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Christian Leipe BAP archaeobotanical analysis featured in Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper article!

Thank you to Dr. Pavel Tarasov for sharing the following BHAP/BAP news!: The Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese national newspaper with a 140-year history and a daily readership of more than 9 million copies every morning, recently published an article about ancient barley seeds excavated from the Hamanaka 2 site on Rebun Island. The story, written by a Japanese journalist, is based on the samples obtained through the BHAP international summer school excavations and on the archaeobotanical analysis performed by [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-05-21T12:22:22-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|Tags: Leipe|

Rebecca Bourgeois presents at Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meeting

In 2019, the conjoint Annual Meetings of the Canadian Archaeological Association and the Association des archéologues de Québec were held in Quebec City, May 15-18, 2019. Rebecca Bourgeois, our BAP Master’s student from University of Saskatchewan supervised by Dr. Angela Lieverse and Dr. Hugh McKenzie, presented a talk entitled: “Reorienting Bioarchaeology for an Era of Reconciliation: The Informed Behavioural Model.” Rebecca is second from left on the photo. Link to Meeting: https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-meeting

Andrea Hiob2019-05-24T11:34:25-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Bourgeois|

Talisha Chaput successfully defends Master’s thesis!

Congratulations to Talisha Chaput, BHAP Graduate student, for successfully defending her Master's thesis on April 23, 2019! Title of Talisha's thesis: "“Seal or No Seal? A Bayesian (FRUITS) Modelling of Hunter-Gatherer Diet in the Little Sea Micro-Region of Lake Baikal.” She was supervised by Dr. Andrzej Weber, and committee members were Dr. Sandra Garvie-Lok and Dr. Robert Losey from University of Alberta. Read about Talisha and her research here: https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/talisha-chaput/?portfolioCats=5%2C6%2C7%2C8%2C9 Talisha was also featured on the University of Alberta YouAlberta [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-05-21T11:54:34-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Chaput|

Dr. Pavel Tarasov and Dr. Christian Leipe research update from Siberia!

Exciting research update from Dr. Christian Leipe: Pavel and I are back from Siberia. It was a successful and interesting trip even with lots of snow and ice, which I haven’t seen for a long time. We would like to share some photos and information for the next newsletter. Here are the captions for the photos attached. Pavel Tarasov giving a public lecture within the framework of the BAP at the Institute of Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-05-21T11:55:41-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov|

BAP represents at American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting

The BAP was well represented at the AAPA Annual Meeting held in Cleveland! First photo from top left: Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist, PhD candidate Victoria van der Haas, Dr. Angela Lieverse, Dr. Daniel Temple, Dr. Hugh McKenzie, PhD candidate J. Alyssa White. A great looking crew! Thank you to Victoria van der Haas, BAP PhD Candidate, for the following live tweets! Victoria is in charge of BAP’s social media and she is doing a great job keeping everyone up-to-date on BAP [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-05-24T11:35:20-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Waters-Rist, White, McKenzie, Lieverse, Temple, van der Haas|

Victoria van der Haas receives travel award!

Congratulations to Victoria van der Haas, BAP PhD student, on being awarded the Clifford H. Skitch Travel Fund Award and the University of Alberta Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Travel Award! Victoria’s award totals $1,453.00 CAD and will be used to attend the upcoming AAPA Meetings in Cleveland (http://physanth.org/annual-meetings/88th-annual-meeting-2019/) Kudos to Victoria!

Andrea Hiob2019-03-29T10:54:04-06:00Categories: News|Tags: van der Haas|

Dr. Andrzej Weber interviewed for Faculty of Arts News, University of Alberta

Dr. Andrzej Weber recently gave an interview to the Faculty of Arts, and the story is now up on Arts News. It will also be shared on social media, and be included in Anthology and the University of Alberta’s alumni newsletter Work of Arts Express. Title: Discovery helps international team of researchers better understand changes experienced by hunter-gatherers over hundreds of thousands of years Led by Faculty of Arts’ archaeologist Andrzej Weber, two decades of research yields fresh insight into [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-03-18T10:47:42-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Weber|

Dr. Andrzej Weber granted title of Honorary Professor of Irkutsk State University!

Congratulations to Dr. Andrzej Weber, BAP Project Director, who was recently granted the title of “Honorary Professor of Irkutsk State University” in recognition of his contribution to academic cooperation! Dr. Weber states “it was a huge surprise but so nice! :-)” Dr. Weber also gave a public lecture on Saturday, February 16, at the Irkutsk State University entitled “25 years of joint research by the Russian-Canadian archaeological expedition on Lake Baikal”. The lecture was filmed and is posted on Facebook [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-03-15T11:59:13-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Weber|

Franziska Kobe successfully defends Master’s thesis!

Congratulations to Franziska Kobe, who successfully defended her Master's Thesis on February 11, 2019! She received the highest note of "Very Good" from reviewers for the written work and oral presentation. Franziska will continue her work with BAP as a PhD student, beginning April 1, 2019. Congratulations Franziska! We look forward to your continuing research with us!

Andrea Hiob2019-03-12T17:03:40-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Kobe|

Franziska Kobe’s article published in GES

More great news! The day of Franziska's Master's defense, an article written by Franziska Kobe, Martin K. Bittner, Christian Leipe, Philipp Hoelzmann, Tengwen Long, Mayke Wagner, Romy Zibulski, and Pavel E. Tarasov entitled "Late glacial and early Holocene environments and human occupation in Brandenburg, eastern Germany" appeared online in the open access scientific journal GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. This paper contributes to the project (SSHRC Partnership Grant Number 895-2018-1004) and the profile will be further investigated for better understanding the [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:18:19-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Wagner, Tarasov, Kobe, Leipe|