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New BAP book published! Three-Volume Shamanka II monograph out now!

Great news! A monumental achievement! After many years of blood, sweat and tears, we offer BIG congratulations to Editors Andrzej W. Weber, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Erin Jessup and all contributing authors on the publication of their new three-volume book! The book was published and funded by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Society). A BIG thank you to Series Editors Mayke Wagner and Dominic Hosnerfor all their hard work bringing this epic project to fruition. The monograph is [...]

2024-07-15T12:15:40-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

Linda-Helen Habermann passes BSc Thesis!

Congratulations to Linda-Helen Habermann (Freie Universität Berlin) for successfully passing her BSc Thesis! She was supervised by Prof. Pavel Tarasov in the Palaeontology division of the Institute of Geological Sciences, at Freie Universität Berlin. Her BAP-related thesis was entitled "Pollen analysis as an effective approach for stratigraphic and chronological correlation: A case study of two sediment cores from Lake Ochaul, Cis-Baikal Siberia". Both Reviewers gave her the highest Note 1. Read about her research here Congratulations to Linda, who [...]

2024-07-15T12:24:12-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , |

Jennifer Laughton passes Candidacy exam and receives Graduate Student Teaching Award!

Double whammy! Congratulations to Jennifer Laughton (Ph.D. student University of Alberta) on successfully passing her Candidacy exam on June 11th! Jennifer was also the recipient of a Graduate Student Teaching Award in recognition of excellence in the performance of teaching assistant duties at the University of Alberta. She was 1 of 14 students from the Faculty of Arts who received the award in April of this year. Way to go, Jen! Read about her research here [...]

2024-07-16T13:08:25-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Corrie Hyland participates in a public outreach event hosted by the Oxford Museum of Natural History

Corrie Hyland (BAP PhD student, University of Oxford) recently participated in a public outreach event hosted by the Oxford Museum of Natural History called “Museums Late Night: Water World”. The evening event was held on Friday, May 17 and was based on a wide range of research around the theme of freshwater. She had a great time hosting a stall and talking to people during the event! Corrie’s stall for this event included a poster on reservoir effect corrections [...]

2024-05-23T11:39:57-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Welcome our new BAP team member, Alexandra Vasilyeva

We have a new BAP team member! Alexandra Vasilyeva graduated from the Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and successfully defended her Master’s thesis on pollen analysis under the supervision of Dr. Larisa Savelieva. For her Master's research, Alexandra compared fossil pollen spectra, subrecent (relatively modern) spectra and vegetation composition of the Lake Ladoga Region, Russia, using numerical analyses to reconstruct the vegetation of the region applying pollen-based modelling methods. Her research interests include paleoecological and [...]

2024-05-14T13:45:39-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Corrie Hyland presents poster for the University of Oxford Social Science Division DPhil Welcome event

Corrie Hyland (BAP PhD student, University of Oxford) presented a poster entitled “Diving Deeper into Ancient Hunter Gatherer Diets: Amino Acid Stable isotope Approaches” for the University of Oxford Social Science Division DPhil Welcome event back in October 2023. The division hosts a poster session and drinks reception each year where incoming DPhil students from the Social Science Division learn what support the division offers them and see the wide range of research current DPhil students are working on. [...]

2024-05-09T11:09:18-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Team Berlin paper is top 10 most-cited papers published by Journal of Quaternary Science

Congratulations to Team Berlin as their paper is one of the top 10 most-cited papers published by Journal of Quaternary Science! Title: Not herbs and forbs alone: pollen-based evidence for the presence of boreal trees and shrubs in Cis-Baikal (Eastern Siberia) derived from the Last Glacial Maximum sediment of Lake Ochaul Authors: Kobe, F., Leipe, C., Shchetnikov, A.A., Hoelzmann, P., Gliwa, J., Olschewski, P., Goslar, T., Wagner, M., Bezrukova, E.V., Tarasov, P.E. This work was published as part of [...]

2024-04-29T11:04:58-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Aleksandra Krikunova article published in Journal of Quaternary International!

Congratulations to Aleksandra Krikunova and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Journal of Quaternary International! Title: Postglacial vegetation and climate change in the lake Onega region of eastern Fennoscandia derived from a radiocarbon-dated pollen record Authors: Krikunova, AI, Savelieva LA, Long T, Leipe C, Kobe F, Kostromina, NA, Vasilyeva AV, Tarasov, PE. Abstract:  With its numerous environmental archives stored in lake and peat sediments and relatively low human pressure, the Lake Onega region in eastern Fennoscandia [...]

2024-04-24T13:05:52-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

Corrie Hyland presents talk at UK Archaeological Science Conference in York

Corrie Hyland (BAP PhD student, University of Oxford) recently presented a talk entitled “Amino acid-specific approaches to radiocarbon freshwater reservoir corrections” at the UK Archaeological Science Conference. Photos are from her presentation, beautiful York, and two geese Corrie passed by regularly on her walk through York campus. : )

2024-04-24T13:20:03-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Christian Leipe presents his research at BAP monthly online research seminar (BAP MORS)

Our third BAP MORS of 2024! These seminars are a great way to learn and connect with our international team on a regular basis. March 27, 2024: Christian Leipe (Freie Universität Berlin). “Botanical records telling about plant use of hunter-fisher-gatherers and human environment interactions: BHAP results from Rebun Island (Hokkaido region, Japan)” Thank you to Christian for presenting his very interesting research!

2024-03-07T10:40:58-07:00Categories: News|Tags: |