HYLAND Corrie

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 well as applying compound-specific stable carbon and nitrogen isotope techniques. These additional results and new stable isotope methods will provide 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 is one part of her larger DPhil research that will assess 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