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Evaluating Prehistoric Sea Ice Variability and Culture Change in Northwest Alaska Evaluating Prehistoric Sea Ice Variability and Culture Change in Northwest Alaska

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Archaeological fauna as paleoice proxybrProvide long term info on human scale and dimensionbrTest hypotheses of cultural interactionbrLessons of adaptation and resiliency challenges and possibilities ID: 776740

Prehistoric Sea Ice Subsistence Change Culture change Social Upheaval

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Evaluating Prehistoric Sea Ice Variability and Culture Change in Northwest Alaska

Adam Freeburg

University of

Washington

Seattle, USA

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Slide3

Archaeology provides...

Long term perspective

Interdisciplinarity

Human aspect

Slide4

Orthophoto

Manley et al.

2007

Slide5

Ice as

medium for...

Subsistence

TransportationLiving

http://vilda.alaska.edu

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Ice as

part of...

Subsistence Change

Culture changeSocial Upheaval

Reconstructing the “icescape”

http://vilda.alaska.edu

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Paleo

- proxies in NW Alaska

Tree rings

Pollen

Beach ridgesArchaeological fauna

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Ringed Seal-

Natchiq

(

Phoca

hispida

)

Prefers fast

ice

Sub-

nivean

lairs for birthing, nursing

Shorter ice duration can have impact on pup health, survival

Bearded Seal-

Ugruk

(

Erignathus

barbatus

)

Prefers

pack ice

Birthing, nursing on floes

Available only when pack ice is accessible from land (spring or autumn)

Photos: National Geographic

Fauna as Ice Proxy

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Fauna as Ice Proxy

Ipiutak

A.D. 450-650

Thule

A.D. 1000-1200

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Fauna as Ice Proxy

Ringed:Bearded

seal ratio change

Variability of ice extent/duration

Chronological resolution on human scale

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Ipiutak

(A.D. 450)

Thule

(A.D.

1000)

Kotzebue

(A.D. 1400)

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Ringed seal isotopes

(

Strathe

2007)

Increase in δ15N: widening diet

Decrease in

δ

1

3

C:

declining productivity

Productivity tied to timing, extent of sea

ice

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Summary

Archaeological fauna as

paleo

-ice proxy

Provide long term info on human scale and dimensionTest hypotheses of cultural interactionLessons of adaptation and resiliency- challenges and possibilities

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Acknowledgements

NRF: Young Researcher Fellowship

NPS

:

Alaska Regional Office and Western Arctic Parklands staff

UW: Ben Fitzhugh,

Shelby Anderson,

2008-2010 crews, and CAKR Lab students

Herbert Foster,

Krusenstern

community, and

Native Village

of Kotzebue

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