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Recent article from Drs. D. Temple, G. Zarina, I. Zagorska and A. Macāne published in Science Advances!

Big congratulations to Drs. Daniel Temple, Gunita Zarina, Ilga Zagorska and Aija Macāne on the recent publication of their article in Science Advances! Title: Biomechanical evidence for occupational specialization in Mesolithic-Neolithic hunter-gatherers from Zvejnieki, Latvia Authors: Daniel Temple, Gunita Zarina, Ilga Zagorska and Aija Macāne Abstract: Mesolithic cemeteries have greater dimensionality and scale that reflect emerging social complexity following the Upper Paleolithic. The Zvejnieki cemetery dates between the Middle Mesolithic and Late Neolithic, is associated with a persistent [...]

Andrea Hiob2026-07-25T15:06:58-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Temple, Zagorska, Zariņa, Macane|

Recent article from Dr. Ruairidh Macleod published in Nature!

Big congratulations to Dr. Ruairidh Macleod and all co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Nature! Title: Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago Authors: Ruairidh Macleod, Frederik V. Seersholm, Bianca De Sanctis, Angela Lieverse, Adrian Timpson, Rick Schulting, Jesper T. Stenderup, Charleen Gaunitz, Lasse Vinner, Olga Ivanovna Goriunova, Vladimir Ivanovich Bazaliiskii, Sergei V. Vasilyev, Erin Jessup, Yucheng Wang, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Mark G. Thomas, Russell Corbett-Detig, Astrid K. N. Iversen, Andrzej W. [...]

Andrea Hiob2026-06-18T12:38:49-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Ramsey, Schulting, Bazaliiskii, Goriunova, Lieverse, Weber, Willerslev, Macleod, Jessup|

Drs. Alexei G. Novikov, Olga I. Goriunova and Andrzej W. Weber Tuakhane 9 monograph published!

Congratulations to Drs. Alexei Novikov, Olga Goriunova and Andrzej Weber on the recent publication of their monograph by Irkutsk State University Press! А. Г. НОВИКОВ, О. И. ГОРЮНОВА, А. В. ВЕБЕР: Могильник Туаханэ IX на побережье Байкала: неолит – бронзовый век. Иркутск: ИГУ. 2025. 320 сс. A.G. Novikov, O.I. Goriunova, A.W. Weber: The Tuakhane IX cemetery on the coast of Baikal: Neolithic – Bronze Age. Irkutsk: IGU. 2025. 320 p. SUMMARY This monograph is dedicated to culture-historical analysis [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-12-09T10:31:51-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Goriunova, Novikov, Weber|

New BAP publication from Dr. Pavel Tarasov and team!

Dr. Pavel Tarasov shares some great BAP news below!: The article on Lake Nurskoye from Olkhon Island has been published open access. We would like to share it with the rest of the BAP Team. Title: "Environmental and cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal Region reflect hemispheric-scale changes in temperature and atmospheric circulation over the past 8800 years" by Pavel E. Tarasov, Franziska Kobe, Christian Leipe, Aleksandr A. Shchetnikov, Elena V. Bezrukova, Linda-Helen Habermann, Philipp Hoelzmann, Moritz Nykamp, [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-11-24T11:51:20-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Shchetnikov, Hoelzmann, Bezrukova, Habermann, Long, Krikunova, Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner, Gliwa|

Corrie Hyland hired as Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Seeing the Dead Project!

Dr. Corrie Hyland has begun working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Stable Isotopes at the University of York for the Seeing the Dead project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of UK Research and Innovation. The Seeing the Dead project investigates the funerary custom, attested in Roman Yorkshire in the 3rd and 4th centuries CE, of pouring liquid gypsum over the bodies of adults and children in coffins of wood, stone, or lead before burial. The [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-11-17T11:49:20-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Hyland|

Linda Habermann earns Master’s degree!

Congratulations to Linda Habermann who successfully defended her BAP-related Master’s thesis on October 15, 2025! Linda is a Master’s of Geological Sciences student at Freie Universität Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Pavel Tarasov. Great news from Pavel: Linda made a very successful defence of her Master’s Project yesterday, 15th October 2025, and received highest grades for the written thesis and oral presentation. Title: Vegetation history and environmental changes on Olkhon Island of Lake Baikal during the Younger Dryas [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-11-17T10:22:49-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Tarasov, Habermann|

Jennifer Laughton presents her research at recent CABA meetings

PhD Candidate Jennifer Laughton presented a portion of her thesis research at the 52nd Annual Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology (CABA) Meeting, held in Victoria, BC, November 5th-8th, 2025. Her talk, "Dental sex estimation equations and their applicability to adolescent archaeological skeletal remains (Cis-Baikal)", was a part of the session titled "The Messy Middle: the Complexities and Richness that Accompanies Working with Adolescents". When not participating in the conference sessions or events, Jen experienced the beauty and the rain [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-11-17T11:50:40-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Laughton|

Dr. Corrie Hyland successfully defends PhD dissertation!

Congratulations to Dr. Corrie Hyland, BAP PhD student at University of Oxford, for successfully defending her PhD dissertation on August 19th, 2025! Title: Extricating the importance of freshwater resource use within prehistoric diets: combining the power of bulk and compound specific stable isotope analysis with established freshwater reservoir effects on radiocarbon dates Supervisors: Dr Amy Styring, Prof Rick Schulting and Prof Andrzej Weber Congratulations to Dr. Hyland! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors! Read about Corrie’s [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-11-17T10:23:52-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Hyland|

Pavel Tarasov, Christian Leipe and Franziska Kobe article published in Quaternary Environments and Humans! Plus MORE!

Great News from Dr. Pavel Tarasov and the Freie Universität Berlin team! Thank you to Pavel for sharing the fantastische news below: The final open access version of our article "Reflections of Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age environments, land use and pile dwelling activities in a new palynological record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria" is now available online and published in Quaternary Environments and Humans. Pavel Tarasov, Christian Leipe, Franziska Kobe are the co-authors. See buttons [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-07-08T12:12:38-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner, Gliwa, Krikunova, Shchetnikov, Bezrukova|

Jennifer Laughton presents her research at BAP monthly online research seminar (BAP MORS)

Our second BAP MORS of 2025! These seminars are a great way to learn and connect with our international team on a regular basis. April 1, 2025: Jennifer Laughton (University of Alberta).“Dental Sex Estimation: creating regression formulae for the Cis-Baikal region” Thank you to Jennifer for presenting her interesting research!

Andrea Hiob2025-03-31T12:59:09-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Laughton|