People & Puffins
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Investigating archaeological auk specimens to understand how past communities and climate have impacted current populations @bournemouthuni.bsky.social. (@britishacademy.bsky.social funded)
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A cave in northern Norway contains a deposit of 75,000-year-old bones, a treasure trove of information about Scandinavian animal communities during the last glacial period, including several species not previously found in Fennoscandia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A cave in northern Norway contains a deposit of 75,000-year-old bones, a treasure trove of information about Scandinavian animal communities during the last glacial period, including several species not previously found in Fennoscandia. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Introducing the People & Puffins project! Investigating archaeological occurrences of auks across their range. Focusing on past human-auk interactions, responses to changing climate across the Holocene and how specific events have shaped current populations (Photo: Bjørn Olsson)
February 2, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Introducing the People & Puffins project! Investigating archaeological occurrences of auks across their range. Focusing on past human-auk interactions, responses to changing climate across the Holocene and how specific events have shaped current populations (Photo: Bjørn Olsson)