N. I. Shishlina

TL;DR: It is shown that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and Asia.

TL;DR: For the Bronze Age Catacomb cultures of the North-West Caspian steppe area in Russia, there is a conflict between the traditional relative archaeological chronology and the chronology based on radiocarbon dates as discussed by the authors, which can be explained largely by the fact that most dates have been obtained on human bone material and are subject to 14C reservoir effects.

TL;DR: Combined analysis of paleoenvironment, 13C, 15N, and 14C in bone, including paired dating of human bone and terrestrial materials (herbivore bone, wood, charcoal, and textile) has been performed on many samples excavated from Russian kurgan graves.

TL;DR: In this article, the size of the reservoir offset for the studied cultures is discussed, and paired dating of human bone and associated terrestrial samples is performed for the Lola, Krivaya and Babino cultures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed that the older the sample, the lower the δ 13C and δ 15N values of human and animal bone collagen from several steppe Bronze Age cultures.