Archaeological and contemporary evidence indicates low sea otter prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast during the Late Holocene

E Slade, I McKechnie, AK Salomon - Ecosystems, 2022 - Springer
The historic extirpation and subsequent recovery of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have
profoundly changed coastal social-ecological systems across the northeastern Pacific …

A current assessment and commentary on the field of shell seasonality

N Hausmann - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2024 - Springer
This review aims to summarise the outcomes, methods, and ideas of shellfish seasonality
studies of the last 50 years. With the start of using mollusc shells as indicator of seasonal …

Interpreting life-history traits, seasonal cycles, and coastal climate from an intertidal mussel species: Insights from 9000 years of synthesized stable isotope data

VP Vriesman, JR Bean, HM Palmer, RMW Banker - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding past coastal variability is valuable for contextualizing modern changes in
coastal settings, yet existing Holocene paleoceanographic records for the North American …

Using multiple linear regression for estimating total mussel (Mytilus californianus) shell size to accommodate morphological variability related to diverse environments

JD McFarland, AN Sbei, CS Jazwa, KE Stull - Journal of Archaeological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding variation in mollusk shell size through time can be useful for interpreting
changes in past marine environments and human behavior related to subsistence. Recent …

Variations of the stable isotope ratios of carbon and oxygen of the Patella vulgata (Linnæus, 1758) shells according to the vertical zonation of collect

JF Cudennec, YM Paulet - Geo-Marine Letters, 2022 - Springer
Isotopic investigations performed on carbonated shells from anthropogenic middens provide
information about past environments and cultural practices of the human populations who …

Late Holocene Size Variation of Mytilus californianus Remains from Shelter Cove (CA-HUM-182), Northern California

HT Kievman, KM Wilson, RLF Lamson… - California …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Here we evaluate variation in Mytilus californianus size from CA-HUM-182, comparing
patterns with those from Punta Gorda Rock Shelter that suggested sustainable resource …

Estimating the Seasonality of Bent-Nose Clam (Macoma nasuta) Harvesting at a 3,000-Year-Old Ancestral Ohlone Site (CA-ALA-11) on the San Francisco Bay

MO Barron, JW Eerkens, CM Darwent… - California …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates the harvest month for bent-nose clams (Macoma nasuta) at CA-ALA-
11, an estuarine site in the modern-day city of Alameda along the San Francisco Bay. The …

Trace the Origin of Cotton Fibres in Main Cotton-Exporting Countries Based on Stable Isotope with Multivariate Statistics

W Xia, M Wang, W Jiang, X He, L Zheng… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Stable isotope ratio analysis of cotton fibre is of great significance for its environmental
detection and origin traceability. In this study, the δ13C, δ2H and δ18O of cotton fibres from …