Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print will feature work that does not fit comfortably within established boundaries-whether between periods or between disciplines. Uniquely, it will combine efforts to engage the power and materiality of print with explorations of gender, race, and class. By attending as well to intersections of literature with the visual arts, medicine, law, and science, the series will enable a large-scale rethinking of the origins of modernity.
<p>In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using archaeological marine mollusc shells as a paleoclimate archive by virtue of their ability to preserve high-resolution paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental information in multiple biogeochemical proxies. Moreover, valuable information about past environments, human-environmental interactions, and seasonal foraging practices can be obtained via the analysis of marine gastropods from archaeological sites. <em>Rochia nilotica </em>is the most common shell in coral reef ecosystems across the Indo-Pacific Ocean and archaeological shell middens in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR); however, its application as a paleoclimate and paleoenvironment archive to reconstruct the Mid-to-Late Holocene ENSO (El Ni&#241;o-Southern Oscillation) has not yet been investigated. In this study, we compare temporally successive oxygen isotope and trace element records (&#948;<sup>18</sup>O, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Ba/Ca) in modern <em>R. nilotica</em> shells with instrumental environmental records to test whether we can quantitively reconstruct past environmental parameters. Preliminary results show that modern <em>R. nilotica </em>reliably records environmental factors (e.g. sea surface temperature and salinity) in equilibrium with the surrounding environment at a seasonal scale. These proxies will ultimately be applied to reconstruct localised Mid-to-Late Holocene ENSO records at sub-seasonal scales in the Great Barrier Reef. Results obtained from this ongoing research can be used to compare with climate model simulations to provide a more robust reconstruction of paleo ENSO behavior and offers an opportunity to decipher the long-term shellfish management strategies of Indigenous peoples in the GBR environment to provide a baseline for future marine resource management in the GBR.</p>
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