Returning to Oleni' ostrov: Social, Economic, and Skeletal Dimensions of a Boreal Forest Mesolithic Cemetery

Jacobs, Ken

doi:10.1006/jaar.1995.1018

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“…Samples of aBOO were also shown to display craniometrical affinities with ancient populations of West Siberia and the Altai, in line with the ancient genetic data presented here [42]. The ‘admixed’ nature of the aUzPo and aBOO populations is supported by the apparent random distribution of mtDNA lineages within the corresponding graveyards, i.e., there is no structure in the sites reflecting the ‘Western’ or ‘Eastern’ origins of the buried individuals [26].…”

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“…At the archaeological level also, the Siberian connection with aUzPo is less clear. The material culture present in the burials of aUz links these populations with the neighboring regions in the West but also in the East and South-East [26], [61]. As for Siberia, it has undergone a complicated early and mid-Holocene migration history due to repeated environmental changes [62].…”

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“…With the glacial retreat at the end of the Ice Age (∼11,500 yBP) [21], small foraging groups progressed into NEE from southern periglacial refuges [22]–[23]. As climatic conditions improved in the early Holocene (8,000–10,000 yBP), the first human settlements appeared in the Kola Peninsula [24], and foraging activities intensified in the steppe-forest zone of Northern Europe leading to the widespread establishment of complex Mesolithic societies of fishermen and hunter-gatherers [23], [25]–[26]. At the same time, Western Europe and CE were undergoing the Neolithic transition, during which an agricultural lifestyle spread rapidly, largely due to favorable climatic and ecological conditions.…”

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North East Europe harbors a high diversity of cultures and languages, suggesting a complex genetic history. Archaeological, anthropological, and genetic research has revealed a series of influences from Western and Eastern Eurasia in the past. While genetic data from modern-day populations is commonly used to make inferences about their origins and past migrations, ancient DNA provides a powerful test of such hypotheses by giving a snapshot of the past genetic diversity. In order to better understand the dynamics that have shaped the gene pool of North East Europeans, we generated and analyzed 34 mitochondrial genotypes from the skeletal remains of three archaeological sites in northwest Russia. These sites were dated to the Mesolithic and the Early Metal Age (7,500 and 3,500 uncalibrated years Before Present). We applied a suite of population genetic analyses (principal component analysis, genetic distance mapping, haplotype sharing analyses) and compared past demographic models through coalescent simulations using Bayesian Serial SimCoal and Approximate Bayesian Computation. Comparisons of genetic data from ancient and modern-day populations revealed significant changes in the mitochondrial makeup of North East Europeans through time. Mesolithic foragers showed high frequencies and diversity of haplogroups U (U2e, U4, U5a), a pattern observed previously in European hunter-gatherers from Iberia to Scandinavia. In contrast, the presence of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups C, D, and Z in Early Metal Age individuals suggested discontinuity with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and genetic influx from central/eastern Siberia. We identified remarkable genetic dissimilarities between prehistoric and modern-day North East Europeans/Saami, which suggests an important role of post-Mesolithic migrations from Western Europe and subsequent population replacement/extinctions. This work demonstrates how ancient DNA can improve our understanding of human population movements across Eurasia. It contributes to the description of the spatio-temporal distribution of mitochondrial diversity and will be of significance for future reconstructions of the history of Europeans.

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“…This is paralleled by materials from the Late Mesolithic cemetery at Oleny Ostrov (Onezhskoe lake). Jakobs (1995) attempted to separate its burials on the basis of the degree of social status. He evaluated the correlations between this criterion, on the one hand, and robusticity, health status, and diet, on the other.…”

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Upper Palaeolithic and Late Stone Age Human Diet

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2005

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Undoubtedly modern mankind is an omnivorous species. Nevertheless, types of diet changed at the time of anthropogenesis. The Upper Palaeolithic period is the crucial time because of the appearance of anatomically modern humans in Europe. The main goal in this period investigation is to find the Neanderthal man-Upper Palaeolithic man diet distinction. A sharp early Holocene rise in humidity and temperature and melting of the permafrost resulted in the complete destruction of traditional migration routes, campsite losses, and the flora and fauna of inland territories changing. All these factors affected nutrition patterns, too. The comparison of the different Mesolithic and Neolithic groups' diet patterns allow us to discuss problems of the influence of cultural and ecological factors. The bone tissue chemical concentrations (Ca, Zn, Sr, Cu) from Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic burials are considered to reconstruct individual and group patterns of nutrition. The results of the atomic absorption method were used.

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“…However, Jacobs (1995) reanalyzed the same cemetery and argued that the association of certain individuals with particular grave goods may be more directly related to the living community's over-compensation of an untimely death with exaggerated expressions of grief rather than the exact social wealth of the individual (Parker Pearson 2001: 77).…”

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Mortuary ritual and social change in neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland

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Returning to Oleni' ostrov: Social, Economic, and Skeletal Dimensions of a Boreal Forest Mesolithic Cemetery

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Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of North East Europe

Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of North East Europe

Upper Palaeolithic and Late Stone Age Human Diet

Mortuary ritual and social change in neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland

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