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Archaeological Research in Asia December 2021

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

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

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: Publications, Journal Articles|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: , |
Science Advances September 2019

Rick Schulting and Paula Reimer article published in Radiocarbon

Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and BAP Advisory Board member Dr. Paula Reimer (and colleagues) on their new paper published in Radiocarbon! Title: Millet consumption in Siberia prior to Mid-Second Millennium BC? A review of recent developments Authors: Svetlana V. Svyatko, Rick J. Schulting, Dmitriy Papin, Paula J. Reimer Abstract: In this paper we discuss recent developments in documenting the spread of millet across the Eurasian steppes. We emphasize that, despite a recent proposal that millet consumption in [...]

2021-08-20T10:50:16-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , |
Science Advances September 2019

Dr. Rick Schulting article published in Journal of Archaeological Science

Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and co-authors on the publication of their paper in Journal of Archaeological Science! Title: Subsistence shift and socio-economic response to cultural and climate changes aong north-central Iberian megalithic groups Authors: Fern´andez-Crespo, J. Ordo˜no, R.J. Schulting Abstract: The insufficient attention traditionally paid to the complex mortuary biographies of megalithic graves has long obscured a significant amount of synchronic and diachronic information. The Rioja Alavesa region of north-central Iberia holds a number of megalithic graves [...]

2021-08-20T11:11:31-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |
Archaeological Research in Asia March 2021

Christopher Bronk Ramsey paper published in Archaeological Research in Asia, March 2021

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

Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Bronk Ramsey on the recent publication of his article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Congratulations also to BAP co-authors Drs. Rick Schulting, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Olga I. Goriunova and Andrzej Weber. Title: Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia Authors: Bronk Ramsey C, Schulting RJ, Bazaliiskii VI, Goriunova OI, Weber AW Abstract: Hunter-gatherer archaeology typically focusses on the details of subsistence strategies and material culture and, in the [...]

2021-05-20T13:08:59-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |
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 [...]

2022-02-01T15:37:08-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: , , , , |
Archaeological Research in Asia March 2021

Andrzej Weber article published in Archaeological Research in Asia

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

Congratulations to Drs. Andrzej W. Weber, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Rick J. Schulting, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii and Olga I. Goriunova on the recent publication of their article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Title: Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: Chronology and dietary trends Authors: Andrzej W. Weber, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Rick J. Schulting, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii and Olga I. Goriunova. Abstract: Analyses of radiocarbon dates (all corrected for the freshwater reservoir effect) and associated stable isotope values obtained [...]

2022-01-05T11:54:12-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |
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 [...]

2022-01-05T11:53:00-07:00Categories: Journal Articles, Publications|Tags: , , , , |
Science Advances September 2019

Rick Schulting co-authored an article published in Nature Plants

Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Nature Plants! Title: ‘White gold’ guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from AD 1000 Abstract: The archaeological record shows that large pre-Inca agricultural systems supported settlements for centuries around the ravines and oases of northern Chile’s hyperarid Atacama Desert. This raises questions about how such productivity was achieved and sustained, and its social implications. Using isotopic data of well-preserved ancient plant [...]

2021-03-22T10:17:43-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |