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Seasonality of Mollusk Collecting Determined from O-18 Profiles of Midden Shells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John S. Killingley
John S. Killingley*
Affiliation:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolia, CA 92093
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Abstract

Midden shell carbonate O-18 profiles are used to estimate the month of shellfish collection. Fourteen molluscan shells from a coastal midden in Baja California were analyzed to demonstrate the potential of the technique for reconstructing settlement patterns. Ancillary information on paleotemperatures is also recovered from the O-18 values.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 152 - 158
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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