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, Cretu, Denisa, Elias, Scott
• Other Authors: De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve St. John's, Canada (MUN), Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), Institute of Arctic Alpine Research University of Colorado Boulder (INSTAAR), University of Colorado Boulder, 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 awarded to Dr. Véronique Forbes, and two NERC Radiocarbon Facility grants (NF/2015/1/6 and NF/2015/2/3) awarded to Drs. Rick Knecht and Paul Ledger., European Project: 703322,H2020,H2020-MSCA-IF-2015,WARFLY(2016)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: Little ice age; Alaska; Yup'ik; Mutual climatic range; Palaeoclimate; Coleoptera; [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology; The ''Y''; Yukon; Kuskokwim
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02280483; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02280483/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02280483/file/1-s2.0-S1040618219301089-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.07.011

International audience There is myriad evidence that global warming is exerting a profoundly disruptive influence on the lifeways of modern native (Yup'ik) communities living in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) delta of southwestern Alaska. Yup'ik subsistence is intimately tied to seasonal change...