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We are delighted to announce a Conchological Society Research Grant of £1000 to Amy Prendergast, of the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, for:
“Shell growth and stable isotope chemistry of Helix melanostoma: a new climate archive for North Africa.”
Her project aims to examine the use of stable oxygen isotope ratios in land snails to reconstruct past climate on the basis that these ratios vary with temperature; she will analyse living snails and plant samples from areas with different temperature regimes to test the method, and then apply it to snail shells from Haua Fteah, a cave site in Libya with Helix shells from occupation levels dating from 20,000 yBP to the Roman period.