Umfang:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781803274942
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
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 3. Ol'khon Island in the Little Sea micro-region. Created by: Dr. Christian Leipe (FU Berlin), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) v4.1 data (Jarvis et al. 2008). -- Table 2. Current cultural history model for Cis-Baikal based on radiocarbon dating (Weber et al. 2016). -- Figure 4. Expected changes in δ15N with age during nursing and weaning (Schurr 1998: 330). -- Figure 5. Stable isotope ecology of main Cis-Baikal food groups (adopted from Weber et al. 2002 using unpublished BAP data). -- 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. -- Table 4. Molar wear stages and descriptions according to Smith (1984: 45-46). -- Table 5. Formation time of the permanent molars according to the London Atlas (AlQahtani et al. 2010). -- Figure 9. Multi-molar dentine profile for individual MNZ_1974.002.
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Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
