NEWS | Baikal Archaeology Project

Great news coming out of Freie Universität Berlin!

Dr. Pavel Tarasov's team is getting it done! Christian Leipe and Pavel Tarasov spent the first 9 days of October in the Institute of Geochemistry, Irkutsk, working on the sediment cores from Lake Ochaul and collecting samples for the sediment aDNA analysis together with Elena Bezrukova, Sasha Shchetnikov and their team. Lena and Sasha helped a lot to make our work as smooth and successful as possible. Additional news from Dr. Pavel Tarasov during this time: A cooperation agreement [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-11-25T10:55:38-07:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Tarasov, Leipe, Kobe|

Christian Leipe article published in Science Advances

Congratulations to Christian Leipe and other BAP team members on their recent article published in Science Advances! Title: Discontinuous spread of millet agriculture in eastern Asia and prehistoric population dynamics Authors: Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE. Abstract: Although broomcorn and foxtail millet are among the earliest staple crop domesticates, their spread and impacts on demography remain controversial, mainly because of the use of indirect evidence. Bayesian modeling applied to a dataset of new and [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:13:45-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov, Wagner|

Svetlana Kostrova and Pavel Tarasov article published in Hydrological Processes

Congratulations to Svetlana Kostrova, colleague of Pavel Tarasov and friend of the BAP, on the recent publication of their article in Hydrological Processes! Dr. Kostrova is from the Institute of Geochemistry, Irkutsk and AWI-Potsdam, and the article discusses moisture origin and stable isotope characteristics of precipitation in the Irkutsk Region of southeast Siberia. The paper was first published 15 August 2019. Title: Moisture origin and stable isotope characteristics of precipitation in southeast Siberia Authors: Kostrova SS, Meyer H, Fernandoy [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-11-21T10:57:09-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Tarasov|

The Poseidon Adventure to Yuzhnyi Olenii Ostrov with Dr. Rick Schulting!

The Poseidon Adventure to Yuzhnyi Olenii Ostrov In late August Rick Schulting attended a workshop held in Petrozavodsk on the shores of Lake Onega in Karelia, NW Russia. The focus of the meeting was recent work carried out on archaeological remains from the island of Yuzhnyi Olenii Ostrov and the surrounding area. Yuzhnyi Olenii Ostrov is famous for the cemetery of the same name, with over 177 graves dating to the Mesolithic, many with abundant grave offerings. The site [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-09-10T12:54:25-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Schulting|

Victoria van der Haas explains how isotopes can be used to learn about the Paranthropus diet!

BAP PhD student Victoria van der Haas explains how isotopes can be used to learn about the Paranthropus diet in Stefan Milosavljevich's latest YouTube video: To see Victoria's BAP graduate student profiles, go here: https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/victoria-van-der-haas/?portfolioCats=5%2C6%2C7%2C8%2C9

Andrea Hiob2019-09-06T12:48:38-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: van der Haas|

Special Issue of Quaternary International with Pavel Tarasov as Guest Editor has been recently published!

Great news coming out of Germany! The new Special Issue of Quaternary International entitled "Climate change and human-environment interaction from Neolithic to historical times" with Pavel Tarasov as Guest Editor has been recently published. The Special Issue (Quaternary International 516 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.06.004 contains a number of interesting articles. Among them three articles represent research of the current BAP members and cooperation partners. Leipe, C., Kobe, F., Müller, S., 2019. Testing the performance of sodium polytungstate and lithium heteropolytungstate as non-toxic [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-07-19T09:28:27-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Lieverse, Bazaliiskii|

Victoria van der Haas interview featured on Episode 28 of the The Arch & Anth Podcast!

Victoria van der Haas, BAP PhD Candidate, is featured on Episode 28 of The Arch and Anth Podcast entitled "What is stable isotope analysis? What did prehistoric hunter-gatherers at Lake Baikal eat?" Link to homepage and to listen to podcast, Episode 28: https://archandanth.com/ From the The Arch and Anth Podcast webpage: Victoria van der Haas (University of Alberta) is a biological anthropologist and bioarchaeologist studying prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifestyles. A modern freshwater seal at Lake Baikal. On today’s episode, she talks [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-07-15T10:57:32-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|Tags: van der Haas|

Samantha Purchase first paper as lead author on BAP materials published in International Journal of Paleopathology!

Congratulations to Samantha Purchase, former BAP Master's student supervised by Dr. Angela Lieverse, on the publication of her first paper as lead author! The paper will appear in the September 2019 issue of the International Journal of Paleopathology, Volume 26, pages 22-26, and is now available online! Title: An innovative method to visualise mastoiditis using a hand-held X-ray system Authors: Samantha Purchase, Vladimir Bazaliiskii, Angela Lieverse ABSTRACT Objective: We explore the utility of using a hand-held X-ray system to [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:17:23-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Lieverse, Bazaliiskii|

Rebecca Bourgeois and Lauren Michelman interviewed by MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies documentary film team

University of Saskatchewan MA students, Rebecca Bourgeois and Lauren Michelman, were interviewed yesterday by the MacEwan University Bachelor of Communication Studies documentary film team that travelled to Siberia with the BAP crew. They are working in the lab in Irkutsk, Russia, and did a great job explaining their research projects! To see Rebecca's and Lauren's BAP graduate student profiles, go here: https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/bourgeois-rebecca/?portfolioCats=5%2C6%2C7%2C8%2C9 https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/michelman-lauren/?portfolioCats=5%2C6%2C7%2C8%2C9

Andrea Hiob2019-06-10T10:19:31-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|Tags: Michelman, Bourgeois|

Drs. Angela Lieverse, Rick Schulting and Daniel Temple in Moskva

After working hard in the lab, our BAP folks are using their after-hours wisely by seeing the sights! Safe travels to all of our BAP team members that are away doing research this summer. Many BAP team members are presently in Russia doing lab and fieldwork, and working on a documentary of our project. We wish them a productive and fun summer!

Andrea Hiob2019-05-30T11:16:29-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Lieverse, Temple, Schulting|