Our new study tests whether Mg/Ca ratios measured with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) can reveal when Indigenous communities in ancient Tampa Bay, Florida, harvested their oysters. Workin...

Our new paper provides high-resolution data into the seasonality of prehistoric shellfish exploitation at the Haua Fteah (northern Cyrenaica, Libya). The research applies laser-induced breakdown spect...

Alejandro León Cristóbal is a doctoral researcher from the University of La Rioja (Spain). He does research in marine mollusc shells, ethnoarchaeology, oxygen isotope analysis, Palaeolithic Archaeolog...

Emmy Noether Group Leader

Oysters inhabit a variety of coastal and deep-sea settings over a wide latitudinal range and have a role as ecosystem engineers. They also represent an important food source for humans since hunter-g...