Estimating age of rock cairns in southeast Alaska by combining evidence from successional metrics, lichenometry, and carbon dating

• Main Authors: McCune,, Bruce, Ali,, Nijmah, Hartley, Ralph J, Hunt, William J, Jr.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2017
• Subjects: Alaskan native culture; alpine; bryophytes; lichens; plant succession; vegetation; Anthropology; Archaeological Anthropology; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Cairn; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthropologyfacpub/198; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/anthropologyfacpub/article/1203/viewcontent/McCuneArcticSci2017Estimating.pdf

We estimated ages of rock cairns in alpine tundra in southeast Alaska by combining information from three general classes of methods, each of them imperfect, but considered together providing better estimates than any of the three alone. We used lichenometry, radiocarbon dating, and five successiona...