Dietary ¹⁴C reservoir effects and the chronology of prehistoric burials at Sakhtysh, central European Russia.

ABSTRACT: We present a robust radiocarbon (¹⁴C) chronology for burials at Sakhtysh, in European Russia, where nearly 180 inhumations of Lyalovo and Volosovo pottery-using hunter-gatherer-fishers represent the largest known populations of both groups. Past dating attempts were restricted by poor understanding of dietary ¹⁴C reservoir effects (DREs). We developed a DRE correction approach that uses multiple linear regression of differences in ¹⁴C, δ¹³C, and δ¹⁵N between bones and teeth of the same individuals to predict DREs of up to approximately 900 years. Our chronological model dates Lyalovo burials to the early fifth millennium BCE, and Volosovo burials to the mid-fourth to early third millennium. It reveals a change in the subsistence econom

SUBMITTER: Meadows J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10881043 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature