Hunter–gatherer foraging ranges, migrations, and travel in the middle Holocene Baikal region of Siberia: Insights from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope signatures

Brackish water foraging: isotopic landscapes and dietary reconstruction in Suisun Marsh, Central California

“…Analyses of human bone in a range of coastal (e.g., Clayton et al, 2006;Kusaka et al, 2010;Richards and Hedges, 1999;Richards et al, 2005;Walker and DeNiro, 1986), terrestrial (e.g., Gil et al, 2011;Pate, 1998;Tessone et al, 2009), and lacustrine (e.g., Katzenberg et al, 2012;Schoeninger, 1999;Weber et al, 2011) settings have shown the effects of these foodwebs on stable isotope signatures. Consumption of significant amounts of plant and animal resources from these different settings creates distinctive stable isotopic signatures that are preserved in human tissues, including the collagen and apatite in bones and teeth.…”

Differentiating mobility and migration in middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Siberia

“…The terrestrial and aquatic food webs were hypothesized to be enough different that a relative balance of different types of protein sources would be possible, though the entire food web was proven to be quite diverse (Katzenberg and Weber, 1999). The length of food chains, particularly within Lake Baikal, were found to be as long as in marine sources and a fruitful area for dietary and unexpectedly, for mobility research (Weber and Weber et al, 2011). While the goal of stable isotope studies was to differentiate regional and temporal dietary patterns, being able to distinguish between the aquatic resources that came from different types of watercourses (e.g., small/large rivers, shallow/deep waters in Lake Baikal) has provided an additional means by which an individual can be associated with different areas based on the distributions of characteristic watercourses.…”

“…This discussion is based in a series of articles and book chapters produced over the last decade by the Baikal Archaeology Project (BAP) focusing on is the Cis-Baikal region of eastern Siberia (Haverkort et al, 2010;Haverkort et al, 2008;Scharlotta et al, 2013;Scharlotta and Weber, 2014;Weber and Goriunova, 2013;Weber et al, 2011). This research was produced in an environment of rapidly changing technical and theoretical discussions about how to address hunter-gatherer and mobility research.…”

Environmental change and cultural dynamics of Holocene hunter–gatherers in Northeast Asia: Comparative analyses and research potentials in Cis-Baikal (Siberia, Russia) and Hokkaido (Japan)

“…The extensive program of bioarchaeological work completed to date on the Cis-Baikal materials has been published in numerous research papers summarized recently in an edited volume (Weber et al, 2010a) with new studies appearing regularly (e.g., Bezrukova et al, 2011;WatersRist et al, 2010;Katzenberg et al, In Press;Losey et al, 2011;Mackay et al, 2011;Scharlotta et al, 2011;Waters-Rist et al, 2011;Weber et al, 2011;Shepard, In Press;Weber and Goriunova, In Press). Clearly, our current views on the subject (Weber and Bettinger, 2010) are different from those presented earlier (Weber, 1995;Weber et al, 2002;Weber and McKenzie, 2003).…”

“…4.2. Cis-Baikal environmental background In the present day, Cis-Baikal (Figure 2) is ecologically a highly complex and diverse region (e.g., Weber, 2003;Weber and Bettinger, 2010;Weber et al, 2011). It features a markedly continental boreal climate with vegetation dominated by middle and southern taiga forests.…”