Paleodiet, Radiocarbon Chronology, and the Possibility of Freshwater Reservoir Effect for Preobrazhenka 6 Burial Ground, Western Siberia

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ID9244950
AutoresZ V Marchenko, L A Orlova, V S Panov, A V Zubova (0000-0002-7254-1098), V I Molodin, O A Pozdnyakova, A E Grishin, E A Uslamin
Año2015
Volumen57
Número4
Páginas595-610
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRadiocarbon (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0033-8222 • E-ISSN: 1945-5755
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2458/azu_rc.57.18435
OpenAlexW1895625413
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas30

This article presents the results of radiocarbon dating and a chronology of the Preobrazhenka 6 site of the Odino culture (Baraba forest steppe, western Siberia). Currently available 14 C data for the necropolis do not allow accurate determination of the presence or absence of reservoir effects, and as such, further research is needed. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C dating of paired samples of terrestrial faunal and fish remains from a Neolithic pit suggest the absence of a reservoir effect in fish bone collagen. Middle Bronze Age burials have therefore been estimated to date to the 23rd–20th centuries cal BC. Pits with fish remains are dated earlier than burials, to the 63rd–61st centuries cal BC. Stable isotope measurements of human bone collagen (high δ 15 N and low δ 13 C values) indicate diets based on C 3 plants and fish. Apparently, the role of animal protein in the diet was not significant. Dental paleopathology analysis has confirmed the important role of wild plants in human diet. Neolithic fish bones are elevated in δ 13 C [–13.5‰, average mean ( n = 4)]. They are significantly different from the associated values of fish from the Late Bronze Age settlement of Chicha 1 [–22.5‰, average mean ( n = 10)], which is also located in the Baraba forest steppe. The difference in δ 13 C values in fish bones may be determined by the origin of the samples, being derived either from lakes or rivers

Accelerator mass spectrometry · Archaeology · Biology · Bronze Age · Chronology · Fish · Fish bone · Fishery · Geography · Human bone · Isotope analysis · Radiocarbon dating · Steppe · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology