Recommended Reading
Compiled by Alison J. Smith, Department of Geology, Kent State University
Below is a list of books, articles, and websites that will help you with any background you may feel you need prior to attending the summer workshop. All the articles here are electronically available, either through open access websites, such as the PNAS articles (PNAS articles are open access, available through their archives), or through participating servers such as are held by most universities and large public libraries.
Web Resources
Interactive maps and graphics from NOAA
Learn about ice ages and Milankovitch (orbital) cycles
See how thermohaline circulation works
See how surface ocean circulation works
Check out this El Niño/La Niña webpage
NOAA Acrtic Theme Page - see what the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation, and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) are all about
Image Libraries of Common Paleoecological Proxies (Pollen, Diatoms, Ostracodes...)
Dating Methods
Radiocarbon Calibration, A Vignette-Key Concept in Geomorphology Publication by Quan Hua, November, 2009, open commons publication
Books
Paleoclimate
Alley, Richard B., 2000. The Two Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, Princeton University Press.
Imbrie, John and Imbrie, Katherine P., 1986. Ice Ages, Solving the Mystery, Harvard University Press.
Soils
Birkeland, Peter, 1999. Soils and Geomorphology, Oxford University Press. (see pages 268-306 and 339-346)
Archaeology
Adovasio, J. & J. Page (2002) The first Americans: in pursuit of archaeology's greatest mystery. Random House, New York.
Bonnichsen, R., B. Lepper, D. Stanford, and M. Waters (2006) Paleoamerican origins: beyond Clovis. Center for the Study of the First Americans, College Station, Texas.
Gillespie, A., S.C. Porter and B. Atwater (2004) The Quaternary period in the United States. Elsevier Science, New York.
Jablonski, N., editor (2002) The first Americans: the Pleistocene colonization of the New World.Memoirs California Academy of Sciences, No. 27.
Meltzer, D.J. (2009) First peoples in a New World: colonizing Ice Age America. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Ubelaker, D., editor, (2006) Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 3, Environment,Origins, and Population. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Articles
Dating Methods
Reimer et al., 2009. INTCAL09 and MARINE09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0–50,000 YEARS CAL BP, Radiocarbon, Vol 51, Nr 4, 2009, p 1111–1150.
The Younger Dryas
Broecker, W., G. Denton, R.L. Edwards, H. Cheng, R. Alley & A. Putnam (2010) Putting the Younger Dryas cold event into context. Quaternary Science Reviews29:1078-1081.
Broecker, W.S. (2006) Was the Younger Dryas triggered by a flood? Science312:1146-1148
Carlson, A. et al. (2007) Geochemical proxies of North American freshwater routing during theYounger Dryas cold event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)104:6556-6561
Firestone et al. (2007) Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)104:16016-16021
Meltzer, D.J. and V.T. Holliday (2010) Would North American Paleoindians have noticed Younger Dryas age climate changes? Journal of World Prehistory23:1-41
Clovis Origins
Bradley, B. & D. Stanford (2004) The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: a possible Palaeolithic route to the New World. World Archaeology36:459-478.
Bradley, B. & D. Stanford (2006) The Solutrean-Clovis connection: reply to Straus, Meltzer and Goebel. World Archaeology38:704-714.
Pitulko, V. et al. (2004) The Yana RHS Site: Humans in the Arctic before the Last Glacial Maximum. Science303:52-56.
Straus, L., D. Meltzer, & T. Goebel (2005) Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis'Connection.' World Archaeology37:506-531.
Westley, K. & J. Dix (2008) The Solutrean Atlantic hypothesis: a view from the ocean. Journalof the North Atlantic1:85-98.
Soils
Catt, J.A., 1991. Soils as indicators of Quaternary climate change in mid-latitude regions. Geoderma 51: 167-187.
Dahms, D., and V.T. Holliday, 1998. Paleosols as environmental indicators: A critical review. Quaternary International 51/52: 109-114.
Retallack, G.J., 1993. Classification of paleosols: Discussion. Geological Society of America Bulletin 105: 1635-1636.
Retallack, G.J., 1994. The environmental factor approach to the interpretation of paleosols. In Factors of Soil Formation: A Fiftieth Anniversary Perspective, edited by R. Amundson, pp. 31-64. Soil Science Society of America Special Publication No. 33, Madison, Wisconsin.