Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes: a review

Over recent decades, palaeolimnological records from remote sites have provided convincing evidence for the onset and development of several facets of global environmental change. Remote lakes, defined here as those occurring in high latitude or high altitude regions, have the advantage of not being overprinted by local anthropogenic processes. As such, many of these sites record broad-scale environmental changes, frequently driven by regime shifts in the Earth system. Here, we review a selection of studies from North America and Europe and discuss their broader implications. The history of investigation has evolved synchronously with the scope and awareness of environmental problems. An initial focus on acid deposition switched to metal and other types of pollutants, then climate change and eventually to atmospheric deposition-fertilising effects. However, none of these topics is independent of the other, and all of them affect ecosystem function and biodiversity in profound ways. Currently, remote lake palaeolimnology is developing unique datasets for each region investigated that benchmark current trends with respect to past, purely natural variability in lake systems. Fostering conceptual and methodological bridges with other environmental disciplines will upturn contribution of remote lake palaeolimnology in solving existing and emerging questions in global change science and planetary stewardship.

Ethnographic collections from the Assiniboine and Yanktonai Sioux in the Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.26(1996)

Athapaskan clothing and related objects in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone, Curator, North American Archaeology and Ethnology, Dept. of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History.

n.s. no.4(1981)

[ Portolan chart of eastern North and Central America and northern South America] : manuscript, 1659

Autograph (signed) map. Includes inscription: Made by Nicholas Comberford dwelling neare to the west end of the school house at the Sign of the Platt in Redcliffe. Anno 1659.

The petitioners for settling His Majesties lands and islands lying between Nova Scotia and the province of Main in New England in America : manuscript, [ca. 1720]

Written in an unidentified hand, signed by Barkstead.

Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles, embracing a brief view of the Civil War; or, From New England to the Golden gate, and the story of his Indian campaigns, with comments on the exploration, development and progress of our great western empire;

A campaign against Apaches [1885-86] (Captain Maus' narrative): p. 450-471.

Wild life on the plains and horrors of Indian warfare : By a corps of competent authors and artists. Being a complete history of Indian life, warfare and adventure in America. Making specially prominent the late Indain war, with full descriptions of the Messiah craze, ghost dance, life of Sitting Bull ...

A reprint, with additional chapters, of Custer's "My life on the plains."

Tour of the American lakes, and among the Indians of the North-west Territory, in 1830: disclosing the character and prospects of the Indian race.

Mode of access: Internet.

Tales of the Indians; being prominent passages of the history of the North American natives. Taken from authentic sources.

The ancient Cherokees.--Cherokee wars.--The heroes of Walpole.--Memoirs of a northern trader.--Massacre of Michilimacinac.--Traits of the Tuskaroras.--Tuskarora war.--Adventures of Long.--The civilized cannibal.--Captivity of Mrs. Rowlandson.--Settlement of Kentucky.--The conspiracy of the Creeks.--Christian Indians.

Narrative and critical history of America /

"Pre-Columbian explorations": v. 1, p. 59-132.

Creation myths of primitive America in relation to the religious history and mental development of mankind /

Mode of access: Internet.

The development of modern Europe : an introduction to the study of current history /

"References" at end of chapters.

A history of the commonwealth of Kentucky.

Narrative closes in the midst of the war of 1812.

Creation myths of primitive America in relation to the religious history and mental development of mankind. Part 1.

The complete work was issued as a single volume (xxxix, 530p.) December 1898.

GIS technologies and spatial organization patterns among hunter-gatherers: an archaeological case study from Southern Patagonia (southern South America)

This paper discusses some aspects of hunter-gatherer spatial organization in southern South Patagonia, in later times to 10,000 cal yr BP. Various methods of spatial analysis, elaborated with a Geographic Information System (GIS) were applied to the distributional pattern of archaeological sites with radiocarbon dates. The shift in the distributional pattern of chronological information was assessed in conjunction with other lines of evidence within a biogeographic framework. Accordingly, the varying degrees of occupation and integration of coastal and interior spaces in human spatial organization are explained in association with the adaptive strategies hunter-gatherers have used over time. Both are part of the same human response to changes in risk and uncertainty variability in the region in terms of resource availability and environmental dynamics.