Historical diversity of cormorants and shags from Amchitka Island, Alaska

• Main Authors: Siegel-Causey, Douglas, Lefevre, Christine, SAVINETSKY, ARKADY
• Other Authors: Archéozoologie, histoire des sociétés et des peuplements animaux (AHS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1991
• Subjects: midden site: zooarcheology; Phalacrocoracidae; cormorants; shags; Holocene; biodiversity: Aleutian Islands; envir; archeo; Amchitka; Amchitka Island; Arctic; Kenyon; aleut; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02099291/file/Siegel-Causey%20et%20al%201991%20Historical%20diversity%20of%20cormorants%20and%20shags%20from%20Amchitka%20Island,%20Alaska%20-%20Condor.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02099291

International audience We studied the historical biodiversity of cormorants and shags in the central Aleutians by examining the presence and abundance of bones deposited in two large Aleut middens located on Amchitka Island, Alaska. The temporal range of discrete strata in these deposits was from Ru...