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Welcome our new BAP team member, Dr. Jana Gliwa!

We have a new BAP team member! Dr. Pavel Tarasov introduces her to the team: Let me introduce a new member of the BAP Berlin team - Dr. Jana Gliwa. Last year, Jana accomplished her PhD project with the highest possible note (Summa cum laude) and applied for a 3-year post-doctoral project, which was granted by the DFG. She will start this BAP-associated project in 2022. Dr. Jana Gliwa is a post-doctoral researcher currently based at the Eurasia Department [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-08-20T10:32:40-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Tarasov, Gliwa|

New BAP lab in Irkutsk!

“Spirtovka” is no longer holding our BAP collections! The new and much improved lab in Irkutsk is a welcome addition for all involved! It will likely be called “Stolovaia”, because the space was used before as a student cafeteria. Here is our long-time BAP collaborator, Mr. Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, at Stolovaia.

Andrea Hiob2021-08-18T14:55:46-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: bazalii, Weber|

Dr. Andrzej Weber presents talk in Usol’e-Sibirskoye, Russia!

Dr. Andrzej Weber recently presented a talk in the city of Usol’e-Sibirskoye near Irkutsk, Russia. The talk was entitled “30 years of collaborative Russian–Canadian archaeological research on Lake Baikal”. The talk went well and Dr. Weber was featured in a television interview! Link to interview: https://youtu.be/8oxyl2s5Yu0?t=766

Andrea Hiob2021-08-20T10:32:07-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Weber|

Rick Schulting and Paula Reimer article published in Radiocarbon

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and BAP Advisory Board member Dr. Paula Reimer (and colleagues) on their new paper published in Radiocarbon! Title: Millet consumption in Siberia prior to Mid-Second Millennium BC? A review of recent developments Authors: Svetlana V. Svyatko, Rick J. Schulting, Dmitriy Papin, Paula J. Reimer Abstract: In this paper we discuss recent developments in documenting the spread of millet across the Eurasian steppes. We emphasize that, despite a recent proposal that millet consumption in [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-08-20T10:50:16-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Schulting, Reimer|

Dr. Rick Schulting article published in Journal of Archaeological Science

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and co-authors on the publication of their paper in Journal of Archaeological Science! Title: Subsistence shift and socio-economic response to cultural and climate changes aong north-central Iberian megalithic groups Authors: Fern´andez-Crespo, J. Ordo˜no, R.J. Schulting Abstract: The insufficient attention traditionally paid to the complex mortuary biographies of megalithic graves has long obscured a significant amount of synchronic and diachronic information. The Rioja Alavesa region of north-central Iberia holds a number of megalithic graves [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-08-20T11:11:31-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Schulting|

Franziska Kobe article published in Quaternary International

Some great news from Pavel Tarasov in Berlin! Congratulations to Pavel Tarasov, Franziska Kobe, Larissa Savelieva, Christian Leipe and all co-authors on the publication of their recent on the publication of their recent article in the Quaternary International! Title: Lateglacial and Holocene changes in vegetation and human subsistence around Lake Zhizhitskoye, East European midlatitudes, derived from radiocarbon-dated pollen and archaeological records Authors: Tarasov PE, Savelieva LA, Kobe F, Korotkevich BS, Long T, Kostromina NA, Leipe C. Abstract: The numerous lake and [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-07-26T13:49:12-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Kobe, Tarasov, Leipe|

Vladimir Bazaliiskii paper published in Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University (Geoarchaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology Series) 2021 [in Russian]!

Congratulations to Mr. Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii on the recent publication of his article in Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University (Geoarchaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology Series) 2021 [in Russian]! Title: Morphological Analysis of the Bone Serrated Points from Early Neolithic Complexes of Shamanka 2 Burial Ground Authors: Bazaliiskii VI, Tyutrin AA, Weber AW Abstract: An analysis of the bone serrated points from the burial complexes of Shamanka 2 burial ground is presented. The origin of the collection makes it [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-07-26T11:23:05-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Bazaliiskii, Weber|

Franziska Kobe presents Guest Online Lecture for Palynology Short Talks!

Franziska Kobe, BAP PhD Student at Freie Universitaet Berlin, recently presented a guest lecture for Palynology Short Talks – Session 11: Vegetation History. This talk was part of the student research showcase and infographic and lightning talk sessions, sponsored by AASP-TPS and BES Palaeoecology Group. The presentation was on May 18th and entitled "Investigating the possibility of boreal tree taxa presence in the CIS Baikal (Eastern Siberia) during the LGM using pollen records". This presentation highlighted Franziska's PhD project [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-06-16T13:15:34-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Kobe|

Olga I. Goriunova paper published in Archaeological Research in Asia, June 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Olga I Goriunova on the recent publication of her article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Title: Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer mortuary practices in the Little Sea microregion of Lake Baikal, part 1: Early Neolithic Authors: Goriunova OI, Novikov AG, Turkin GV, Weber AW Abstract: Archaeological research on Cis-Baikal Early Neolithic mortuary practices has traditionally focused on the Kitoi mortuary tradition with its rich materials known from several large cemeteries of the Angara Valley and Southwest Baikal. [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-05-31T11:11:41-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Weber, Goriunova, Novikov|

Christopher Bronk Ramsey paper published in Archaeological Research in Asia, March 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Bronk Ramsey on the recent publication of his article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Congratulations also to BAP co-authors Drs. Rick Schulting, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Olga I. Goriunova and Andrzej Weber. Title: Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia Authors: Bronk Ramsey C, Schulting RJ, Bazaliiskii VI, Goriunova OI, Weber AW Abstract: Hunter-gatherer archaeology typically focusses on the details of subsistence strategies and material culture and, in the [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-05-20T13:08:59-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Schulting, Bazaliiskii, Ramsey, Goriunova, Weber|