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Multilayer geoarcheological object Sagan-Zaba II on Lake Baikal: archeology and paleoecology

Irkutsk State University,Irkutsk

Editor-in-chief

E.A. Lipnina

Abstract

The purpose of this monograph is to disseminate the new archaeological materials from the Sagan-Zaba II camp site, located in a cove of the same name on the west coast of Lake Baikal, about 12 km SW of the mouth of the Anga River and 154 km NE of the Irkutsk city. The three excavation seasons (2006–2008) carried out at Sagan-Zaba by the Russian–Canadian archaeological expedition provided new knowledge regarding the complex cultural processes taking place within the Cis-Baikal region during the Holocene as well as new data to re-evaluate and redefine the chronology established earlier based on only very few radiocarbon dates. The monograph employs a range of scientific methods such as radiocarbon dating, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology as well as the analysis of the excavated collection of artefacts.