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Sagan-Zaba II and Lake Baikal lifeways

Sagan-Zaba II

Repeated cove occupations preserve seal and other animal remains, tools, and changing food practices. Different depositional phases capture distinct uses of the lakeshore.

Lakeshore settlement, hunting, fishing, pastoralism, fauna, and chronology context Approximately 7000 BCE-1200 CE within this collection; later use summarized separately Stratigraphy, fauna, radiocarbon comparisons, isotope measurements, tools, and environmental study Sagan-Zaba II; approximate archaeological or museum orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, religious, or sovereignty boundary.
Resumen

Paisajes, comunidades e instituciones cambiantes

Ríos, lagos, bosques, estepas, montañas y conexiones árticas

Lake ice, boats, coves, fish, seals, wild ungulates, and later herding linked changing communities.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Food processing and travel can be investigated; political organization and language cannot be inferred from animal proportions.

Transformación posterior, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Baikal has living cultural significance. Food histories do not adjudicate modern Buryat or other identities, and reservoir effects require careful explanation.

Food seal remains occur through many phases

Their frequency is affected by recovery and deposition.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1]
Chronology aquatic dates can appear too old

Offsets vary and need contextual correction.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S2]
Sequence repeated use with mixing in some strata

Continuity of place does not prove continuity of identity.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1] [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Early cove use

    Terrestrial-animal dates frame early activity.

  2. Hunting and fishing continue in varied forms

    Faunal assemblages record selected episodes, not every year.

  3. Pastoral practices enter the record

    Some mixed layers complicate the relationship between foragers and herders.

  4. Excavation and dating reveal biases

    Comparisons exposed freshwater old-carbon offsets.

Cultura e idioma

Medios de vida, evidencias materiales y límites de la evidencia lingüística

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • No directly attested local language

Familia lingüística: Not recoverable from material styles alone

Seal hunting

Mixed deposits

Aquatic dating effects

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Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

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  1. C1

    Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia

    Jacobs et al., Nature · Peer-reviewed dating study · 2019

  2. C2

    Long-distance exchange of obsidian in the High Arctic during the Early Holocene

    Pitulko et al., Antiquity · Primary obsidian-provenancing study · 2019

  3. C3

    A freshwater old carbon offset in Lake Baikal, Siberia and problems with the radiocarbon dating of archaeological sediments

    Nomokonova et al., Quaternary International · Peer-reviewed reservoir-effect study · 2013

  4. C4
  5. C5

    Reindeer Imagery in the Making at Ust'-Polui in Arctic Siberia

    Losey et al., Cambridge Archaeological Journal · Peer-reviewed image and animal-relations study · 2021

  6. C6

    The Indigenous World 2026: Russia

    International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs · Indigenous-rights organization report · 2026

  7. C7

    Uyuk Tarlak inscription

    Uppsala University, Database of Turkic Runiform Inscriptions · Reviewed inscription catalogue · Current academic database

  8. C8

    Baikal Archaeology Project

    University of Alberta · University archaeological project · Current project resource

  9. C9
  10. S1

    A 9,000 Year History of Seal Hunting on Lake Baikal, Siberia: The Zooarchaeology of Sagan-Zaba II

    Nomokonova et al., PLOS ONE · Peer-reviewed zooarchaeological study · 2015

  11. S2

    A freshwater old carbon offset in Lake Baikal, Siberia and problems with the radiocarbon dating of archaeological sediments

    Nomokonova et al., Quaternary International · Peer-reviewed reservoir-effect study · 2013

  12. S3

    Baikal Archaeology Project

    University of Alberta · University archaeological project · Current project resource

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Revisión editorial: 19 octubre 2026