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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|

Taylor & Francis/Routledge 2021

Climate and activity in Middle Holocene Siberia

Lieverse AR

In: G Robbins Schug (ed.). 2021. The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change, 416–423. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis/Routledge. This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past,and their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, migration, and interpersonal violence. Bioarchaeology—the study of archaeological human skeletons—provides direct evidence of the human experience of past climate and environmental changes and serves as an important complement to paleoclimate, historical, and archaeological approaches to [...]

pderas2021-12-03T11:43:54-07:00Categories: Publications, Book Chapters|Tags: Lieverse|

Archaeological Research in Asia December 2020

Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Combined impacts of the boreal forest, bow-and-arrow, and fishing

Weber AW

Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers (HG) of the Cis-Baikal region, Eastern Siberia, display substantial spatio-temporal variation in adaptive strategies highlighted by several cultural transitions. These transitions are examined focusing on the role of the following factors: (1) Changes in the distribution of the boreal forest; (2) Technological innovations; (3) Intensification of fishing; and (4) their combined impacts on subsistence and social structure. The expansion and retreat of boreal forest was important because it directly affected the distribution and abundance of [...]

Erin2022-01-05T11:48:42-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Weber|

Quaternary International December 2020

Environments during the spread of anatomically modern humans across Northern Asia 50-10 cal kyr BP: What do we know and what would we like to know?

Tarasov PE, Leipe C, Wagner M

Northern Asia (here, the Russian Federation east of the Urals) played a key role in the spread of anatomically modern humans (AMH) across the Eurasian continent during the Upper Palaeolithic (UP). This time interval witnessed the climatically harshest and most variable part of the last glacial epoch when AMH spread to all continents, with the exception of ice-covered Antarctica, thus raising questions about how humans and environments interacted. Our review of available proxy records shows that the study [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-08-03T10:26:04-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov, Wagner|

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology December 2020

Walnuts, salmon and sika deer: Exploring the evolution and diversification of Jōmon “culinary” traditions in prehistoric Hokkaidō

Robson HK, Lucquina A, Gibbs K, Saul H, Tomoda T, Hirasawa Y, Yamahara T, Kato H, Isaksson S, Craig OE, Jordan PD

The goal of this contribution is to stimulate a wider reflection on the role of food consumption practices throughout prehistory. We focussed on the Jōmon communities of Hokkaidō Island in Northern Japan since these mobile foragers underwent a process of economic diversification and intensification, eventually leading to higher levels of sedentism across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Moreover, dynamic social settings and expansion of the subsistence base at the start of the Holocene would have provided rich opportunities for novel [...]

Erin2021-07-12T10:45:45-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Jordan|

Global and Planetary Change December 2020

Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene

Harding P, Bezrukova EV, Kostrova SS, Lacey JH, Leng MJ, Meyer H, Pavlova LA, Shchetnikov A, Shtenberg MV, Tarasov PE, Mackay AW

Southern Siberia is currently undergoing rapid warming, inducing changes in vegetation, loss of permafrost, and impacts on the hydrodynamics of lakes and rivers. Lake sediments are key archives of environmental change and contain a record of ecosystem variability, as well as providing proxy indicators of wider environmental and climatic change. Investigating how hydrological systems have responded to past shifts in climate can provide essential context for better understanding future ecosystem changes in Siberia. Oxygen isotope ratios within lacustrine [...]

Erin2021-12-01T14:19:12-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Tarasov|

Archaeological Research in Asia December 2020

Resource processing, early pottery and the emergence of Kitoi culture in Cis-Baikal: Insights from lipid residue analysis of an Early Neolithic ceramic assemblage from the Gorelyi Les habitation site, Eastern Siberia

Bondetti M, Lucquin A, Savel'ev NA, Weber AW, Craig OE, Jordan PD

In the early Holocene, Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities inhabiting the Cis-Baikal region of Eastern Siberia were participating in a series of important cultural changes. These included the establishment of large cemeteries in the Angara Valley and on the Southwest shores of Lake Baikal, culminating in the formation of the distinctive Early Neolithic Kitoi cultural pattern ca. 7560 cal. BP. Around the same time, the appearance of clay pots in a few Kitoi graves and at some contemporary habitation sites marks [...]

Erin2022-01-28T10:58:06-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Jordan, Weber|

Archaeological Research in Asia December 2020

Chronological and regional variation in developmental stress and behavior of Early and Late Neolithic Cis-Baikal hunter-gatherer juveniles: Insights from diaphyseal cross-sectional geometry

Osipov B, Harrington L, Temple D, Bazaliiskii VI, Weber AW

This study explores growth (increase in size) and development (change in structure and function) in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal hunter-gatherer populations to evaluate chronological and regional variation in developmental health and juvenile behavior using post-cranial Cross-Sectional Geometry (CSG). It also evaluates whether sexual differences in size and habitual behavior were evident by the end of adolescence. Age and body size standardized femur, tibia, and humerus midshaft CSG are used to test for differences between Early Neolithic (EN) and Late [...]

Erin2021-05-04T09:39:52-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Temple, Bazaliiskii, Weber|

Archaeological Research in Asia December 2020

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

Goriunova OI, Novikov AG, Weber AW

This is the second in a series of two papers dedicated to the examination of Neolithic mortuary variation within the Little Sea microregion of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia. The first study, appearing also in this special issue, reviewed the Early Neolithic (EN) mortuary material (Goriunova et al., 2020), whereas the goal of this paper is to summarize the available archaeological material referred to as the Serovo mortuary tradition of the Little Sea area (henceforth, the Little Sea–Serovo). The focus [...]

Erin2021-04-08T14:21:17-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Goriunova, Novikov, Weber|

Journal of Archaeological Science July 2020

Integrated stable isotopic and radiocarbon analyses of Neolithic and Bronze Age hunter-gatherers from the Little Sea and Upper Lena micro-regions, Cis-Baikal, Siberia

White JA, Schulting RJ, Lythe A, Hommel P, Bronk Ramsey C, Moiseyev V, Khartanovich V, Weber AW

The Lake Baikal region of southern Siberia has a rich mortuary record that has provided the most comprehensive isotopic database for palaeodietary studies of north-temperate hunter-gatherers in the world, permitting more detailed reconstructions and finer-grained research questions than are usually possible. Building on previous work, this study contributes new δ13C, δ15N, and AMS radiocarbon dating results from the cemeteries of Verkholensk (n = 44) in the Upper Lena River micro-region and Ulan-Khada (n = 19) in the Little Sea micro-region. Our results [...]

Erin2021-01-05T11:12:43-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Schulting, Ramsey, Weber, White|