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Welcome our new BAP team member, Gwen Le Bras!

We have a new BAP team member! Mx. Gwen LE BRAS is completing their MSC under the supervision of Dr. Klervia JAOUEN from January 2023 at the GET Department (Géosciences Environnement Toulouse) of the Observatoire Midi Pyrénées in Toulouse, France. Their mission is to trace the food web of Lake Baikal populations using stable zinc isotopes on dental enamel and food samples. They will also be trained in collagen extraction in order to perform isotopic analysis of the carbon [...]

2022-12-08T13:06:20-07:00Categories: News|Tags: |

We have a new/old BAP team member to reintroduce! Welcome, Dr. Dustin White!

We have a new/old BAP team member to reintroduce! Dr. Dustin White is a Research Fellow at the University of York and is one of the founding members of the Baikal Archaeology Project, having conducted fieldwork in the region since 1999. His main areas of research include geoarchaeology, Quaternary stratigraphy and chronology, palaeopedology, malacology, cryptotephra, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and the prehistory of Eurasia. RESEARCH INTERESTS::Human evolution, biostratigraphy, chronology, palaeoecology, Eurasia Welcome back to the team, Dustin! You never really left. [...]

2022-12-08T13:07:35-07:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Dr. Rick Schulting and Corrie Hyland participate in “Animals Make Identities” Meetings in Helsinki, Finland

Note from Rick Schulting: BAP members Rick Schulting and Corrie Hyland participated in a recent Animals Make Identities (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/animals-make-identities) project meeting 15-18 November, led by Dr. Kristiina Mannermaa and held at the University of Helsinki’s marine research station (every university should have one) at Tvärminne. Highlight (other than the excellent research papers) was the proper Finnish sauna – no snakes allowed! Photo of no snakes poster by Eileen Murphy. Unfortunately, action photos from Finnish sauna are unavailable. Great looking [...]

2022-12-08T12:45:57-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , |

Dr. Dustin White article published in Quaternary International!

Congratulations to Dustin White and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Quaternary International! Title: A Holocene floodplain sequence from the Kirenga Valley, Lake Baikal region (Siberia), and its significance for molluscan and mammalian biogeography Authors: Dustin White, Simon A. Parfitt, Alexander A. Shchetnikov, Alexey S. Tesakov, Richard C. Preece (2022) Quaternary International, in press. Abstract: The archaeological record in the Baikal region is characterised by a marked discontinuity separating different groups of hunter-gatherers within the Neolithic [...]

2022-11-28T11:27:21-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , |

Lauren Michelman successfully passes Master’s thesis!

Congratulations to Lauren Michelman, Master's student at University of Saskatchewan, for successfully passing her thesis on November 4th! Lauren was supervised by Dr. Angela Lieverse. Committee members were Tatiana Nomokonova (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology) and David Cooper (College of Medicine). The external examiner was Julia Boughner (College of Medicine, USask). Title: "Harris Lines as Indicators of Physiological Stress in the Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal" Way to go, Lauren! We wish you all the best in your future endeavors! See [...]

2022-11-08T10:41:40-07:00Categories: News|Tags: , |

Dr. Angela Lieverse and Jennifer Laughton present at CABA-ACAB in Saskatoon, Oct. 26-28

Dr. Angela Lieverse and Jennifer Laughton recently presented papers at CABA-ACAB (Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology) meetings held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 27-28, 2022. Title: Laughton J. Plan-(oral)B: pivoting projects from biological to dental anthropology Title: Lieverse AR, Schulting R, Bazaliiskii VI, Kharinskii A & Weber AW. Hunter-Gatherer Violence at Shamanka II, Siberia: A Probable Middle Holocene Massacre Dr. Lieverse co-organized the conference, and still found time to take the nice photo at the banquet (Jen is third from [...]

2022-11-01T10:57:30-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , |

Dr. Christian Leipe new position at Max Planck Institute

In September 2022, our BHAP and BAP team member, Dr. Christian Leipe returned from his DFG-funded postdoctoral fellowship in Nagoya University (Japan) and started a new research position at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Department of Archaeology in Jena, Germany. He will continue his cooperation with the BAP team. Congratulations to Christian on his new position! Read about Christian's research here: https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/dr-christian-leipe/?portfolioCats=5%2C6%2C7%2C8%2C9

2022-10-25T14:36:44-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Jennifer Laughton conducts laboratory work at University of Oxford!

Finally "in the field": In August, PhD student Jennifer Laughton spent three weeks in Oxford for dental data collection, spending numerous hours measuring and scanning Baikal and Zvejnieki teeth, in a space at ORAU kindly provided and supported by Dr. Rick Schulting. Having switched from bones to teeth due to the pandemic, she will be undertaking three dental anthropology projects, one of which involves studying interproximal wear facet size changes on teeth to assess dietary changes odontometrically. While in [...]

2022-10-24T13:09:45-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |

Aleksandra Krikunova article published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology!

Congratulations to Aleksandra Krikunova (BAP PhD student Freie Universitaet Berlin) and co-authors, many of whom are BAP team members. This is Alexandra’s first paper as leading author! Title: Late- and postglacial vegetation and climate history of the central Kola Peninsula derived from a radiocarbon-dated pollen record of Lake Kamenistoe Authors: Krikunova, A.I., Kostromina, N.A., Savelieva, L.A., Tolstobrov, D.S., Petrov, A.Y., Long, T., Kobe, F., Leipe, C., Tarasov, P.E. Abstract: A radiocarbon-dated sediment core collected from the small freshwater [...]

2022-10-18T10:41:40-06:00Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

Peter Jordan article published in Journal of Maritime Archaeology!

Dr. Peter Jordan would like to share a new paper on North Eurasia Mid Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems! Message from Dr. Jordan: The paper is a bit outside the core BAP focal region but also looks at hunter-gatherer exploitation of major water bodies (lakes and seas) in the same time-period. This research was based upon a 4-year collaborative field project we had with the University of Groningen and University of Tromso. Title: Peopling Prehistoric Coastlines: Identifying Mid‑Holocene Forager Settlement [...]

2022-10-18T14:12:10-06:00Categories: News|Tags: |