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Archaeological Research in Asia June 2021

Middle Holocene hunter–gatherer mortuary practices in the Little Sea microregion on Lake Baikal, part I: Early Neolithic

Goriunova OI, Novikov AG, Turkin GV, Weber AW

Archaeological research on Cis-Baikal Early Neolithic mortuary practices has traditionally focused on the Kitoi mortuary tradition with its rich materials known from several large cemeteries of the Angara Valley and Southwest Baikal. Assemblages that do not fit that description have attracted much less attention. Currently, in Cis-Baikal, the Little Sea microregion has the highest number of such graves. The mortuary variation displayed by this material (31 burials from 26 graves at 8 localities) allows their provisional classification into [...]

Erin2022-07-12T13:01:12-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Goriunova, Novikov, Weber|

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports June 2021

A four-stage approach to re-associating fragmented and commingled human remains

Bourgeois RL, Bazaliiskii VI, McKenzie H, Clark TN, Lieverse AR

Bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological methods are limited in their ability to re-associate human skeletal remains that have been both fragmented and commingled. Although many methods for individualizing commingled remains exist, they are rendered ineffective when the level of fragmentation is high. In these contexts, human remains are often approached similarly to faunal assemblages, regarded as sets of fragmented elements rather than as groups of fragments representing an individual. This paper introduces a new, four-stage approach to identifying discrete [...]

Erin2022-06-08T10:08:06-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Bazaliiskii, Lieverse, McKenzie, Bourgeois|

Science Advances 14 April 2021

Breakthrough in purification of fossil pollen for dating of sediments by a new large-particle on-chip sorter

Kasai Y, Leipe C, Saito M, Kitagawa H, Lauterbach S, Brauer A, Tarasov PE, Goslar T, Arai F, Sakuma S.

Particle sorting is a fundamental method in various fields of medical and biological research. However, existing sorting applications are not capable for high-throughput sorting of large-size (>100 micrometers) particles. Here, we present a novel on-chip sorting method using traveling vortices generated by on-demand microjet flows, which locally exceed laminar flow condition, allowing for high-throughput sorting (5 kilohertz) with a record-wide sorting area of 520 micrometers. Using an activation system based on fluorescence detection, the method successfully sorted 160-micrometer [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-05-03T12:17:48-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov|

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports April 2021

Building a high-resolution chronology for northern Hokkaido – A case study of the Late Holocene Hamanaka 2 site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido (Japan)

Junno A, Dury JPR, Leipe C, Wagner M, Tarasov PE, Hirasawa Y, Jordan PD, Kato H

Archaeological radiocarbon dating in coastal northern Hokkaido is challenged by the marine reservoir effect and the scarcity of materials with terrestrial carbon sources. This has contributed to gaps and general uncertainty in the timing of the region's culture-historical periods. The Late Holocene site of Hamanaka 2 on Rebun Island, featuring a stratified shell midden context with excellent preservation of organic remains, provides an ideal setting for addressing this issue. A Bayesian chronological model was deployed to study the [...]

Erin2022-04-05T11:47:17-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Jordan, Tarasov, Wagner|

Journal of Quaternary Science March 2021

Not herbs and forbs alone: pollen‐based evidence for the presence of boreal trees and shrubs in Cis‐Baikal (Eastern Siberia) derived from the Last Glacial Maximum sediment of Lake Ochaul

Kobe F, Leipe C, Shchetnikov AA, Hoelzmann P, Gliwa J, Olschewski P, Goslar T, Wagner M, Bezrukova EV, Tarasov PE

A new accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS)‐dated sedimentary record from Lake Ochaul (54°14′N, 106°28′E; 641 m a.s.l.) in Eastern Siberia covers the interval from ca. 27 850 to 20 400 cal a bp at ca. 180‐year resolution and contributes to a better understanding of the complex spatial vegetation pattern during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Non‐arboreal pollen taxa are abundant in the pollen assemblages (mean value ca. 92.6%), but boreal trees are represented by all major taxa that grow in the lake catchment today, [...]

Erin2022-03-01T13:10:22-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner|

Archaeological Research in Asia March 2021

Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia

Bronk Ramsey C, Schulting RJ, Bazaliiskii VI, Goriunova OI, Weber AW

Hunter-gatherer archaeology typically focusses on the details of subsistence strategies and material culture and, in the case of cemeteries, on various aspects of mortuary practices, beliefs, and social differentiation. This paper aims to look rather at patterns of change over time and space in how past hunter-gatherer cemeteries were used from Late Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age (~8600–3500 cal. BP) in the Cis-Baikal region of Eastern Siberia. The approach is based on a Kernel Density methodology applied to [...]

Erin2022-02-01T15:37:08-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Schulting, Bazaliiskii, Ramsey, Goriunova, Weber|

Archaeological Research in Asia March 2021

Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Chronology and dietary trends

Weber AW, Bronk Ramsey C, Schulting RJ, Bazaliiskii VI, Goriunova OI

Analyses of radiocarbon dates (all corrected for the freshwater reservoir effect) and associated stable isotope values obtained from the skeletal remains of ~650 individuals provide many new insights about Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers (HGs) of the Cis-Baikal region, Eastern Siberia. The new radiocarbon evidence clarifies the culture history of the region by defining better the boundaries between the chronological (archaeological periods) and cultural (mortuary traditions) units, as well as our understanding of the transitions between them. Furthermore, differences between [...]

Erin2022-01-05T11:53:00-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Schulting, Bazaliiskii, Ramsey, Goriunova, Weber|

Archaeological Research in Asia March 2021

Skeletal and dental maturation relative to tooth formation in prehistoric hunter-gatherers from Cis-Baikal, Siberia

Temple DH, Lieverse AR, Bazaliiskii VI, Faccia K, Weber A

This study reconstructs fusion of skeletal elements and tooth emergence relative to tooth formation among prehistoric hunter-gatherers from Cis-Baikal, Siberia (ca. 8000 to 5200 BP). Tooth formation was recorded using standard protocols. Ages were estimated based on tooth formation stages within an individual. Tooth emergence was recorded as not emerged, emerged beyond the alveolus, or in occlusion. Skeletal epiphyses and apophyses were recorded as fused or unfused. Fisher’s exact tests were used to test heterogeneity in each developmental [...]

Erin2021-12-07T10:32:06-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Temple, Bazaliiskii, Lieverse, Weber|

Archaeological Research in Asia March 2021

Spatial and temporal differences in Late Neolithic Serovo to Early Bronze Age Glazkovo forager diet in Lake Baikal’s Little Sea Microregion, Siberia

Waters Rist AL, Lieverse AR, Novikov AG, Goriunova OI, Kharinskii AA, McKenzie HG

Research on Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers from the Cis-Baikal region of Eastern Siberia has yielded many insights into their dietary and mobility patterns. A large dataset of stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope values, when paired with freshwater-reservoir corrected carbon-14 dates, allows us to conduct fine-scale investigations into dietary change. Our Small Cemeteries Project has increased the sample of Late Neolithic (LN) Serovo individuals, and Ol’khon Island burials, allowing for new investigations into changes between the Serovo and [...]

Erin2021-11-02T15:14:56-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Goriunova, Lieverse, McKenzie, Novikov, Waters-Rist|

Archaeological Research in Asia March 2021

Insights into Lake Baikal’s ancient populations based on genetic evidence from the Early Neolithic Shamanka II and Early Bronze Age Kurma XI cemeteries

Moussa NM, McKenzie HG, Bazaliiskii VI, Goriunova OI, Bamforth F, Weber AW

Although previous ancient DNA research has contributed to the investigation of middle Holocene culture history and population dynamics in the Cis-Baikal, most of this work has been limited to the Angara valley and southwest Baikal, with only restricted genetic analysis of skeletal materials from the Little Sea microregion. In this paper, we expand upon initial findings by analyzing new mtDNA results from the EN/EBA Kurma XI cemetery (Little Sea area) and the EN Shamanka II cemetery (southwest Baikal). [...]

Erin2021-10-05T16:31:35-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Bazaliiskii, Goriunova, McKenzie, Weber, Moussa|