Year-round prehistoric limpet exploitation at the Haua Fteah | SeaFront Our new paper provides high-resolution data into the seasonality of prehistoric shellfish exploitation at the Haua Fteah (northern Cyrenaica, Libya). The research applies laser-induced breakdown spect...

Quick new paper out on the seasonal use of the Haua Fteah Cave during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. 🏺

Lot of shells with high-res relative temperature records. 140 of them!
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New paper in Quaternary Science Reviews on the seasonality of shellgathering and its role in the palaeoeconomies of Cantabrian Mesolithic sites over 4,730 years

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Limpets and Mussels from Tierra del Fuego | SeaFront Alejandro León Cristóbal is a doctoral researcher from the University of La Rioja (Spain). He does research in marine mollusc shells, ethnoarchaeology, oxygen isotope analysis, Palaeolithic Archaeolog...

We've been extremely lucky to open a new research avenue in #TierradelFuego with our guest researcher Alejandro León Cristóbal who looked at getting fast climate and seasonality data in limpets and now also ❗️mussels❗️
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New paper in Applied Sciences: an interdisciplinary study developing new spectroscopic methodological approaches with a focus on archaeology and palaeoclimatology ⬇️

Structural pattern analysis in Patella vulgata shells using Raman imaging.

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New paper in Microchemical Journal. An interdisciplinary research led by Jesús Mirapeix and Adolfo Cobo ⬇️

A comparative analysis of elemental imaging of marine mollusc shells using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

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Hello, thanks for your interest! The photos show the process of preparing archaeological shells for elemental and isotopic analysis, through which we obtain palaeoclimatic information. For further details, you can visit our project’s website 🙂: seafront-project.com

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Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications Oysters inhabit a variety of coastal and deep-sea settings over a wide latitudinal range and have a role as ecosystem engineers. They also represent an important food source for humans since hunter-g...

Anything you want to know about studying past and present #Oysters
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