CALDAROLA Marine

Ms Marine Caldarola recently completed her MSc at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Rick Schulting. Her Master’s thesis, Stable isotope analysis of sequential dentine from an Early Bronze Age cemetery in Cis-Baikal, Siberia as a means to investigate weaning practices, helped to identify and compare breastfeeding, dietary and weaning patterns from the Uliarba cemetery. Significant differences between the EBA and EIA were found, Game-Fish and Game-Fish-Seal diets were observed in the EBA individuals and evidence of millet being consumed by the EIA pastoralists.

Her Bachelor’s thesis in 2020 focused on an oxygen isotope analysis of a mammoth tooth from Kostenki 11, Russia to find evidence of seasonal climatic variations, under the supervision of Alex Pryor at the University of Exeter.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioarchaeology, Forensic anthropology, Stable isotope analysis, Diet reconstruction, Climate reconstruction