Publication of Danai’s PhD thesis
We are delighted to announce the publication of SEAFRONT project member Danai Theodoraki’s doctoral thesis, High-Resolution Climatic Changes at Early Neolithic Franchthi, now available in the LEIZA Publications series and Propylaeum Open Access.
LIBS on Mussels from Santa Rosa Island
Alexandria Marie Firenzi is a doctoral researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR; Reno, Nevada, USA). Her work focuses on reconstructing past sea-surface temperature and salinity variability along the northeastern Pacific coast of North America, with particular attention to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and coastal current dynamics within the Southern California Bight. She visited our lab and is keen to share some data!
Year-round prehistoric limpet exploitation at the Haua Fteah
Our new paper provides high-resolution data into the seasonality of prehistoric shellfish exploitation at the Haua Fteah (northern Cyrenaica, Libya). The research applies laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to analyse Mg/Ca ratios in Patella caerulea Linnaeus 1758 shells recovered from the Haua Fteah by past human populations.
