2015
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-015-0228-5
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Sclerochronological analysis of archaeological mollusc assemblages: methods, applications and future prospects

Abstract: Accreting skeletal tissues found in bone, teeth, otoliths and molluscan shell act as sensitive recorders of local environmental and climatic conditions. Owing to their robust nature, ubiquity and abundance in the archaeological record as well as the potential for high-resolution data acquisition, the accreting skeletal tissues of archaeological molluscs are increasingly employed as palaeoenvironmental proxies. Researchers have chiefly utilised such proxies to extend instrumental records of environmental condit… Show more

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“…It is also intriguing that the ethnohistorical data reported here indicates a consistent preference for use of this locality during the early wet season, and this may be suggestive of an earlier pre-colonial preference of using this region at this time of year. Obtaining independent data on the season of site use is necessary to test this hypothesis, and relatively new approaches to sclerochronology (Twaddle et al 2016) provide important opportunities for furthering our understanding of the seasonality of site use, and the wider role of mound sites within regional settlement patterns and economies.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is also intriguing that the ethnohistorical data reported here indicates a consistent preference for use of this locality during the early wet season, and this may be suggestive of an earlier pre-colonial preference of using this region at this time of year. Obtaining independent data on the season of site use is necessary to test this hypothesis, and relatively new approaches to sclerochronology (Twaddle et al 2016) provide important opportunities for furthering our understanding of the seasonality of site use, and the wider role of mound sites within regional settlement patterns and economies.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, δ 18 O water covaries with salinity in coastal estuaries [28,29]. For these reasons, δ 18 O carbonate values in shell can be used to not only trace local environmental changes in the past, but also to explore Native American shellfish harvesting practices, such as season of collection and the range of habitats used for collection [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Here, we specifically use δ 18 O carbonate values to retrodict the salinity of the habitats where people harvested shell.…”
Section: Oyster Geochemistry: Oxygen (δ 18 O] Isotope Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Whilst studies undertaken on the European oyster have a long research history (Orton 1928;Walne 1958;Grant et al 1990), the application of incremental growth-line analysis has only been relatively recently employed on archaeological materials (Milner 2001(Milner , 2002(Milner , 2005Bailey and Milner 2008;Milner and Laurie 2009;Robson 2015). In this context, incremental growth-line analysis and -now more commonly -oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) analysis have largely focussed on determining the season and age-of-death of individual specimens, a common method in archaeology to explore prehistoric consumption patterns, site seasonality, including mobility patterns, and ritual behaviours (Mannino et al 2003;Blitz et al 2014;Prendergast and Stevens 2014;Hausmann and Meredith-Williams 2017a;West et al 2018; see also Twaddle et al 2016;Burchell et al 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%