INTRODUCTION According to the commonly accepted “steppe hypothesis,” the initial
spread of Indo-European (IE) languages into both Europe and Asia took place with …

This paper summarises research on freshwater reservoir effects (FRE) in the Baikal region
and their impact on the radiocarbon dating of human remains. Varying relationships are …

Analyses of radiocarbon dates (all corrected for the freshwater reservoir effect) and
associated stable isotope values obtained from the skeletal remains of~ 650 individuals …

Modern humans have inhabited the Lake Baikal region since the Upper Paleolithic, though
the precise history of its peoples over this long time span is still largely unknown. Here, we …

Human parvovirus B19 (B19V) is a ubiquitous human pathogen associated with a number of
conditions, such as fifth disease in children and arthritis and arthralgias in adults. B19V is …

Past research has greatly improved our understanding of palaeoenvironmental changes in
the Lake Baikal Region, but at the same time has indicated intra-regional variations in this …

Middle Holocene hunter—gatherers (HG) of the Cis-Baikal region, Eastern Siberia, display
substantial spatio-temporal variation in adaptive strategies highlighted by several cultural …

Hunter-gatherer archaeology typically focusses on the details of subsistence strategies and
material culture and, in the case of cemeteries, on various aspects of mortuary practices …

A data set of 116 AMS radiocarbon dates on human skeletal remains from an Early Neolithic
(c. 7500–6700 cal BP) Shamanka II cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia, and associated …

Trans-Baikal, the interior region just to the east of Siberia's Lake Baikal, has a fairly
extensive but largely unstudied archaeological record of human interaction with domestic …