Red Sea palaeoclimate: stable isotope and element-ratio analysis of marine mollusc shells
Hausmann, Niklas; Kokkinaki, Olga; Leng, Melanie J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1115-5166. 2019 Red Sea palaeoclimate: stable isotope and element-ratio analysis of marine mollusc shells. In: Najeeb, M.A.R.; Stewart, Ian C.F., (eds.) Geological setting, palaeoenvironment and archaeology of the Red Sea. Springer, 725-740.
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Abstract/Summary
The southern Red Sea coast is the location of more than 4,200 archaeological shell midden sites. These shell middens preserve archaeological and climatic archives of unprecedented resolution and scale. By using shells from these contexts, it is possible to link past environmental information with episodes of human occupation and resource processing. This chapter summarises current knowledge about the marine gastropod Conomurex fasciatus (Born 1778) and discusses its use in environmental and climatic reconstruction using stable isotope and elemental ratio analysis. It offers a review of the most recent studies of shell midden sites on the Farasan Islands, their regional importance during the mid-Holocene, theories about seasonal use of the coastal landscape, and preliminary results from new methods to acquire large climatic datasets from C. fasciatus shells.
Item Type: | Publication - Book Section |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99408-6_33 |
ISBN: | 9783319994079 |
Date made live: | 12 Dec 2018 09:44 +0 (UTC) |
URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521853 |
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