Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Serbia, Russia : reconstructing childhood diet of middle ... holocene hunter-gatherers

Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Serbia, Russia : reconstructing childhood diet of middle ... holocene hunter-gatherers /

This volume analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this changed over time.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van der Haas, Victoria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, [2023]
Subjects:
Hunting and gathering societies > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Prehistoric peoples > Food > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Agriculture, Prehistoric > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Agriculture, Prehistoric
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology)
Hunting and gathering societies
Prehistoric peoples > Food
Russia (Federation) > Siberia
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents Page
  • List of figures and tables
  • Table 1. Summary of the sites and samples.
  • Figure 1. Map of East Asia. Source: Dr. Christian Leipe (FU Berlin), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) v4.1 data from Jarvis et al. 2008.
  • Figure 2. Topographic map of the Cis-Baikal region and the mortuary sites examined in this dissertation. Adapted from: Dr. Christian Leipe (FU Berlin), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) v4.1 data from Jarvis et al. 2008.
  • Figure 6. Stable isotope data for Cis-Baikal hunter-gatherers (Weber et al. 2011: 541). Data shown are from (a) all 4 micro-regions, (b) Angara valley, (c) Little Sea, (d) Upper Lena and Southwest Baikal.
  • Figure 7. The internal structure of a tooth (Townsend et al. 2015: 17).
  • Figure 8. Dentine and enamel secretion in a mammalian tooth (Piesco and Avery 2002: 91).
  • Table 3. Teeth of Cis-Baikal Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers selected for this study. L = Left
  • R = Right
  • M1, 2 or 3 = Upper 1st, 2nd or 3rd molar
  • M1, 2 or 3 = Lower 1st, 2nd or 3rd molar.

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