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Across Boundaries: Origin of Microblade Technology in NE Asia under a Macroecological Approach (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meng Zhang.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology on the Edge(s): Transitions, Boundaries, Changes, and Causes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The spread of microblade technology has been explained using human migration and cultural transmission under the culture-historical paradigm of a "refugium model" that illustrates movements of foraging societies from Transbaikal eastward to the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kurile (PSHK) Peninsula and to North China in...


Adaptive Strategies of Foragers and Early Herders in Mongolia's Desert-Steppe: Implications for Understanding Social-ecological Dynamics, the Development of Food Production, and the Study of Long-Term Social Change (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Farquhar. Arlene Rosen.

This is an abstract from the "New Directions in Mongolian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents preliminary findings from ongoing research on the development of pastoralism in Mongolia’s semiarid desert-steppe. The project involves a multiscale investigation of human-environment interactions, specifically the relationship between climate change and land use, and how adaptive strategies impacted natural and social...


Ancient Genomics of Hunter-Gatherers at Lake Baikal: Shamanka II Case Study (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruairidh Macleod. Rick Schulting. Angela Lieverse. Andrzej Weber. Eske Willerslev.

This is an abstract from the "Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This talk will discuss the utility of ancient genomic data to gain insight into prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifeways and social organization at Lake Baikal. Specifically, we will focus on familial relationships in a putative massacre instance from the Early Bronze Age at the cemetery...


An Assessment of the Intrinsic Water Content to Understanding Obsidian Hydration: A Case Study of Paleolithic Obsidian from the Shirataki Region in Hokkaido, Japan (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuichi Nakazawa. Kyohei Sano.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Obsidian Studies of the Old and New Worlds" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Among the various factors that potentially affect the obsidian hydration rates, intrinsic water content of obsidian has been considered a significant factor. Despite this understanding, variation in water content even within the geochemically identical provenance of obsidian makes us difficult to evaluate the effect of water content...


Baibalyk: An Early Fortified Town and Trading Center in a Nomadic Pastoral Landscape on the Mongolian Steppe (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jeffrey Altschul. B. Gunchinsuren. T. Amgalantugs. John Olsen.

Mongolia is well known for its history of nomadic pastoralism and Bronze and Early Iron Age burials and monuments. It wasn’t until later in the Iron Age that the first large fortified towns and urban centers were built by the Uygher and Khitan Khanates. One of these, Baibalyk is believed to have been established in 758 CE by the Uyghur khagan, Bayanchur Khan, as a ceremonial and trading center in the fertile and strategically located Selenge Valley. Later in the 17th Century, Baibalyk is known...


Behavior from Spatial Structure in Archaeological Sites: A Working Model Based on Dukha Ethnography (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Haas. Todd Surovell. Matthew O'Brien.

Archaeologists commonly observe clear qualitative structure in the spatial distribution of artifacts deposited in archaeological sites. Quantification and interpretation of such structure remains a major challenge. Drawing on multiple field seasons of observation among the Dukha—residentially mobile reindeer herders of the Mongolian Taiga—we present a likelihood based method for quantifying site-level structure in the use of space. This ideal ethnographic case in which behavior-structure...


The Book Antler on the Sea and Community Perspectives from Sireniki, Anna’s Home Village in Chukotka, Russia (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sveta Yamin-Pasternak. Igor Pasternak.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nearly three decades after her dissertation fieldwork in the village of Sireniki, which she conducted in the late Soviet period, anthropologist Anna Kerttula de Echave continues to be closely entangled within the life and social relationships of the community. In many Sireniki households, Anna’s book 'Antler on the Sea: the...


Change in Mobility and Site Occupation during the Late Pleistocene in Korea (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gayoung Park. Ben Marwick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone artifact assemblages can be an important source of information about hunter-gatherer mobility and subsistence, according to behavioral ecological theory that links technological changes to environmental adaptation. We examined stone artifacts from 28 sites in South Korea to investigate technological innovations during the Late Pleistocene and their...


Early Bronze Age Cemeteries on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Their History and Patterns of Use (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrzej Weber. Olga Goriunova.

This is an abstract from the "Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemeteries are usually analyzed as one chronologically flat block of data representing certain groups of people. While justified by small sample sizes or dating problems, such an approach is obviously ahistorical in that it denies these cemeteries and...


Earth House, Chum and Reindeer Shed: Ethnoarchaeological Research on Household and Settlement Organization of Mobile Hunter-Fisher-Reindeer Herders in Western Siberia (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henny Piezonka. Olga Poshekhonova. Vladimir Adaev. Aleksey Rud.

This is an abstract from the "Empirical Approaches to Mobile Pastoralist Households" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Taz Selkup are a Siberian indigenous group of hunters, fishers and reindeer herders in the northern taiga between Ob' and Yenisei. In the 17th and 18th centuries they have migrated north from Tomsk region, and in the new territory have preserved their nomadic ways until today. The adaptation to the new environment and its effects...


Expanding Individual Life Histories to Large-Scale Dietary Comparisons of Early Neolithic Cemetery Populations at Lokomotiv and Shamanka II, Cis-Baikla, Siberia (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Scharlotta.

This is an abstract from the "Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reconstructing individual life histories using bio- and geochemical proxy records from 3-molar sequences of incremental dentin has elucidated a surprising degree of interpersonal variability amongst Early Neolithic populations in southwestern Cis-Baikal, Siberia. Previous...


Exploring (In)Visible Impacts of Multispecies Living among Hunter-Fisher-Herders in Boreal North Asia (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Windle.

This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rangifer tarandus (reindeer and caribou) are a keystone species that have shaped the complex fabric of mobile hunter-fisher societies in North Asia, not only as herded animals and wild game but as animate persons. In western Siberia and northern Mongolia, descendant...


Following the Felt: Object Trajectories and Gendered Social Networks in Contemporary Western Mongolia (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen Pearson.

This is an abstract from the "From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have suggested that investment in flexible and spatially extensive social networks helped sustain mobile pastoralist communities and states in the past. This study explores the material dimensions of such social networks through an investigation of household textile...


The Foundational Element of Mobile Land-Use Systems in the Initial Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene Adoption of Ceramic Vessels in the Transbaikal Region, Siberia (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karisa Terry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Some of the earliest ceramic vessels worldwide were used by foraging communities in NE Asia (i.e., Japan, Russian Far East) by roughly 16,000 years ago (i.e., Iizuka 2018). Subsequently, in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia the earliest adoption of ceramics by 15,000 or 7000 cal BP (see Hommel 2017; Iizuka 2019; Terry 2022) is thought to have...


Genome-wide Ancient DNA from Historical Siberia as a Lens on Yeniseian Population History (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Kim. Tatyana Savenkova. Svetlana Smushko. Yevgenia Reis. David Reich.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient DNA in Service of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The relevance of ancient DNA to debates in language prehistory is a noteworthy strand in Eurasian archaeogenetic research, where much effort has gone towards relating these data to Indo-European. We relate new genome-wide ancient DNA data from a historical Siberian individual to Yeniseian, an enigmatic and isolated language "microfamily" at the...


Historic Context and Evaluation for the Long Range Aid to Navigation-A Station on Wake Atoll (Peale Island) 1951-1977, United States Air Force PACAF Regional Support Center (PRSC) (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text PACAF Regional Support Center.

The purpose of this report is to provide historic context on a Long-Range Aid to Navigation (LORAN) system that operated in the Pacific theatre after World War II, and also to provide a historic context and evaluate the remaining elements of the LORAN station on Wake Atoll. To evaluate the historic significance of a property, the historic context of the property must be established.


Human-Environment Interactions: The Role of Foragers in the Development of Mobile Pastoralism in Mongolia's Desert-Steppe (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Farquhar.

This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a research design to investigate the role of foragers in the evolution of pastoralism in Mongolia’s desert-steppe. Past efforts to understand the origins of herding have been stymied by the "steppe and sown" dichotomy that perpetuates long held stereotypes of farmers and...


Hunter-Gatherer Violence in the Middle Holocene Baikal Region: A Probable Massacre at Shamanka II (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Lieverse. Rick Schulting. Vladimir Bazaliiskii. Artur Kharinskii. Andrzej Weber.

This is an abstract from the "Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Violence was uncommon among the Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Siberia’s Baikal region (<5%), and lethal violence even less so (~1%). At the site of Shamanka II, however, 11 (or 85%) of 13 interred Early Bronze Age (EBA; 4970⎼3470 cal. BP) individuals exhibit evidence of...


Inferences about and Inferences from: A Comparison of Kernel Density Estimation and Latent Mixture Modeling in Demographic Temporal Frequency Analysis (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Novel Statistical Techniques in Archaeology I (QUANTARCH I)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Temporal frequency analysis (TFA) comprises methods both for the characterization of temporal distributions of archaeological samples and for drawing inferences about their underlying data generating processes (DGPs). In motivation, these two activities resemble descriptive and inferential statistics, respectively. However,...


Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan October 2015 - September 2020 for Wake Island Airfield (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce T. Verhaaren. Douglas Kullen.

The Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) is a planning document used to manage an installation's cultural resources management program. The document identifies cultural resource activities such as surveys and building inventories, that have taken place on an installation. It also identifies and describes historic resources within installation boundaries, identifies Native American groups affiliated with an installation, and provides a plan for staying in compliance with...


Levallois Features in Lithic Industries of the North Pacific (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. S. Vasilievsky.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


A Multi-isotope Approach to Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Microregional Connectivity in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Southern Siberia (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karolina Werens. Rick Schulting. John Pouncett. Andrzej Weber. Christophe Snoeck.

This is an abstract from the "Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic variability in the environment is commonly used in archaeology to study provenance and mobility in the past. The interpretation of 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O isotopic values in humans, typically measured in dental enamel, relies on a comparison...


Nutritional and Infectious Diseases in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Mongolia: The Archaeological Significance (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Melandri Vlok. Erdene Myagmar. Hallie Buckley.

This is an abstract from the "New Directions in Mongolian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The identification of nutritional and infectious diseases in human skeletal assemblages has value for both bioarchaeologists and archaeologists for assessing the impact of particular biosocial and environmental contexts on health. This paper presents skeletal evidence of the nutritional diseases rickets, osteomalacia, and scurvy, and infectious...


Prehistoric Culture Waves from Asia To America (1941)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Diamond Jenness.

The recent excavations of Collins on St. Lawrence Island and at other places around the Bering Sea " seem to bring out one very important point, viz, that there has been no extensive migration across Bering Strait, unless it be of Eskimo, since the early centuries of the Christian Era. The Eskimo culture strata in that region show no profound disturbance such as one would expect from an invading horde, but rather a gradual change, stimulated to some extent by Asiatic as well as strictly...