This is an account of where and when people lived on the Alaska Peninsula over the past 6,000 years.

What is it about?

This research uses archaeological data (specifically the spatial distribution of radiocarbon age estimates on cultural deposits) to evaluate the impact of volcanic eruptions on human settlement and landscape ecology.

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Why is it important?

This research helps us to understand post-volcanic succession - it shows how long it takes for humans (and presumably the plants and animal upon which they depend) to recolonize areas after volcanic activity of different magnitudes. More generally, it reveals how disasters of different scales affect evolutionary history in very different ways.