Evaluating Contemporaneity and Post‐mortem Age of Malacological Remains Using Sclerochronology and Dendrochronology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8352407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuli Helama (0000-0002-9777-3354), Jesper Kresten Nielsen (0000-0001-7304-7262), Ilmari Valovirta |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 861-877 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeometry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-813X • E-ISSN: 1475-4754 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00435.x |
| OpenAlex | W2170532042 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
Sclerochronology and dendrochronology are based on series of incremental skeletal and cambial growths that have been correctly aligned in time via cross‐dating (i.e., incremental dating through synchronization of the growth variability on a visual and statistical basis). Here we report a study of the shell increments of two anthropogenic death assemblages of freshwater pearl mussel ( Margaritifera margaritifera ) originating from Finnish Lapland. First, we cross‐dated a new sclerochronology from an assemblage of river pearl mussel shells with unknown post‐mortem age. Second, this chronology was cross‐dated with the previously published sclerochronology of the same species and geographical source. Third, the composite of the two sclerochronologies was compared to dendrochronologies from Lapland. Temporal association of the two types of chronologies was markedly high, as confirmed by t ‐values of 7.1 and 8.9, which are well above the acceptable limit of 3.5. Our study demonstrates the potential of sclerochronological and dendrochronological materials and techniques in assessing the contemporaneity (i.e., temporal overlap) and post‐mortem age of archaeomalacological deposits. In the palaeontological context, these results also show the wider possibility of dating shells with a large number of annual increments from natural deposits
Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology) · Biology · Chronology · Context (archaeology) · Dendrochronology · Geography · Margaritifera · Mussel · Pearl · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Tree-ring climate responses
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |