较核心记录与动物考古学的组合和中间月的构造序列进行比较。该跨学科数据集将有助于改善对潮间生态系统的生态和人类学理解。这项研究将与当地和地区土地管理者和保护机构进行协商，并具有明确意图，即结果和研究产品可能会纳入管理，保护和恢复计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来审查Criteria来通过评估来通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（5）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Geoarchaeology and Coastal Morphodynamics of Harbor Key (8MA15): Indigenous Persistence at a Partially Inundated Native Shell Mound Complex in Tampa Bay, Florida

Harbour Key 的地质考古学和海岸形态动力学（8MA15）：佛罗里达州坦帕湾部分被淹没的本土贝丘复合体的土著居民的持续存在

DOI：
10.1017/aaq.2023.45
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
American Antiquity
影响因子：
2.8
作者：
Jackson, Kendal;Pluckhahn, Thomas J.;Rogers, Jaime A.;Wang, Ping;Thompson, Victor D.
通讯作者：
Thompson, Victor D.

Of marsh and mangrove: coupled biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of 20th century wetland conversion in Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida (USA)