Antarctic sea ice proxies from marine and ice core archives suitable for reconstructing sea ice over the past 2000 years

ER Thomas, CS Allen, J Etourneau, ACF King… - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Dramatic changes in sea ice have been observed in both poles in recent decades. However,
the observational period for sea ice is short, and the climate models tasked with predicting …

Extreme solar storms and the quest for exact dating with radiocarbon

TJ Heaton, E Bard, A Bayliss, M Blaauw… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Radiocarbon (14C) is essential for creating chronologies to study the timings and drivers of
pivotal events in human history and the Earth system over the past 55,000 years. It is also a …

Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

SM Kidwell - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
With overwhelming evidence of change in habitats, biologists today must assume that few, if
any, study areas are natural and that biological variability is superimposed on trends rather …

[HTML][HTML] Origin and health status of first-generation Africans from early colonial Mexico

R Barquera, TC Lamnidis, AK Lankapalli, A Kocher… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The forced relocation of several thousand Africans during Mexico's historic period has so far
been documented mostly through archival sources, which provide only sparse detail on their …

[图书][B] Namib: The archaeology of an African desert

J Kinahan - 2022 - books.google.com
This is a story of human survival over the last one million years in the Namib Desert-one of
the most hostile environments on Earth. Namib reveals the resilience and ingenuity of desert …

Accuracy vs. precision: understanding potential errors from radiocarbon dating on African landscapes

DK Wright - African Archaeological Review, 2017 - Springer
The application of radiocarbon dating to determine the geochronology of archaeological
sites is ubiquitous across the African continent. Accelerator mass spectrometry has made …

Radiocarbon chronology of sediments with implications for climatic events in Lop Nur, NW China

Y Chui, W Zhou, P Cheng, L Yang, X Liu, J Lan… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Radiocarbon dating has played a pivotal role in paleoclimate research, particularly in
establishing chronological sequences for lake sediment. However, the persistent challenge …

Radiocarbon reservoir corrections on the Brazilian coast from pre-bomb marine shells

E Alves, K Macario, R Souza, A Pimenta… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite the great extent of the Brazilian coast, there are very few studies on the marine
radiocarbon reservoir correction local offset (ΔR) for this region. In the present study, we …

Zooming out from archaeological discontinuities: The meaning of mid-Holocene temporal troughs in South American deserts

R Barberena, C Méndez, ME de Porras - Journal of Anthropological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Building on previous research at smaller scales, in this paper we assemble paleoecological
data and archaeological time-series for deserts located in three latitudinal bands along the …

Radiocarbon dates as estimates of ancient human population size

MA Chaput, K Gajewski - Anthropocene, 2016 - Elsevier
Archaeological radiocarbon (14 C) dates are a fundamental source of information
documenting patterns in paleodemographic change from prehistoric to modern times …