Text

E-book Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia Russia

---

Penilaian

---

The Cis-Baikal is a vast region in Northeast Asia encompassing the western part of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. During the middle Holocene (c.8200–3700 cal BP1), the Cis-Baikal was inhabited by many individuals who left behind a rich archaeological and mortuary record. Archaeological research in the Cis-Baikal has been ongoing since the 19th century and has uncovered and documented many cemeteries, human and faunal remains, as well as cultural assemblages. The human burials are assigned to mortuary traditions dating to the region’s Late Mesolithic (LM) between c. 8200?7500 cal BP, the Early Neolithic (EN) between c. 7500?7000 cal BP, the Late Neolithic (LN) between c. 5500?4500 calBP, and the Early Bronze Age (EBA) between c. 4500?3700 cal BP. During the Middle Neolithic (c. 7000?5500 cal BP) the use of formal cemeteries is abandoned for over a 1000-year period. Understanding the discontinuity in cemetery use, as well as the development of hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Cis-Baikal, has been the underlying goal of the Baikal Archaeology Project (BAP) over the last three decades (Weber 1995; Weber and Bettinger 2010; Weber et al. 2002, 2010, 2016). The BAP is an international and collaborative team of scholars that use a multidisciplinary approach to examine the Cis-Baikal’s Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers. The BAP utilizes an approach known as life-history theory, which is a framework designed to study important events (i.e. birth, childhood development, reproduction, and death) that occur during an individual’s lifetime. Each individual can provide important information on biological as well as cultural variation. The skeletal remains, excavated from the Cis-Baikal cemeteries, underwent extensive examination and research, which resulted in a large set of isotopic data (87Sr/86Sr, 14C, ?13C, and ?15N). This work produced information on diet, subsistence, migrations, and social relations (Katzenberg et al. 2009, 2010, 2012; Weber and Bettinger 2010; Weber and Goriunova 2013; Weber et al. 2002, 2011). Particularly interesting, is that the stable isotope research demonstrated that several individuals migrated from the north of the Cis-Baikal area (known as the Upper Lena micro-region), toward the coast of Lake Baikal (the Little Sea micro-region) during the Early Bronze Age (Haverkort et al. 2008; Scharlotta and Weber 2014). Research further demonstrated that people from both micro-regions formed what appears to be a very cohesive social structure. In some cases, elements of cultural identity (dietary patterns) from the Upper Lena micro-region were retained by individuals after migrating to the Little Sea micro-region (Weber and Goriunova 2013). However, not all individuals retained these cultural elements and some instead adopted new dietary patterns. Furthermore, the migrations between these two micro-regions appear to have been asymmetrical: people migrated from the Upper Lena to the Little Sea but not the other way around (Scharlotta and Weber 2014; Weber and Goriunova 2013; Weber et al. 2011).

---

Ketersediaan

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

930.1 VAN g

Penerbit

London : Archaeopress Publishing., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

256 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781803274942

Klasifikasi

930.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

-

Subjek

Archaeology

Info Detail Spesifik

-

Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

-

Versi lain/terkait

Lampiran Berkas

Komentar

---

Anda harus masuk sebelum memberikan komentar