A sub-centennial, Little Ice Age climate reconstruction using beetle subfossil data from Nunalleq, southwestern Alaska

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Forbes, Véronique, Ledger, Paul M., Cretu, Denisa, Elias, Scott
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Archaeology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: SDG 13 - Climate Action; Palaeoclimate; Coleoptera; Mutual climatic range; Little ice age; Alaska; Yup'Ik; REVISION; STAPHYLINIDAE; LAKE; YUKON-KUSKOKWIM DELTA; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; TACHINUS GRAVENHORST COLEOPTERA; NORTH; LATE PLEISTOCENE; AMERICAN OMALIINAE COLEOPTERA; PYCNOGLYPTA THOMSON; CC Archaeology; Earth-Surface Processes; Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC); AH/K006029/1; European Commission; Horizon 2020; Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant; No 703322; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); NF/2015/1/6; NF/2015/2/3; Supplementary Data; CC; Kuskokwim; Yup'ik; Yukon
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/14668; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.07.011; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068574530&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.mendeley.com/research/subcentennial-little-ice-age-climate-reconstruction-using-beetle-subfossil-data-nunalleq-southwester; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618219301089

This research was funded through an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant (AH/K006029/1) awarded to Drs. Rick Knecht, Charlotta Hillerdal and Kate Britton, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 703322, and two NERC Radiocarbon Facility grants (NF/2015/1/6 and NF/2015/2/3) awarded to Drs. Rick Knecht and Paul Ledger. Our work at Nunalleq also benefitted from the support of the local community who made us all feel at home in Quinhagak and provided consistently warm hospitality. Logistical support from Warren Jones and Qanirtuuq Incorporated was also invaluable. VF would like to thank Anthony Davies for his invaluable help with the identification of Stenus species and for verifying her identification of other staphylinid taxa. Patrice Bouchard, Yves Bousquet, Henri Goulet and Aleš Smetana are also thanked for help provided with beetle identifications, as well as Professor Ian Foster, for kindly providing Pb210 dating support. Finally, we would like to thank Peter Jordan for the opportunity to publish in this special issue, as well as Philippe Ponel and an anonymous reviewer, whose comments helped us improve the original manuscript. Peer reviewed