FRESHWATER RESERVOIR EFFECTS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS OF SIBERIA AND THE EURASIAN STEPPE
Svyatko S.V. Reimer P.J. Schulting R.J. Shevnina I. Logvin A. Voyakin D. Stobbe A. Merts I.V. Varfolomeev V. Soenov V. Tsydenova N.
27 April 2022Cambridge University Press
Radiocarbon
2022#64Issue 2377 - 388 pp.
In this paper we evaluate the extent of freshwater reservoir effects (37 samples across 12 locations) and present new data from various archaeological sites in the Eurasian Steppe. Together with a summary of previous research on modern and archaeological samples, this provides the most up-to-date map of the freshwater reservoir offsets in the region. The data confirm previous observations highlighting that FREs are widespread but highly variable in the Eurasian Steppe in both modern and archaeological samples. Radiocarbon dates from organisms consuming aquatic sources, including humans, dogs, bears, aquatic birds and terrestrial herbivores (such as elk feeding on water plants), fish and aquatic mammals, as well as food crusts, could be misleading, but need to be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Eurasian Steppe , freshwater reservoir effects , radiocarbon dating
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Queen’s University Belfast, 14Chrono Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology, Belfast, United Kingdom
Altai State University, Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Study Archaeology of West Siberia and Altai, Altajskij kraj, Barnaul, Russian Federation
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, United Kingdom
Kostanay Regional University named after A. Baitursynov, Archaeological laboratory, st. Baitursynova 47, Kostanay, 110000, Kazakhstan
International Institute for Central Asian Studies, Uzbekistan
Archaeological Expertise LLC, Kazakhstan
Goethe University Frankfurt, Archaeobotanical Laboratory, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Toraighyrov university, Archaeological scientific-practical center n.a. A.Kh. Margulan, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
E. A. Buketov Karaganda University, Karagandy Province, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Gorno-Altaisk State University, Gorno-Altaisk, Russian Federation
Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch, Department of history and culture of Central Asia, the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation
Queen’s University Belfast
Altai State University
School of Archaeology
Kostanay Regional University named after A. Baitursynov
International Institute for Central Asian Studies
Archaeological Expertise LLC
Goethe University Frankfurt
Toraighyrov university
E. A. Buketov Karaganda University
Gorno-Altaisk State University
Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch
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