A bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr isoscape of Mongolia: Implications for the reconstruction of past human and animal mobility.

ABSTRACT: Understanding past human and animal mobility is essential for reconstructing the social and cultural dynamics of ancient societies. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) offers a powerful tool to investigate provenance and movement. The bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr follows the underlying lithology, and increasing efforts have been made to map its spatial distribution across the landscape and produce 87Sr/86Sr isoscapes at local and more global scales. Mongolia's steppe landscapes have long supported highly mobile pastoralist societies whose movements were central to the formation of major polities, including Late Bronze Age cultures, Xiongnu first nomadic state and Mongol Empire. Despite the growing use of 87Sr/86Sr isotopic analysis to investigate past mobility, the lack of a robust 87Sr/86Sr

SUBMITTER: Le Corre M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12674565 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature