Ancient Genomics of Hunter-Gatherers at Lake Baikal: Shamanka II Case Study

Summary

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 site of Shamanka II, in conjunction with the presentation of Lieverse and Schulting in the same session that details the bioarchaeological analysis of this assemblage. Maximum likelihood inference of the topology of extended familial relationships through ancient genomics can shed insight into community structure and practices in prehistoric hunter-gatherer bands, and in this specific case, provide insight into the concurrency of deaths and burials in the Shamanka II group. The large-scale Stone Age cemeteries at Lake Baikal also provide an ideal context to study changes in social organization and heritable impacts of hunter-gatherer social inequality.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35650.0