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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: |

Dr. Angela Lieverse presents at Paleopathology Society Annual Meeting

Dr. Angela Lieverse presented a poster, with our BAP colleagues as co-authors, at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Society, held in Los Angeles, March 18-20, 2024. Title: Postcranial trauma in the Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal Authors: Lieverse AR, Schulting RJ, Bazaliiskii VI, Goriunova OI, Kharinskii AA, Weber AW

2024-03-21T13:28:36-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

Rick Schulting presents his research at BAP monthly online research seminar (BAP MORS)

Our second BAP MORS of 2024! These seminars are a great way to learn and connect with our international team on a regular basis. February 28, 2024: Rick Schulting (University of Oxford). “Playing with hydrogen: a (somewhat) new isotopic system to explore trophic level and weaning” Thank you to Rick for presenting his very interesting research!

2024-03-07T10:01:11-07:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Aleksandra Krikunova presents her research at BAP monthly online research seminar (BAP MORS)

Our monthly online research seminars (BAP MORS) are in full swing for 2024! These seminars are a great way to learn and connect with our international team on a regular basis. Our first BAP MORS of 2024! January 30, 2024: Aleksandra Krikunova (Freie Universität Berlin). “Postglacial environments and humans in the Lake Onega Region inferred from botanical and archaeological data” Thank you to Aleksandra for presenting her very interesting research!

2024-03-07T09:58:54-07:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Successful BAP workshop in Istanbul, Türkiye, November 11-13, 2023!

Members of the Baikal Archaeology Project and guests have wrapped up another successful workshop—this time in Istanbul, Türkiye. Team members brought each other up to date on their current research, discussed future plans, and enjoyed social outings and an evening cruise on the Bosphorus. Our thanks go out to all attendees who made our workshop in Istanbul such a resounding success. We are especially grateful to our Project Manager, Andrea Hiob, for all her hard work getting things organized [...]

2023-11-22T10:17:09-07:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|

Welcome our new BAP team member, Yucheng Wang!

We have a new BAP team member! Dr. Yucheng Wang is a Research Associate at University of Cambridge working on ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA, also known as sedimentary ancient DNA, sedaDNA). He has been involved in the Baikal Archaeology Project since 2019 when he was based at Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen. His research activities on the BAP involve developing and applying aeDNA methods to address archeological and paleo-ecological questions associated with the Baikal region from genomic and [...]

2024-02-01T12:00:56-07:00Categories: News|Tags: |