EHSCAN-Exploring Early Holocene Saharan Cultural Adaptation and social Networks through socio-ecological inferential modelling.

EHSCAN-通过社会生态推理模型探索全新世早期撒哈拉文化适应和社交网络。

• 批准号: EP/Y028430/1
• 负责人: Enrico Crema
• 金额: $ 23.84万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY028430%2F1
• 关键词: EHSCAN; Exploring; Early; Holocene; Saharan; EHSCAN; Exploring; Early; Holocene; Saharan

Early Holocene (EH) hunter-gatherer-fisher communities in North Africa and the Sahara from ca. 10.5 kya display very similar material cultural and socioeconomic patterning over a vast geographical and temporal range. Explained generally as the outcome of a rapid demic expansion, the actual dynamics of spread, the underlying cultural processes of transmission, contacts and networks which prompted and sustained the material cultural homogeneity in EH North Africa are still poorly understood, as are whether and why different groups maintained similar cultural traits after a putative initial dispersal process. EHSCAN aims to determine whether this long-term persistence was due to slow rates of cultural change or rather related to higher levels of inter-group connectivity, assuming the presence of an active large-scale network of interactions. To tackle these issues, it proposes to develop a statistical and spatial approach combining a generative inference framework and geostatistical analyses to establish and explore the processes that led to differences or similarities between North African archaeological cultures as well as the micro-scale processes responsible for cultural transmission within those. Via a multi-proxy approach by the systematic combination and analysis of independently acquired datasets and the application of approximate Bayesian computation it will compare and analyse material culture assemblages pertaining to the wider Sahara to observe spatial and temporal dynamics of the diffusion of specific cultural traits. Based on two main archaeological proxies, pottery, and radiocarbon dates, it will test the influence of different factors in those processes and define new models and paradigms for the EH settlement history in North Africa. It will broaden the conceptual and interpretative framework of Saharan prehistory and offer through its outputs new datasets and tools to African archaeological research.

北非的早期全新世（EH）猎人 - 采集者社区和CA的撒哈拉沙漠。 10.5 KYA在广阔的地理和时间范围内显示出非常相似的物质文化和社会经济图案。一般来说，作为快速发展的迅速扩张的结果，传播的实际动态，传播，接触和网络的潜在文化过程，促使和维持北非EH的物质文化同质性的促进和维持，而在假定的初始分散过程之后，不同的群体是否仍被认为以及为什么不同的群体保持相似的文化特征。 EHSCAN旨在确定这种长期持久性是否是由于存在主动大型相互作用网络的文化变化速度缓慢还是与较高水平的组间连通性有关。为了解决这些问题，它建议开发一种统计和空间方法，结合了生成的推理框架和地统计学分析，以建立和探索导致北非考古文化的差异或相似性以及负责在这些过程中的文化传播的微观过程之间的差异或相似性。通过对独立获取数据集的系统组合和分析的多种方法的方法，以及近似贝叶斯计算的应用，它将比较和分析与更广泛的撒哈拉有关的材料培养组合，以观察特定文化特征扩散的空间和时间动态。基于两个主要的考古代理，陶器和放射性碳日期，它将测试不同因素在这些过程中的影响，并为北非EH定居历史定义新模型和范式。它将扩大撒哈拉语史前史的概念和解释框架，并通过其输出为非洲考古研究提供新的数据集和工具。