Evaluation of radiocarbon dates from the Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer cemetery Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Lake Baikal, Siberia

Weber, Andrzej; McKenzie, Hugh; Beukens, R.P.; Goriunova, Olga

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2005.04.003

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“…Weber et al 2002Weber et al , 2004Weber et al , 2005Weber et al , 2006 broadly confirmed the earlier conclusions (e.g. Konopatsky 1982:70-80;Mamonova and Sulerzhitsky 1989:28-31).…”

Section: Construction Of Cis-baikal Cultural Chronology: Facts and Prsupporting

confidence: 57%

“…I would note in response that 1 14 C value for Ust'-Ida I was published by Mamonova and Sulerzhitsky (1989:22, listed as Ust'-Uda; see above), and was already mentioned in other papers (e.g. Weber 1995:139;Weber et al 2005Weber et al :1487. In Naumova et al (1997), 7 other 14 C dates for the Ust'-Ida I cemetery were also presented (see above).…”

Section: Construction Of Cis-baikal Cultural Chronology: Facts and Prmentioning

confidence: 88%

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Hiatus in Prehistoric Chronology of the Cis-Baikal Region, Siberia: Pattern or Artifact?

Kuzmin¹

2007

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. The problem of a hiatus at about 6100-5300 BP (about 4900-4200 cal BC) in the prehistoric chronology of the Cis-Baikal region in Siberia is discussed. Based on a critical evaluation of existing evidence, there was no discontinuity found in the cultural sequence between the Kitoi and Serovo/Glazkovo complexes of the Neolithic, and the proposed "hiatus" may be an artifact based on underestimation of solid data. Conventional 14 C dates are presented that were generated in the 1980s to early 2000s for Cis-Baikal prehistoric burial grounds, and were later dated by the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS).

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“…Weber et al 2002Weber et al , 2004Weber et al , 2005Weber et al , 2006 broadly confirmed the earlier conclusions (e.g. Konopatsky 1982:70-80;Mamonova and Sulerzhitsky 1989:28-31).…”

Section: Construction Of Cis-baikal Cultural Chronology: Facts and Prsupporting

confidence: 57%

Section: Construction Of Cis-baikal Cultural Chronology: Facts and Prmentioning

confidence: 88%

Hiatus in Prehistoric Chronology of the Cis-Baikal Region, Siberia: Pattern or Artifact?

Kuzmin¹

2007

Radiocarbon

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“…Because we needed 1 mg of collagen for each run on the mass spectrometer, in some cases we had to combine collagen from successive serial sections to reach this amount. We rejected a small number of sections because they did not produce C=N ratios in the acceptable range of 2.9 to 3.6, indicating degraded collagen (DeNiro, 1985;van Klinken, 1999;Weber et al, 2005). Overall, we averaged between 7 and 8 serial sections with adequate collagen preservation per tooth across the 17 individuals included in the study.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sex‐biased weaning and early childhood diet among middle holocene hunter–gatherers in Central California

Eerkens

Bartelink

2013

American J Phys Anthropol

102

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This article evaluates age of weaning and early childhood diets of eight males and nine females from a Middle Holocene (4300-3000 BP) site in Central California, CA-CCO-548. All individuals died as adults. d 15N values from serial sections of dentin collagen in first molars suggest females were fully weaned, on average, by 3.6 years of age, about 0.4 years later than males in the sample, suggesting possible greater parental investment in female offspring. However, throughout childhood females consumed lower trophic-level foods than males. This could indicate greater investment in males through provisioning of higher quality foods, or alternatively, some degree of independent foraging by males starting as early as 2 to 3 years of age. Even as adults, these same males and females consumed a different range of foods as indicated by their bone collagen d Humans are unique among primates in terms of child investment and weaning practices. Not only is there extreme variation between and within particular societies, but offspring are typically weaned at much earlier ages than non-human primates, such as great apes. For example, accounting for differences in growth rates and life history effects, humans breastfeed on average less than half as long as our close relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas (Dettwyler, 2004;Kennedy, 2005).Early human weaning and the nature of early childhood diets, as well as high interindividual variation in such practices, has been used to speculate on a number of evolutionary processes in our species' past (Trivers, 1974;Blurton-Jones, 1986;Sellen and Smay, 2001, Stearns, 1992;Kaplan, 1996;Borgerhoff-Mulder, 1992, 2001Piperata, 2009). These processes often pit the costs of longer breastfeeding to parents, especially mothers, against benefits to offspring. Breast milk is a significant energetic investment for a mother. It can negatively impact her health, require her to work harder to obtain calories, take away from time she could be working (opportunity costs), and decrease her ability to get pregnant again, lowering her fertility and overall fitness, as well as that of her male partner (Delgado et al., 1982;Borgerhoff-Mulder, 1992;Riordan, 2005;Sellen, 2006;Piperata and Mattern, 2011). On the other hand, breast milk provides a child with a reliable and easily digestible source of calories and nutrients. Empirical evidence suggests that extended breastfeeding offers long-term benefits to children, such as increased stature, better cognitive capabilities (e.g., higher IQ), greater immunity to some diseases, and lower rates of obesity (Taren and Chen, 1993; Mortensen et al., 2002;Schack-Nielsen and Michaelsen, 2006), effects also seen in non-human primates (Hinde et al., 2009). For these reasons, the age at which a mother weans a child has often been used as a proxy measure of parental investment in offspring (Stuart-Macadam and Dettwyler, 1995;Humphrey, 2010).Research in human behavioral ecology suggests that parents will reduce their investment in children in environments where increas...

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“…In addition, two 14 C-AMS dates were obtained on bone samples from the newly discovered Tolbor 21 site , Gladyshev et al, 2013. Samples were selected for dating when showing a satisfying amount of collagen yield (>1%) (Ambrose, 1990,Weber et al, 2005Hublin et al, 2012) and C:N between 2.9 and 3.5 (Klinken, 1999). The samples were pretreated at MPI-EVA Leipzig using the method described in Talamo and Richards (2011).…”

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The open-air site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): Preliminary results and perspectives

Zwyns

Gladyshev

Gunchinsuren

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Quaternary International

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Evaluation of radiocarbon dates from the Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer cemetery Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Lake Baikal, Siberia

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Hiatus in Prehistoric Chronology of the Cis-Baikal Region, Siberia: Pattern or Artifact?

Hiatus in Prehistoric Chronology of the Cis-Baikal Region, Siberia: Pattern or Artifact?

Sex‐biased weaning and early childhood diet among middle holocene hunter–gatherers in Central California

The open-air site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): Preliminary results and perspectives

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