Nancy Bigelow
Biographic Data
| ID | 2930854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Bigelow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Bigelow |
| SIGNATURE | BIGELOW N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5020-5002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing Coastal Wetland Carbon and Mineral Accumulation Response to Changing Climate, Cape Espenberg, Alaska
The Arctic is experiencing warming and ecological shifts due to climate change and the compounding effects of polar amplification. Arctic Alaskan coastal marsh environments, such as the Cape Espenberg barrier beach system, offer an opportunity to determine the carbon cycle response to changing climate by examining sediment records that have been preserved through time as shoreline-parallel, linear geometry prograding geomorphic features. This stu…
Formation processes of archaeobotanical assemblages of an early Thule Iñupiaq dwelling at Cape Espenberg, northwest Alaska
Arctic. • Archaeobotany. • Formation process. • Inuit. • Plant use. Archaeobotany remains an underdeveloped discipline in the Arctic, with comparatively little known about the processes involved in the formation of plant assemblages in ancestral Inuit sites. Archaeobotanical records from seasonal forager sites at high latitudes present several peculiarities: 1) excellent preservation; 2) lack of domesticated species prior to contact with European…
Revisiting the Timing of the Northern Lobe of the White River Ash Volcanic Event in Eastern Alaska and Western Yukon
The northern lobe of the White River Ash (WRAn) is part of a bilobate distribution of tephras that originated from the Wrangell Volcanic Field near the border of Alaska, USA, and Yukon, Canada. It is distributed across northeastern Alaska and the northwestern portion of the Yukon. The timing of this eruption has seen little critical analysis relative to the younger and more extensive eastern lobe eruption of the White River Ash. We compiled 38 ra…
Beringia and the global dispersal of modern humans
Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native Americans were thought to represent a small subset of the Eurasian population that migrated to the Western Hemisphere less than 15,000 years ago. Archeological discoveries since 2000 reveal, however, that Homo sapiens occupied the high‐latitude region between Northeast…
Archéologie du Cap Espenberg où la question du Birnirk et de l’origine du Thulé dans le nord-ouest de l’Alaska
Le cap Espenberg est une flèche littorale au large de la mer des Tchouktches dans le nord-ouest de l’Alaska contenant les vestiges de 4000 ans d’occupations humaines et de changements climatiques. Les recherches archéologiques et paléo-environnementales, menées depuis 2009 dans le cadre d’un projet pluridisciplinaire, apportent des informations nouvelles sur la chronologie des occupations du dernier millénaire et documentent l’émergence de la cul…
Tundra and boreal forest of interior Alaska during terminal MIS 6 and MIS 5e
The Crucible of Early to Mid-Holocene Climate in Northern Alaska
The Archaic stage was defined as a cultural response to post-Pleistocene landscapes dominated by trees. The Early Holocene produced an open landscape susceptible to colluviation, flooding, and gullying thus placing severe constraints on archaeological site preservation. The paleo-environment surrounding the development of the Northern Archaic can be reconstructed from pan-Alaska proxy records of flooding, loess fall, and soil formation at Onion P…
Holocene forest development along the Setesdal valley, southern Norway, reconstructed from macrofossil and pollen evidence
Two Early Sites of Eastern Beringia
Between the Alaska Range to the south and the Brooks Range to the north, the Yukon River and its tributaries form an extensive network of waterways leading through the lowlands of interior Alaska deep into the North American continent (Fig 1). Despite the extremely cold winters of this arctic and subarctic landscape, much of the region remained unglaciated during the last 50,000 years. The central Alaskan lowlands are at the west end of the “ice-…
Latest Pleistocene Increase in Wind Intensity Recorded in Eolian Sediments from Central Alaska
A brief increase in wind intensity between ca. 11,100 and 10,700 yr B.P. is recorded by a sharp increase in sediment grain size at eolian sections along the Nenana River in central Alaska. This occurred at the same time as the Younger Dryas climatic reversal in northern Europe and an increase in the vigor of atmospheric circulation recorded by Greenland ice cores. Climatic fluctuations in high latitude areas during Younger Dryas time may reflect …
Holocene forest development along the Setesdal valley, southern Norway, reconstructed from macrofossil and pollen evidence
The Crucible of Early to Mid-Holocene Climate in Northern Alaska
The Archaic stage was defined as a cultural response to post-Pleistocene landscapes dominated by trees. The Early Holocene produced an open landscape susceptible to colluviation, flooding, and gullying thus placing severe constraints on archaeological site preservation. The paleo-environment surrounding the development of the Northern Archaic can be reconstructed from pan-Alaska proxy records of flooding, loess fall, and soil formation at Onion P…
Two Early Sites of Eastern Beringia
Between the Alaska Range to the south and the Brooks Range to the north, the Yukon River and its tributaries form an extensive network of waterways leading through the lowlands of interior Alaska deep into the North American continent (Fig 1). Despite the extremely cold winters of this arctic and subarctic landscape, much of the region remained unglaciated during the last 50,000 years. The central Alaskan lowlands are at the west end of the “ice-…
Revisiting the Timing of the Northern Lobe of the White River Ash Volcanic Event in Eastern Alaska and Western Yukon
The northern lobe of the White River Ash (WRAn) is part of a bilobate distribution of tephras that originated from the Wrangell Volcanic Field near the border of Alaska, USA, and Yukon, Canada. It is distributed across northeastern Alaska and the northwestern portion of the Yukon. The timing of this eruption has seen little critical analysis relative to the younger and more extensive eastern lobe eruption of the White River Ash. We compiled 38 ra…
Tundra and boreal forest of interior Alaska during terminal MIS 6 and MIS 5e
Latest Pleistocene Increase in Wind Intensity Recorded in Eolian Sediments from Central Alaska
A brief increase in wind intensity between ca. 11,100 and 10,700 yr B.P. is recorded by a sharp increase in sediment grain size at eolian sections along the Nenana River in central Alaska. This occurred at the same time as the Younger Dryas climatic reversal in northern Europe and an increase in the vigor of atmospheric circulation recorded by Greenland ice cores. Climatic fluctuations in high latitude areas during Younger Dryas time may reflect …
Two Early Sites of Eastern Beringia
Between the Alaska Range to the south and the Brooks Range to the north, the Yukon River and its tributaries form an extensive network of waterways leading through the lowlands of interior Alaska deep into the North American continent (Fig 1). Despite the extremely cold winters of this arctic and subarctic landscape, much of the region remained unglaciated during the last 50,000 years. The central Alaskan lowlands are at the west end of the “ice-…
Holocene forest development along the Setesdal valley, southern Norway, reconstructed from macrofossil and pollen evidence
The Crucible of Early to Mid-Holocene Climate in Northern Alaska
The Archaic stage was defined as a cultural response to post-Pleistocene landscapes dominated by trees. The Early Holocene produced an open landscape susceptible to colluviation, flooding, and gullying thus placing severe constraints on archaeological site preservation. The paleo-environment surrounding the development of the Northern Archaic can be reconstructed from pan-Alaska proxy records of flooding, loess fall, and soil formation at Onion P…
Tundra and boreal forest of interior Alaska during terminal MIS 6 and MIS 5e
Archéologie du Cap Espenberg où la question du Birnirk et de l’origine du Thulé dans le nord-ouest de l’Alaska
Le cap Espenberg est une flèche littorale au large de la mer des Tchouktches dans le nord-ouest de l’Alaska contenant les vestiges de 4000 ans d’occupations humaines et de changements climatiques. Les recherches archéologiques et paléo-environnementales, menées depuis 2009 dans le cadre d’un projet pluridisciplinaire, apportent des informations nouvelles sur la chronologie des occupations du dernier millénaire et documentent l’émergence de la cul…
Beringia and the global dispersal of modern humans
Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native Americans were thought to represent a small subset of the Eurasian population that migrated to the Western Hemisphere less than 15,000 years ago. Archeological discoveries since 2000 reveal, however, that Homo sapiens occupied the high‐latitude region between Northeast…
Revisiting the Timing of the Northern Lobe of the White River Ash Volcanic Event in Eastern Alaska and Western Yukon
The northern lobe of the White River Ash (WRAn) is part of a bilobate distribution of tephras that originated from the Wrangell Volcanic Field near the border of Alaska, USA, and Yukon, Canada. It is distributed across northeastern Alaska and the northwestern portion of the Yukon. The timing of this eruption has seen little critical analysis relative to the younger and more extensive eastern lobe eruption of the White River Ash. We compiled 38 ra…
Formation processes of archaeobotanical assemblages of an early Thule Iñupiaq dwelling at Cape Espenberg, northwest Alaska
Arctic. • Archaeobotany. • Formation process. • Inuit. • Plant use. Archaeobotany remains an underdeveloped discipline in the Arctic, with comparatively little known about the processes involved in the formation of plant assemblages in ancestral Inuit sites. Archaeobotanical records from seasonal forager sites at high latitudes present several peculiarities: 1) excellent preservation; 2) lack of domesticated species prior to contact with European…
Assessing Coastal Wetland Carbon and Mineral Accumulation Response to Changing Climate, Cape Espenberg, Alaska
The Arctic is experiencing warming and ecological shifts due to climate change and the compounding effects of polar amplification. Arctic Alaskan coastal marsh environments, such as the Cape Espenberg barrier beach system, offer an opportunity to determine the carbon cycle response to changing climate by examining sediment records that have been preserved through time as shoreline-parallel, linear geometry prograding geomorphic features. This stu…
Geography (9 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works) · Physical geography (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Arctic (4 works) · Holocene (4 works)