HYLAND Corrie

Dr. Corrie Hyland is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate (stable isotope analysis) in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, UK, as part of the Seeing the Dead project.

Past BAP Research: Corrie Hyland was a DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford and she joined the Baikal Archaeology Project under the joint supervision of Drs. Amy Styring, Rick Schulting and Andrzej Weber. Specializing in stable isotope analysis, Corrie was working to further develop the freshwater reservoir correction methods that refine the microregion chronologies of Lake Baikal. She expanded on the use of stable hydrogen and sulfur isotope analysis, as well as applying compound-specific stable carbon and nitrogen isotope techniques. These additional results and new stable isotope methods provided increasingly quantitative measurements of the proportion of freshwater food in the diets of Lake Baikal’s ancient fisher-hunter-gatherers. Corrie’s work within the Baikal Archaeology Project was one part of her larger DPhil research that assessed methods of stable isotope analysis in addressing freshwater reservoir offsets in radiocarbon dating.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bulk and compound-specific stable isotope analysis, Radiocarbon dating, Diet reconstruction, Life histories, Early state societies, Fisher-hunter-gatherers, Human osteology, Paleopathology