Refining Estimates for the season of shellfish collection on the pacific northwest coast: Applying high-resolution stable oxygen isotope analysis and sclerochronology

Archaeometry

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 258-276

  Burchell, M ^a   Cannon, A ^a   Hallmann, N ^b   Schwarcz, H P ^a   Schone B R ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; HOLOCENE; SAXIDOMUS GIGANTEA; SCLEROCHRONOLOGY; SEASONALITY; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBONATE; CHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEASONALITY; SHELLFISH; STABLE ISOTOPE; ZOOLOGY;

BELGIUM; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NAMUR [BELGIUM];

BIVALVIA; SAXIDOMUS GIGANTEA;

EID: 84873749089     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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