Shamanka II and Baikal burial and dating contexts - History, Government, Language, and Sources

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Deep History of Siberia: Rivers, Forests, and Arctic Worlds
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Shamanka II and Baikal burial and dating contexts

Shamanka II, Kultuk Bay orientation

Selected graves illuminate burial practice and dietary variation. Detailed chronology shows why human and associated animal samples need careful contextual assessment.

Hunter-fisher cemetery, mortuary practice, dietary evidence, dating, and human-remains stewardship context Early Neolithic phases approximately 5600-4600 BCE; model estimates vary Excavated burial contexts, grave objects, radiocarbon models, stable isotopes, and anatomical associations Shamanka II, Kultuk Bay orientation; approximate archaeological or museum orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, religious, or sovereignty boundary.
Overview

Landscapes, communities, and changing institutions

Rivers, lakes, forests, steppe, mountains, and Arctic connections

Lake and river food resources, mobility, shared burial places, and seasonal work shaped local lives.

Political organization and community scale

Mortuary differences may illuminate social relationships, but graves are not a complete census or proof of one hierarchy.

Later transformation, living heritage, and modern reception

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Terminology pottery-using hunter-fisher Neolithic

Neolithic does not automatically mean farming or one people.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1]
Dating sample association matters

Bone and tooth discrepancies require more than a blanket correction.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1] [S2]
Ethics a cemetery is not a population census

Burials cannot establish a visitor's ancestry or membership.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S2] [S3]
Historical sequence

A concise, sourced timeline

These milestones are orientation points, not a complete history.

  1. Cemetery is used in distinct phases

    Modeled dates distinguish episodes rather than continuous occupation.

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  2. People and selected objects are buried

    Funerary inclusion does not describe every community member.

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  3. Excavation documents graves

    Recovery produced detailed but selective mortuary evidence.

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  4. Chronological models are tested

    Reservoir effects and anatomical associations receive renewed scrutiny.

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Culture and language

Livelihoods, material evidence, and language limits

Languages named in this profile

  • No directly attested local language

Language family: Not recoverable from material styles alone

Hunter-fisher communities

Mortuary evidence

Reservoir effects

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Sources used for this page

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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

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  10. S1

    A 350 14C yr discrepancy between bone and tooth dates from the same grave at the Early Neolithic cemetery of Shamanka II

    Schulting et al., Radiocarbon · Peer-reviewed dating and context study · 2025

  11. S2

    Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal

    Bronk Ramsey et al., Archaeological Research in Asia · Peer-reviewed project publication · 2021

  12. S3

    Baikal Archaeology Project

    University of Alberta · University archaeological project · Current project resource

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Editorial review: October 19, 2026

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