Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| 项目编号 | 9908663 |
| Collaborative Proposal: Impacts of El Nino Flooding on Sociopolitical Organization in the Moche Valley, Peru | |
| Gary Huckleberry | |
| 主持机构 | Washington State University |
| 开始日期 | 1999-06-01 |
| 结束日期 | 2001-05-31 |
| 资助经费 | 59263(USD) |
| 项目类别 | Standard Grant |
| 资助机构 | US-NSF（美国国家科学基金会） |
| 项目所属计划 | ARCHAEOLOGY |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | 美国 |
| 英文简介 | With National Science Foundation supports Drs. Brian Billman and Gary Huckleberry will conduct two seasons of geological fieldwork in the Moche Valley in coastal Northern Peru. A regional manifestation of the warm phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation, El Nino (EN) affects climate over a broad part of the globe. In Northern costal Peru, strong EN events result in massive fish die-offs and catastophic floods in an otherwise hyperarid desert. It has been proposed that strong EN events in the past stressed prehistoric agricultural and maritime societies in the region and was thus a catalyst for cultural change, including changes in social organization. The exact nature of this relationship is debated in part because a solid chronology of prehistoric EN events that could be correlated to prehistoric cultural events does not exist. In 1997 a geoarchaeological reconnaisance of the middle Moche Valley resulted in the discovery of a 100+ meter long streamcut at the mouth of Quebrada de los Chinos. The 4 meter high exposure contains at least 11 discrete flood deposits intercalated with organic soils and cultural materials. This provides an opportunity to date at least 11 strong prehistoric events and to correlate these to the cultural chronology fo the Valley. Drs. Billman and Huckleberry will document and date the stratigraphy. This will include profiling, photography, and laboratory analysis of the sediments to accurately identify and discriminate depositional and pedogenetic processes. Age control will be provided by temporally diagnostic ceramics and radiocarbon dated charcoal. The objective is to construct an approximately 2,500 year proxy record. On this basis it will be possible to test the synchronicity between EN events and cultural change and to analyze the latitudinal variability of prehistoric EN flooding in coastal Peru by comparing the Quebrada de los Chinos stratigraphy with other paleoflood and archaeological sites. This research will be relevant to both paleoclimatologists and archaeologists and increase our understanding of how cultural development is affected by severe environmental perturbation. It will shed new light in the processes which lead to the rise, and decline, of complex societies. |
| 来源学科分类 | Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
| URL | https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9908663 |
| 资源类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/343256 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gary Huckleberry.Collaborative Proposal: Impacts of El Nino Flooding on Sociopolitical Organization in the Moche Valley, Peru.1999. |
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