Human diet and lifeways during late Bronze and early Iron age (pre-empire of Xiongnu time) of Western Transbaikalia: Reconstruction by С-N isotopes

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2025.100593

A.M. Khubanova , V.B. Khubanov , D.A. Miyagashev , Ya.V. Dikiy , B.A. Bazarov , O.V. Savchuk , I.V. Smoleva

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Abstract

Western Transbaikalia is the northern edge of the Eastern steppes zone. Archeological sites of the Late Bronze Age in Western Transbaikalia, which was the peripheral zone of the expansion of the tribes of Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age (ca. 1300-300 BCE) is affiliated with Khirigsuur and Slab Grave cultures, the economic basis for them was pastoralism. Here, we reveal the diet and lifeways of the population of the Khirigsuur and Slab Grave cultures in Western Transbaikalia by analyzing carbon and nitrogen isotopes of bone collagen from human and animal remains from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age archaeological complexes of Western Transbaikalia. The results of our study showed that Khirigsuur and Slab Grave cultures population practiced the husbandry of domesticated livestock. We identified that by the Xiongnu period (ca. 200 BCE – 250 CE) the dietary trend of the population diversified: in addition to meat and dairy products it included crops and freshwater fish. The isotopic characteristics of herbivorous domestic animals indicated that their feeding during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age and Xiongnu time in Western Transbaikalia were similar.

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.