Corrie Hyland and Karolina Werens, our BAP PhD students from University fof Oxford, recently organized a BAP Symposium at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Portland, Oregon, March 29-April 2, 2023.

SYMPOSIUM  NORTHEAST ASIAN PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHER LIFEWAYS: MULTIDISCIPLINARY, INDIVIDUAL LIFE HISTORY APPROACH

Chairs: Corrie Hyland and Karolina Werens

Andrzej Weber: Discussant

Andrzej Weber and Olga Goriunova: Early Bronze Age Cemeteries on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Their History and Patterns of Use

Corrie Hyland, Rick Schulting, Amy Styring and Andrzej Weber: Radiocarbon Dates and Freshwater Resource Use within Prehistoric Diets

Ian Scharlotta: Expanding Individual Life Histories to Large-Scale Dietary Comparisons of Early Neolithic Cemetery Populations at Lokomotiv and Shamanka II, Cis-Baikla, Siberia

Jennifer Laughton: Bite into This: Interproximal Wear Facets in Middle-Holocene Hunter-Gatherers

Karolina Werens, Rick Schulting, John Pouncett, Andrzej Weber and Christophe Snoeck: A Multi-isotope Approach to Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Microregional Connectivity in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Southern Siberia

Rick Schulting, Lucy Koster, Andrea Czermak, Gunita Zarina and Ilga Zagorska: Linking Life and Death at the Early–Mid–Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery of Zvejnieki, Lativa, Northern Europe

Angela Lieverse, Rick Schulting, Vladimir Bazaliiskii, Artur Kharinskii and Andrzej Weber: Hunter-Gatherer Violence in the Middle Holocene Baikal Region: A Probable Massacre at Shamanka II

Ruairidh Macleod, Rick Schulting, Angela Lieverse, Andrzej Weber and Eske Willerslev: Ancient Genomics of Hunter-Gatherers at Lake Baikal: Shamanka II Case Study

Yucheng Wang, Bianca De Sanctis, Ruairidh Macleod, Pavel Tarasov and Eske Willerslev: Sediment Environmental DNA (eDNA) Analysis of Lake Ochaul

Andrzej Weber: Discussant

A HUGE thank you to Corrie and Karolina for their hard work and time spent organizing our BAP Symposium!