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Drs. Daniel Temple and Ian Scharlotta present at Baikal Archaeology Project Graduate Student Seminar

Dr. Daniel Temple and Dr. Ian Scharlotta recently presented at our first Baikal Archaeology Project Graduate Student Seminar held on January 10th at the University of Alberta. UAlberta North hosted the meeting at their beautiful space on campus. Baikal Archaeology Project Graduate Student Seminar Thursday, January 10th 9:00am-12noon Ring House 3 (UAlberta North) Dr. Daniel Temple, George Mason University Title: Persistence of Time: Resilience and Adaptability in Prehistoric Jomon Hunter-Gatherers from the Inland Sea Region of Southwestern Honshu, Japan [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-05-21T12:21:21-06:00Categories: News|Tags: BAP Graduate Student Seminars, Temple, Scharlotta|

Dr. Ian Scharlotta (Fraser-Shapiro) presents public lecture at La Purisima Mission

Dr. Ian Scharlotta (Fraser-Shapiro) recently presented a public lecture on Archaeology Day hosted by La Purisima Mission State Historic Park near Lompoc, California on October 20th, 2018. His talk was a public lecture about radiocarbon offset corrections and expanding on how scientific archaeological data helps to make management decisions for base CRMs and private firms. From La Purisima Mission Archaeology Day Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/711161242571030/ October is Archaeology month in California, and to celebrate La Purisima Mission is hosting our [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-03-15T12:01:22-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|Tags: Scharlotta|

Sean Lynch co-author of a recent article featuring pXRF analysis in JASR

Congratulations to Sean Lynch (former BHAP Master's student), co-author of a recent article in the Journal of Archaeology Science: Reports! Title: Identifying and sourcing pyrometamorphic artifacts: Clinker in subarctic North America and the hunter-gatherer response to a Late Holocene volcanic eruption Sean was responsible for the pXRF analysis of the geological samples and artifacts used in the study, as well as the corresponding article sections. He hopes it will be useful to demonstrate the continued use of this equipment [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:19:13-06:00Categories: News|

Dr. Daniel Temple co-editor of new book on hunter-gatherer adaptation and resilience

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Temple, co-editor of a new book entitled "Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience: A Bioarchaeological Perspective". Dan contributed three chapters: Interrogating the Alterity of Hunter-Gatherers in Bioarchaeological Context: Adaptability, Transformability, and Resilience of Hunter-Gatherers in the Past by Daniel H. Temple and Christopher M. Stojanowski Persistence of Time: Resilience and Adaptability in Prehistoric Jomon Hunter-Gatherers from the Inland Sea Region of Southwestern Honshu, Japan by Daniel H. Temple Bioarchaeological Evidence for Cultural Resilience at Point Hope, Alaska: [...]

pderas2020-06-30T11:21:03-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Temple|

Dr. Mareike Schmidt’s article on Lake Kushu palaeolimnological record published in Palaeo3

Congratulations to Dr. Mareike Schmidt and co-authors for the recent publication of their paper in Palaeo3! Good news below from Dr. Pavel Tarasov about the BHAP Freie Universitaet Berlin Team! The final manuscript describing results of Mareike Schmidt’s PhD Thesis has been published in Palaeo3 by Elsevier. Title: “A multi-proxy palaeolimnological record of the last 16,600 years from coastal Lake Kushu in northern Japan” Abstract: Based on diatom, aquatic pollen and non-pollen palynomorph (NPP), lake sediment microfacies, and X-ray [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:21:42-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Wagner, Tarasov, Leipe|

Dr. Andrzej Weber gives public lecture at the Vancouver Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Andrzej Weber gave a public lecture at the Vancouver Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on December 1, 2018. Location: The University of British Columbia - Lecture Hall No. 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (2194 Health Sciences Mall) Title: Climate Change and Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Baikal region in Siberia https://globalreportingcentre.org/climate-change-and-problem-solving-amongst-prehistoric-hunter-gatherers-a-case-study-from-lake-baikal/ Since 1916, the Vancouver Institute (https://globalreportingcentre.org/vancouver-institute/) has brought the University of British Columbia and Vancouver community together through free public lectures and discussions. Driven by volunteer membership and [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-03-15T12:01:53-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|Tags: Weber|

BAP Workshops held in Copenhagen, November 1-3, 2018

Our Baikal Archaeology Project Workshops Individual life histories in long-term culture change: Holocene hunter-gatherers in Northern Eurasia were held in Copenhagen from November 11–3, 2018. The workshops were hosted by Dr. Eske Willerslev and Isebelle Ulrich from the Center for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. We took part in exciting presentations, discussions and business meetings, and a great time was had by all in beautiful Copenhagen! PDF of Program

Andrea Hiob2019-03-15T12:02:22-06:00Categories: News|Tags: BAP Workshops|

Dr. Ian Scharlotta articles published in AJHB and IJO

Great news! Ian Scharlotta, Gwenaelle Goude, Estelle Herrscher, Vladimir Bazaliiskii, and Andrzej Weber recently had 2 articles published! Info below. First paper published in the American Journal of Human Biology. Title: "Mind the gap"-Assessing methods for aligning age determination and growth rate in multi-molar sequences of dietary isotopic data. Abstract: Objectives: Creating multi‐tooth sequences of micro‐sampled stable isotope (SI) analytical data can help track 20+ years of individual dietary history. Inferences about individual and population level behavioral patterns require [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:23:50-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Weber, Goude, Bazaliiskii, Scharlotta|

Drs. Pavel Tarasov and Stefanie Müller, co-authors of recent article in Science

Great news from Dr. Pavel Tarasov: Science magazine recently published an article entitled "Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change" (Nolan et al., Science 361, 920-923 (2018) 31 August 2018, in which two members of the BHAP team (Stefanie Müller and Pavel Tarasov) representing the FU Berlin contributed as co-authors. Abstract: Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred in response to [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:25:26-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Tarasov|

Dr. Rick Schulting article in Radiocarbon

Congratulations to Dr. Rick Schulting and co-authors for the recent publication of their paper in Radiocarbon! Title: "Using δ2H in human bone collagen to correct for freshwater 14C reservoir offsets: A pilot study from Shamanka II, Lake Baikal, southern Siberia" Rick J Schulting • Christophe Snoeck • Ian Begley • Steve Brookes • Vladimir I Bazaliiskii• Christopher Bronk Ramsey • Andrzej Weber Radiocarbon, 2018, p. 1-12. Published online 18 July 2018. Abstract: There is increasing awareness of the need [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:28:36-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Weber, Ramsey, Bazaliiskii, Schulting|