Example of seal bone clusters found at Sagan-Zaba II (a—layer VB, b—layer IVA).

<p>Photographs by A. Weber.</p

Study area: a. Lake Baikal, Russian Federation; b. archaeological sites mentioned in the text.

<p>Study area: a. Lake Baikal, Russian Federation; b. archaeological sites mentioned in the text.</p

Examples of artifacts found at Sagan-Zaba II.

<p>Numbers 1 and 3 are from Late Holocene layers IIIB-I; 2, 5, and 7 are from Middle Holocene layers V-IV; 4 and 9 are from Early to Middle Holocene layers VII-VI (photographs by T. Nomokonova).</p

Seal seasonality data at Sagan-Zaba II by time period.

<p>Each bar represents a season of death estimate for a single individual.</p

Seal age groups at Sagan-Zaba II.

<p>A: age groups based on canine incremental structures using female age of maturity; B: age groups based on canine incremental structures using male age of maturity; C: age groups based on epiphyseal fusion of long bones.</p

Photograph of Sagan-Zaba from the hill to the north of the cove, with the field camp tents visible on the valley floor.

<p>Photograph by A. Weber.</p

Plot of the relative abundances of seals, wild ungulates, domesticated ungulates, and fish at Sagan-Zaba II by analytical unit.

<p>NISP values for each group were used to calculate the percentages shown.</p

Faunal remains from Sagan-Zaba II trenches 4b-c.

<p>Faunal remains from Sagan-Zaba II trenches 4b-c.</p

Map of Sagan-Zaba cove with locations of rock art panel and trenches (#1–3, 4a-c, and 5) indicated, and a stratigraphic column of trench 4c.

<p>Detailed description of site stratigraphy is provided in Nomokonova (2011) and Nomokonova et al. (2013b).</p

Sagan-Zaba II chronology following [47].

<p>ETI is estimated time interval calculated (where possible) from multiple radiocarbon dates from each layer.</p><p>Sagan-Zaba II chronology following [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0128314#pone.0128314.ref047" target="_blank">47</a>].</p