Clams and climate: implications for measuring seasonality in the marine bivalve, saxidomus gigantea

• Main Authors: Bassett, Christine Nicole, Andrus, C. Fred T., West, Catherine F., Tobin, Thomas, Therrell, Matthew D., University of Alabama. Dept. of Geological Sciences
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation; > thesis; Paleoclimate science; Biological oceanography; Archaeology; butter clams; Gulf of Alaska; paleoclimate; Saxidomus gigantea; sclerochronology; Alabama; Rice Ridge; Archipelago; Kodiak; Uyak; Alaska
• Online Access: http://purl.lib.ua.edu/163862

Sclerochronological and sclerochemical analysis of shellfish remains from archaeological sites afford the opportunity to understand environmental change and its impacts on human populations through time. During the Late Holocene in the Gulf of Alaska, the paleoenvironmental record reflects fluctuati...