Collaborative Research: Management Practices and Microbial Communities in Prehistoric Aquaculture

合作研究：史前水产养殖的管理实践和微生物群落

• 批准号: 2242083
• 负责人: Kiana Frank
• 金额: $ 8.79万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242083&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Management; Practices; Microbial

This project investigates how early farmers used microbes to maintain and manage fish production. Archaeological research has identified a highly productive agricultural systems that produced wetland and dryland crops, such as sweet potato and taro. Fishpond aquaculture was a critical part of this system and was used to reliably supply fish for elite households. Stemming from agricultural practices that originated in Central and East Polynesia, which were brought to Hawai’i by Polynesian voyagers, fishponds represent a unique innovation that created a productive and resilient niche for human habitation. Based upon the diversity of forms and historically identified practices, fishpond management must have relied upon the intimate knowledge of the life cycle of various species, as well as practices that supported the micro-organisms in ponds. The archaeological investigation of fishpond management in the past aids in answering several related fundamental questions: how did ecological knowledge translate to practices that modified the natural environment, and how did these practices support a growing population well as a dynamic political economy? The research will be conducted in partnership with the local community and includes collective fieldwork and laboratory research that supports the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge along with STEM training for Hawaiian students.The research team will pair methods from microbiology and archaeology to examine the sediments of the remains of a fishpond, located within a coastal dunes and wetlands refuge. A team of archaeologists, microbiologists, paleoecologists, and local community volunteers plan to investigate a thousand-year sequence of aquacultural production. Combining sediment cores, archaeological excavations, zooarchaeological analysis of fish remains, radiocarbon dating, and the genetic analysis of microbes in sediments, the team will sequence and analyze the succession of management practices over the history of the fishpond. Sequences will be compared to a theoretical model that predicts human niche construction and entry-points for elite management.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.

该项目调查了农民如何使用微生物维护和管理鱼类生产的方法。考古研究已经确定了一种高产的农业系统，该系统生产了湿地和旱地作物，例如红薯和塔罗。 Fishpond水产养殖是该系统的关键部分，用于可靠地为精英家庭提供鱼类。源自波利尼西亚旅行者带到夏威夷中部和东波利尼西亚的农业习俗，渔庞代表了一种独特的创新，它为人类栖息地创造了一种产品和有弹性的利基市场。基于形式的多样性和历史上确定的实践，渔王管理必须依靠对各种物种生命周期的深入了解，以及支持池塘中微生物的实践。过去的渔猪管理考古投资有助于回答几个相关的基本面。问题：生态知识如何转化为修改自然环境的实践，这些实践如何支持不断增长的人群作为动态的政治经济学？这项研究将与当地社区合作进行，其中包括支持传统生态知识的传播以及为夏威夷学生进行的STEM培训的集体实地研究和实验室研究。研究团队将对微生物学和考古学的方法配对，以检查位于沿海Dunes and Wetlands Repuge内的Fishpond的沉积物。考古学家，微生物学家，古生物学家和当地社区志愿者的团队计划研究一千年的水产养殖生产序列。结合沉积物核心，考古发掘，鱼类的动物考古分析，放射性碳测年以及沉积物中微生物的遗传分析，该团队将对管理实践的成功顺序和分析，而管理实践的成功比鱼盆的历史。将将序列与一个理论模型进行比较，该模型可以预测精英管理的人类利基构建和入口点。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，通过评估被认为是珍贵的支持。