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由史語所臺灣與東南亞考古學研究室及法國遠東學院臺北中心主辦

主講人：

余琲琳 教授（副教授，傅爾布萊特高級研究員樹城州立大學人類學系）

講題：
Can Human Behavioral Ecology Models Contribute toUnderstanding the Neolithization of Taiwan?

日期：
二〇二三年三月十四日（二）下午二時半

地點：
中央研究院歷史語言研究所研究大樓二樓會議室

摘要：
The
Neolithization of Taiwan involved adaptive responses of immigrating
cultivators and territory-holding hunter gatherers, as well as
subsequent adjustments to subsistence and settlement on both sides. The
Two Layer Model describes Taiwan hunter-gatherers as marginalized and
then completely displaced within a few centuries. This has been advanced
on the basis of the lack of archaeological and bioarchaeological
evidence for persistence. Yet ethnographic information about
farmer/hunter-gatherer interactions, as well as the archaeological
record of Southeast China, suggest that the process may have been more
complex and gradual, with variations arising in different habitats. This
opens an opportunity to consider evolutionary theory. Human behavioral
ecology (HBE) aims to predict decision-making by individuals who seek to
maximize the ratio of energy capture to energy output (as a proxy to
reproductive success). HBE models are increasingly used by
archaeologists as heuristic tools to derive working hypotheses regarding
past behaviors that relate to the origins of food production,
migrations, inter-cultural encounters, and more. This paper evaluates
the strengths and limitations of the 'Ideal Free Distribution' and 'the
Despotic Variant’ of populations movements in varied landscapes for
archaeological hypothesis building about hunter gatherer/cultivator
encounters during the early Neolithic. I conclude with considerations of
the role of Taiwan's unique physiographic characteristics in the
process.


此演講由中央研究院歷史語言研究所助研究員陳珮瑜博士、法國遠東學院臺北中心梅豪方副教授主持。
此為英文演講。自由入座，無須報名。




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