Ust-Ishim Bone: Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics as the Source of the Paleontological, Paleoecological, and Paleoanthropological Information

V. I. Silaev, S. M. Slepchenko, A. A. Bondarev, I. V. Smoleva, D. V. Kiselеva, S. N. Shanina, O. V. Martirosyan, E. M. Tropnikov, A. F Khazov

Abstract


Ust-Ishim man was the representative of one of the ancestral groups of the Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. The first results of a comprehensive mineralogical and geochemical study of fossil bones using a wide range of physical, chemical and physico-chemical methods: thermal analysis, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, atomic-force microscopy, nitrogen capillary condensation method, X-ray fluorescence analysis, ISP-MS, gas chromatography method, amino acid chromatography analysis’s, X-ray microprobe method, X-ray diffraction method, Raman and infrared spectroscopy, isotope spectrometry are presented in this article. The studied fragment of the skeleton is of higher preservation rate than the common bone detritus of this age and even the fossils of younger Pleistocene animals that allowed determining almost all its primary properties. The unique preservation presumably was provided by the favorable environment and a special way the Ust-Ishim man originally was buried. Results of study of the chemical and mineral composition of the bone fossils allowed a reconstruction of the Ust-Ishim man life history.

Keywords


Ust-Ishim bone; physical; physio-chemical and chemical research methods; mineralogical; geochemical; paleontological; paleoanthropological; paleoecological

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/psu.geol.16.1.1

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