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Analysis of a lithic assemblage from the multi-component habitation site Gorelyi Les, Siberia
DownloadSpring 2011
The research presented in this thesis examines a lithic assemblage from the multi-component habitation site Gorelyi Les in the Belaia river valley, Cis-Baikal region, Siberia. The distinctive traits of this collection are the relatively small size of the lithic assemblage and the large proportion...
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Beyond the Archive: Using Excavation Photography to Assess Skeletal Preservation at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, an Early Bronze Age Cemetery on Lake Baikal
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The purpose of this research is to examine how accurately skeletal preservation can be estimated using in-situ photographs of human burials taken for documentary purposes during archaeological excavation. Skeletal completeness and fragmentation were estimated on an element-by-element basis using...
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Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia: reconstructing childhood diet of Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers
DownloadSpring 2020
van der Haas, Victoria Marie-Louise
While substantial progress has been made in studying hunter-gatherer diets through stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N), research on diet during childhood remains rather poor. This study uses dentine micro-samples to reconstruct childhood diet of individuals from six...
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Seal or No Seal? A Bayesian (FRUITS) Modeling of Hunter-gatherer Diet in the Little Sea Micro-Region of Lake Baikal
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The non-specific nature of stable isotope analysis limits interpretive assessments of diet to relative contributions of food sources. In an attempt to address this issue, scholars have focused on mixing models as a potential avenue to provide quantifiable measurements of dietary source...
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Spring 2012
This research comprises a series of papers to address the methodology of studying hunter-gatherer mobility in prehistoric populations. As a laboratory for this research, middle Holocene hunter-gatherer groups from Cis-Baikal, Siberia were analyzed as part of ongoing research by the Baikal...