Dr. Angela Lieverse presented a poster, with our BAP colleagues as co-authors, at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Society, held in Los Angeles, March 18-20, 2024. Title: Postcranial trauma in the Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal Authors: Lieverse AR, Schulting RJ, Bazaliiskii VI, Goriunova OI, Kharinskii AA, Weber AW
Our second BAP MORS of 2024! These seminars are a great way to learn and connect with our international team on a regular basis. February 28, 2024: Rick Schulting (University of Oxford). “Playing with hydrogen: a (somewhat) new isotopic system to explore trophic level and weaning” Thank you to Rick for presenting his very interesting research!
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 Estimate methodology applied [...]
Analyses of radiocarbon dates (all corrected for the freshwater reservoir effect) and associated stable isotope values obtained from the skeletal remains of ~560 individuals provide many new insights about Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers (HG) 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 [...]
Dr. Andrzej Weber would like to announce that full text translations (from English to Russian) of the three papers below have been published in “BULLETIN OF THE IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY. GEOARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY SERIES”. 2023. Volume 43. All three papers can be downloaded here: https://izvestiageoarh.isu.ru/en/journal?id=42 Links to individual papers below: Title: Неолит и ранний бронзовый век Предбайкалья: хронология и пищевые тренды (Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Cis-Baikal: Chronology and Dietary Trends) Authors: A. W. Weber, C. Bronk [...]
Congratulations to BAP graduate student Corrie Hyland, who was awarded best student paper at the recent Radiocarbon and Diet Conference, held June 20-23 at the University of Oxford! Along with the title, Corrie was awarded 100GBP (kindly sponsored by IonPlus)! Title: Using Amino Acid Isotope Values to Determine Freshwater Reservoir Offsets Authors: Corrie Hyland, Amy Styring, Rick Schulting, Andrzej Weber Abstract: Previous paired dating studies of early hunter-gatherer populations from the Upper Lena and Little Sea microregions in Cis-Baikal [...]
Note from Rick Schulting: BAP members Rick Schulting and Corrie Hyland participated in a recent Animals Make Identities (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/animals-make-identities) project meeting 15-18 November, led by Dr. Kristiina Mannermaa and held at the University of Helsinki’s marine research station (every university should have one) at Tvärminne. Highlight (other than the excellent research papers) was the proper Finnish sauna – no snakes allowed! Photo of no snakes poster by Eileen Murphy. Unfortunately, action photos from Finnish sauna are unavailable. Great looking [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and co-authors on the publication of their paper in International Journal of Paleopathology! Title: A sting in the tail: An embedded stingray spine in a mid-1st millennium AD adult male skeleton from Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan Authors: Rick J. Schulting, Daisuke Kubo, Kiyonori Nishida, Izumi Braddick, Minoru Yoneda, Hirofumi Kato, Hajime Ishida Abstract: Objectives: We report here a stingray spine (Dasyatidae) found embedded in the femur of a male skeleton from the archaeological site [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Nature Ecology & Evolution Title: Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event Authors: Schulting RJ, Mannermaa K, Tarasov PE, Higham T, Bronk Ramsey C, Khartanovich V, Moiseyev V, Gerasimov D, O’Shea J, Weber AW. Abstract: Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Karelia, northwest Russia, is one of the largest Early Holocene cemeteries in northern [...]
Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Karelia, northwest Russia, is one of the largest Early Holocene cemeteries in northern Eurasia, with 177 burials recovered in excavations in the 1930s; originally, more than 400 graves may have been present. A new radiocarbon dating programme, taking into account a correction for freshwater reservoir effects, suggests that the main use of the cemetery spanned only some 100–300 years, centring on ca. 8250 to 8000 cal BP. This coincides remarkably closely with the 8.2 ka cooling event, [...]
