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Dr. Rick Schulting and Corrie Hyland participate in “Animals Make Identities” Meetings in Helsinki, Finland

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 [...]

2022-12-08T12:45:57-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , |

Dr. Rick Schulting article published in International Journal of Paleopathology

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 [...]

2022-08-19T12:51:50-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Rick Schulting and colleagues article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

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 [...]

2022-01-31T13:39:23-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event

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, [...]

2023-04-04T14:10:49-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: , , , , |

Dr. Rick Schulting article published in Archaeological Research in Asia

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Title: Freshwater reservoir effects in Cis-Baikal: An overview Authors: Schulting RJ, Bronk Ramsey C, Scharlotta I, Richards MP, Bazaliiskii VI, Weber AW Abstract: This paper summarises research on freshwater reservoir effects (FRE) in the Baikal region and their impact on the radiocarbon dating of human remains. Varying relationships are seen between human δ13C and δ15N values and 14C offsets in paired [...]

2021-12-20T11:13:04-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

Freshwater reservoir effects in Cis-Baikal: An overview

This paper summarises research on freshwater reservoir effects (FRE) in the Baikal region and their impact on the radiocarbon dating of human remains. Varying relationships are seen between human δ13C and δ15N values and 14C offsets in paired human-terrestrial mammal radiocarbon dates from the same graves in the different microregions of Cis-Baikal. In the Upper Lena microregion the FRE may also vary through time. These differences can be related in some cases to different isotopic ecologies, and in [...]

2023-02-07T11:09:06-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: , , , , |

Alyssa White article published in Archaeological Research in Asia

Congratulations to Alyssa White and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Title: Turning eastward: New radiocarbon and stable isotopic data for Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers from Fofanovo, Trans-Baikal, Siberia Authors: White JA, Schulting RJ, Hommel P, Moiseyev V, Khartanovich V, Bronk Ramsey C, Weber AW Abstract: A considerable amount of bioarchaeological research – including AMS 14C dating and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) – has been undertaken on the [...]

2021-12-15T09:07:06-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , |

Turning eastward: New radiocarbon and stable isotopic data for Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers from Fofanovo, Trans-Baikal, Siberia

A considerable amount of bioarchaeological research – including AMS 14C dating and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses (δ13C and δ15N) – has been undertaken on the hunter-gatherers from the area west of Lake Baikal, known as Cis-Baikal. No such work has previously been reported for the east side of the lake, Trans-Baikal. Here, we present new radiocarbon dates and isotopic results for twenty individuals from the Fofanovo cemetery, located along the Selenga River on the southeast coast of [...]

2022-12-06T10:20:51-07:00Categories: Journal Articles, Publications|Tags: , , , |

Welcome our new BAP team member, Corrie Hyland!

We have a new BAP team member! Ms. Corrie Hyland is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford and she joins the Baikal Archaeology Project under the joint supervision of Drs. Amy Styring, Rick Schulting and Andrzej Weber. Specializing in stable isotope analysis, Corrie will be working to further develop the freshwater reservoir correction methods that refine the microregion chronologies of Lake Baikal. She will be expanding on the use of stable hydrogen and sulfur isotope analysis, as [...]

2021-09-02T11:18:48-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , |

Welcome our new BAP team member, Dr. Andrea Czermak!

We have a new BAP team member! Dr. Andrea Czermak is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and was introduced to the BAP by Dr. Rick Schulting. She is a trained biologist who specializes in sequential tooth dentine analysis to reconstruct early life histories of individuals. Andrea has developed and applied new refined methods for dentine analysis and micro-sampling. She is particularly interested in childhood and adolescence, stress and crisis events, subsistence strategies and mobility during times [...]

2021-08-20T10:36:21-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , |