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BioarcCaucasus : Mobility, migration and demographic change in the Bronze Age of North Caucasia
Third-party funded project |
Project title |
BioarcCaucasus : Mobility, migration and demographic change in the Bronze Age of North Caucasia |
Principal Investigator(s) |
Pichler, Sandra
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Project Members |
Gerling, Claudia Siliézar, Alicia Berger, Raphael Berezina, Natalia Alt, Kurt
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Organisation / Research unit |
Departement Umweltwissenschaften / Integrative Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (IPNA Schünemann) |
Project start |
01.04.2016 |
Probable end |
31.07.2018 |
Status |
Completed |
Abstract |
From the 19th century onwards, the Indo-European expansion has been a grand historical narrative telling that during the 3rd millennium BC pastoral nomads migrated in several waves from the Pontic steppes into the West. The image of highly mobile groups riding on horses, using wagons pulled by oxen, and burying their dead in monumental mounds is supported by the virtual absence of settlements in the pre-Caucasian steppe. It is, however, also biased by the knowledge of impressive historical invasions and 20th century political conflicts. The objective of the proposed study is to critically review the expansionist image of the Eurasian Bronze Age and to challenge its central paradigm – the existence of large scale migrations in the pre-Caucasian steppe. An international team of scholars from Russia, Germany, and Switzerland will conduct interdisciplinary research at the borderline of the humanities and sciences. The study will integrate archaeological investigations and modern bioarchaeological research on skeletal remains including stable isotope analyses of strontium, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen in human teeth and bones and anthropological procedures, such as palaeopathology and the analysis of skeletal activity markers. The proposed research will be conducted using a huge collection of well documented skeletal series, excavated and stored according to modern standards by the department of antiquities GUP „Nasledie“ in the Stavropol' Region, Russia. Their quantity and excellent preservation will ensure a representative selection based on archaeological and environmental criteria. Moreover, the study will draw on archaeological and modern specimens to establish isotope ratio comparative maps (isoscapes) of the chemical elements under investigation. The project will foster international collaboration, method development and disclose past mobility patterns using evidence that is independent of burial rituals, ideologies, and images derived from modern history. |
Keywords |
Bronze Age, Indo European expansion, Migration, Dietary reconstruction, Stabe isotope analyses, Caucasus region |
Financed by |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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Published results () |
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Autor(en) |
Titel |
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Erschienen in |
Art der Publikation |
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4216723 |
Knipper, Corina; Reinhold, Sabine; Gresky, Julia; Belinskiy, Andrej; Alt, Kurt W. |
Economic strategies at Bronze Age and Early Iron Age upland sites in the North Caucasus: Archaeological and stable isotope investigations |
978-1-138-30858-9 |
Isotopic investigations of pastoralism in prehistory |
Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.) |
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4216720 |
Reinhold, Sabine; Gresky, Julia; Berezina, Natalia; Kantorovich, Anatoly R.; Knipper, Corina; Maslov, Vladimir E.; Petrenko, Vladimira G.; Alt, Kurt W.; Belinsky, Andrey B. |
Contextualising Innovation. Cattle Owners and Wagon Drivers in the North Caucasus and Beyond |
978-1-78570-724-7 |
Appropriating Innovations: Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia, 5000-1500 BCE |
Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.) |
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4498561 |
Wang, Chuan-Chao; Reinhold, Sabine; Kalmykov, Alexey; Wissgott, Antje; Brandt, Guido; Jeong, Choongwon; Cheronet, Olivia; Ferry, Matthew; Harney, Eadaoin; Keating, Denise; Mallick, Swapan; Rohland, Nadin; Stewardson, Kristin; Kantorovich, Anatoly R.; Maslov, Vladimir E.; Petrenko, Vladimira G.; Erlikh, Vladimir R.; Atabiev, Biaslan Ch.; Magomedov, Rabadan G.; Kohl, Philipp L.; Alt, Kurt W.; Pichler, Sandra L.; Gerling, Claudia; Meller, Harald; Vardanyan, Benik; Yeganyan, Larisa; Rezepkin, Alexey D.; Mariaschk, Dirk; Berezina, Natalia; Gresky, Julia; Fuchs, Katharina; Knipper, Corina; Schiffels, Stephan; Balanovska, Elena; Balanovsky, Oleg; Mathieson, Iain; Higham, Thomas; Berezin, Yakov B.; Buzhilova, Alexandra; Trifonov, Viktor; Pinhasi, Ron; Belinskij, Andrej B.; Reich, David; Hansen, Svend; Krause, Johannes; Haak, Wolfgang |
Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions |
2041-1723 |
Nature Communications |
Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) |
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4605066 |
Knipper, Corina; Reinhold, Sabine; Gresky, Julia; Berezina, Nataliya; Gerling, Claudia; Pichler, Sandra L.; Buzhilova, Alexandra P.; Kantorovich, Anatoly R.; Maslov, Vladimir E.; Petrenko, Vladimira G.; Lyakhov, Sergey V.; Kalmykov, Alexey A.; Belinskiy, Andrey B.; Hansen, Svend; Alt, Kurt W. |
Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus |
1932-6203 |
PLoS ONE |
Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) |
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4622153 |
Siliézar, Alicia; Gerling, Claudia; Knipper, Corina; Reinhold, Sabine; Berezina, Natalia; Kalmykov, Alexej A.; Belinski, Andrej; Hansen, Svend; Pichler, Sandra L. |
Analysen stabiler Isotope zur Ernährungsrekonstruktion von bronzezeitlichen Individuen aus Kurgan 2, Ipatovo, Nordkaukasus, Russland |
1420-4835 |
Bulletin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie |
Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) |
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Cooperations () |
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Kreditinhaber |
Kooperationspartner |
Institution |
Laufzeit - von |
Laufzeit - bis |
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3571716 |
Pichler, Sandra |
Hansen, Svend |
DAI Berlin - Eurasia Department |
01.04.2016 |
31.03.2018 |
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3571717 |
Pichler, Sandra |
Buzhilova, Alexandra |
Lomonosov University Moscow - Anuchin Research Institute |
01.04.2016 |
31.03.2018 |
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3491821 |
Pichler, Sandra |
Knipper, Corina |
Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie Mannheim |
01.10.2015 |
31.03.2018 |
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3227138 |
Pichler, Sandra |
Krause, Johannes, Director |
Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte Jena |
01.01.2015 |
30.06.2020 |
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3703496 |
Pichler, Sandra |
Belinsky, Andrej, Head of GUP Nasledie |
Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Stavropol |
01.04.2016 |
31.03.2018 |
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