Pointer years in modern Picea glauca from the Giddings’ collection (AD 1600-1941): A tool for cross-dating and identifying extreme weather events in northwestern Alask

Abstract

International audienceAt the beginning of the second millennium AD, northwestern Alaska is the scene of significant climate and cultural changes. It is during this period of climatic instability of the transition from Medieval Climate Anomaly to Little Ice Age (AD 1000-1350), that appears the Thule culture, direct ancestor of the today’s Inuit people (Mason 2017)