Globally, glaciers and icefields contribute significantly to sea level rise. Here we show that
ice loss from Juneau Icefield, a plateau icefield in Alaska, accelerated after 2005 AD. Rates …

Glacial and interglacial periods throughout the Pleistocene have been substantial drivers of
change in species distributions. Earlier analyses suggested that modern grey wolves (Canis …

This article explores uses of peat bogs and associated plants and other resources by
drawing on the published ethnobotanical and archeological literature pertaining to …

Two large volcanic eruptions contributed to extreme cold temperatures during the early
1800s, one of the coldest phases of the Little Ice Age. While impacts from the massive 1815 …

Abstract Modern Arctic Indigenous peoples face many interconnected pressures, not the
least of which is anthropogenic climate change, which is emerging as one of the most …

The reconstruction of diet, subsistence strategies and human-animal relationships are
integral to understanding past human societies, adaptations and resilience-especially in the …

Centred on the underresearched precontact archaeology of southwest coastal Alaska, the
Nunalleq project is a decade-long collaboration between the Yup'ik village of Quinhagak …

Aim Arctic plants survived the Pleistocene glaciations in unglaciated refugia. The number,
ages, and locations of these refugia are often unclear. We use high‐resolution genomic data …

Bulk sediment samples can contribute high-resolution subsistence and paleoenvironmental
data from archaeological sites excavated before the adoption of modern zooarchaeological …

Insects collected from human remains are an important source of information about the peri-
and postmortem events and they are the object of attention of two disciplines. Forensic …