Seasonal climate change across the Roman Warm Period/Vandal Minimum transition using isotope sclerochronology in archaeological shells and otoliths, southwest Florida, USA

Wang, Ting; Surge, Donna; Walker, Karen

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“…Chemical and isotopic analyses of archaeological fish remains are increasingly used in palaeoenvironmental studies, drawing heavily on methods developed in modern fisheries science (e.g., Disspain et al 2011;Disspain et al 2012;Long et al 2014;Wang et al 2011Wang et al , 2013. Numerous researchers have examined how ambient environmental variables influence the chemistry of calcified structures, specifically otoliths because of their unique attributes (see Disspain et al 2016;Elsdon et al 2008), using such relations to interpret environmental histories of modern fish.…”

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“…Stable isotope analysis of fish remains is more widely used and validated than trace element analysis within palaeoenvironmental studies (Disspain et al 2016). Remains can be analysed for oxygen ( 18 O) and carbon ( 13 C) of the inorganic fraction (otolith aragonite and bone apatite) (Wang et al 2013;West et al 2012;Zazzo et al 2006). Nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon ( 13 C) stable isotopes from the organic fraction (fish scales and bone collagen) are frequently analysed (Barrett et al 2011;Robson et al 2012;Rowell et al 2010), with others such as sulphur (δ 34 S), being investigated for suitability as an environmental indicator (Privat et al 2007).…”

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Do fish remains provide reliable palaeoenvironmental records? An examination of the effects of cooking on the morphology and chemistry of fish otoliths, vertebrae and scales

Disspain

Ulm

Izzo

et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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M. (2016) Do fish remains provide reliable palaeoenvironmental records? An examination of the effects of cooking on the morphology and chemistry of fish otoliths, vertebrae and scales. M. (2016) Do fish remains provide reliable palaeoenvironmental records? An examination of the effects of cooking on the morphology and chemistry of fish otoliths, vertebrae and scales. AbstractThe morphological and chemical properties of fish calcified structures provide excellent environmental and anthropogenic proxies; however, pre-depositional handling may alter these properties, confounding interpretations. This study examines the effects of some traditional processing and cooking methods on the morphological and chemical properties of modern fish otoliths (ear bones), vertebrae, and scales using an experimental approach. Whole mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) were treated using a range of techniques, including boiled in freshwater and saltwater; roasted directly on a fire and wrapped in clay; salted; and completely burnt. Samples were also obtained from untreated fish as controls for comparison. Otoliths, vertebrae and scales from the samples were subjected to morphological, trace element ( 7 Li, 23 Na, 24 Mg, 55 Mn, 86 Sr, 138 Ba, 208 Pb, and 65 Zn all ratioed to 43 Ca) and stable isotope analyses (otoliths and vertebrae-inorganic δ 13 C and δ 18 O; scales-organic δ 13 C and δ 15 N). Results reveal disparities in the chemistry and morphology of otoliths and vertebrae processed in different ways. The otolith and vertebrae carbonate δ 18 O values were lower in samples that experienced heating; burnt samples differed significantly from the control samples. Otolith and vertebrae trace elements were largely unaffected by the treatments relative to the controls; however, some individual elements within the burning and salting groups varied significantly. The impacts observed in the fish scales were less substantial. Results provide a basis for evaluating the suitability of archaeological samples for analysis. We recommend avoiding the use of heated samples. Findings highlight the need to conduct palaeoenvironmental reconstructions based on chemistry and stable isotope data of archaeological remains with caution.

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Do fish remains provide reliable palaeoenvironmental records? An examination of the effects of cooking on the morphology and chemistry of fish otoliths, vertebrae and scales

Disspain

Ulm

Izzo

et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…For example, a number of climatic seasonality reconstructions based on bivalve sclerochronology and bivalve proxies have been reported in recent decades (Jones and Allmon, 1995;Andreasson and Schmitz, 1996;Bojar et al, 2004;Schöne et al, 2005b;Goewert and Surge, 2008;Schöne and Fiebig, 2009;Patterson et al, 2010;Wanamaker et al, 2011;Surge and Barrett, 2012;Wang et al, 2012Wang et al, , 2013. These high-resolution seasonal/monthly archives greatly help us in reconstructing the regional climate history and understanding the past climate dynamics.…”

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Seawater Temperature Seasonality in the South China Sea During the Late Holocene Derived From High-Resolution Sr/Ca Ratios of Tridacna Gigas

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Temperature seasonality, the difference between summer and winter temperature, has significant influences on global terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, most of proxy-based climate records are of limited temporal resolution and thus insufficient to quantify the past temperature seasonality. In this study, high-resolution Sr/Ca ratios of modern (live-caught) and fossil (dead-collected) Tridacna gigas shells from the South China Sea (SCS) were used to reconstruct the seawater temperature seasonality during the late Holocene. The averaged seawater temperature seasonality around 2165 ± 75 BC (4.46 ± 1.41°C, derived from the data of 18 yr) were similar to the seasonality of recent decade (4.41 ± 0.82°C during AD 1994-2005), but the temperature seasonality around AD 50 ± 40 (3.69 ± 1.37°C, derived from the data of 48 yr) and AD 990 ± 40 (3.64 ± 0.87°C, derived from the data of 11 yr) was significantly lower than that during AD 1994-2005. The reduced seasonality around AD 990 ± 40 was attributable to the unusually warm winter during the medieval times, probably caused by the weakening of East Asian Winter Monsoon. Our study highlighted the potential of T. gigas shells in providing high-resolution seasonality climate information during the late Holocene.

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“…38–41). Multiple lines of evidence, including faunal analyses (Quitmyer et al ., ; Wang et al ., ), suggest that the habitation represented by Surf Clam Ridge's small circular house patterns occurred ca. AD 450–500 during a warm sea‐level peak and that the ca.…”

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A Remote Sensing Perspective on Shoreline Modification, Canal Construction and Household Trajectories at Pineland along Florida's Southwestern Gulf Coast

Thompson

Marquardt

Walker

2014

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In 2011, we initiated a geophysical survey of the Pineland Site Complex. The complex is comprised of two imposing residential midden-mound groups, two sand burial mounds and several linear (and other) middens along previous shorelines, and a canal system that not only integrated features within the site complex, but also served to connect it to the interior of Pine Island and beyond. For 25 years, archaeologists associated with the Florida Museum of Natural History have conducted extensive investigations at the Complex, clarifying the site's intertwined environmental and human histories. Our research presented here provides additional data to confirm some of the hypotheses generated by this previous research. The geophysical results support previous ideas regarding formation and occupation of former shorelines by Pineland's early fisher-gatherer-hunters. Second, they provide better definition of a small, later-period secondary canal, a component of the canal system. Most notably, the geophysical survey provides a basis for studying changes in household composition over time via the identification of house patterns in the resulting imaged data. We provide some speculations regarding this shift in residence patterns, suggesting that alterations may have been coeval with environmental changes. These changes may have set the stage for subsequent large-scale cooperative labour projects, such as Pineland's waterways. Figure 2. Hypothesized Pineland Site Complex topographic reconstruction based on modern topographic maps, historic sketch maps, written descriptions, oral histories and archaeological investigations (adapted from Marquardt and Walker, 2013, figure 17).

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Seasonal climate change across the Roman Warm Period/Vandal Minimum transition using isotope sclerochronology in archaeological shells and otoliths, southwest Florida, USA

Cited by 57 publications

References 37 publications

Do fish remains provide reliable palaeoenvironmental records? An examination of the effects of cooking on the morphology and chemistry of fish otoliths, vertebrae and scales

Do fish remains provide reliable palaeoenvironmental records? An examination of the effects of cooking on the morphology and chemistry of fish otoliths, vertebrae and scales

Seawater Temperature Seasonality in the South China Sea During the Late Holocene Derived From High-Resolution Sr/Ca Ratios of Tridacna Gigas

A Remote Sensing Perspective on Shoreline Modification, Canal Construction and Household Trajectories at Pineland along Florida's Southwestern Gulf Coast

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