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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!

Andrea Hiob2024-03-07T09:58:54-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Krikunova|

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 [...]

Erin2023-11-22T10:17:09-07:00Categories: 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 [...]

Andrea Hiob2024-02-01T12:00:56-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Wang|

Welcome our new BAP team member, Linda-Helen Habermann!

We have a new BAP team member! Ms. Linda-Helen Habermann is currently finalizing her BAP-related bachelor project supervised by Prof. Pavel Tarasov in the Palaeontology division of the Institute of Geological Sciences, at Freie Universität Berlin. Her thesis focuses on pollen analysis and pollen-based correlation of two sediment cores from Lake Ochaul in the Upper Lena microregion of Cis-Baikal, covering the past 13,000 years. Since early 2023, she has been employed as a Student Assistant in the BAP-affiliated research [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-11-10T11:07:42-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Le Bras|

Dr. Jana Gliwa wins the von Pawel-Rammingen Award for best dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Jana Gliwa, BAP researcher, who was recently awarded a prize for best dissertation! Her dissertation was entitled “The role of seawater warming for the end-Permian mass extinction event.” The award is named after the donating couple, von Pawel-Rammingen, and was awarded for the first time this year from the Natural History Museum Berlin for the best dissertation (done in collaboration with the museum) over the the last two years. Read about Dr. Gliwa’s research here. Congratulations [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-10-27T11:55:52-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Gliwa|

Andreas Labohm earns Master’s degree!

Congratulations to Andreas Labohm (Master’s student Freie Universität Berlin) who recently very successfully defended his BAP-related Master’s project! Title: Results of the malacological analysis of the Och18-II sediment core from Lake Ochaul (Cis-Baikal region of Siberia) and their implications for the reconstruction of the Lateglacial-Holocene environments. Andreas’ results will be included in the upcoming research paper he is working on. Congratulations, Andreas!

Andrea Hiob2024-07-15T10:44:47-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Tarasov|

Dr. Victoria van der Haas book published by Archaeopress!

Congratulations to Dr. Victoria van der Haas on the recent publication of her book by Archaeopress! Title: Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia: Reconstructing the childhood diets of Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers This volume analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-08-10T12:47:48-06:00Categories: News|Tags: van der Haas|

Ruairidh Macleod’s book chapter published!

Congratulations to BAP Ph.D. student Ruairidh Macleod on the publication of his book chapter in Field Sampling for Laboratory Analysis in Archaeology (ed. Evi Margaritis, Artemios Oikonomou, Efthymia Nikita,Thilo Rehren) 65–87 (The Cyprus Institute, 2023)! Chapter 9 Title: Sampling for ancient biomolecular data: DNA, proteins and lipids from specific archaeological sample types Introduction: Ancient biomolecular analyses have rapidly risen to prominence in archaeological research, generating a considerable breadth of novel evidence for behaviour, population history and subsistence in [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-08-23T11:37:07-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Macleod|

Full text translations (Russian) recently published in “BULLETIN OF THE IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY. GEOARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY SERIES”

Dr. Andrzej Weber would like to announce that full text translations (from English to Russian) of the three papers below have been published in “BULLETIN OF THE IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY. GEOARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY SERIES”. 2023. Volume 43. All three papers can be downloaded here: https://izvestiageoarh.isu.ru/en/journal?id=42 Links to individual papers below: Title: Неолит и ранний бронзовый век Предбайкалья: хронология и пищевые тренды (Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Cis-Baikal: Chronology and Dietary Trends) Authors: A. W. Weber, C. Bronk [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-07-26T13:25:34-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Weber, Goriunova, Ramsey, Bazaliiskii, Schulting|

New BAP Monograph on Sagan-Zaba II published in Russian!

Congratulations to Drs. Alexei G. Novikov, Galina A. Vorobieva, Olga I. Goriunova and Dr. Andrzej W. Weber on the recent publication of their BAP Monograph on Sagan-Zaba II! Title: Multilayer Geoarchaeology object Sagan-Zaba II on Lake Baikal: Archaeology and Paleoecology Authors: Alexei G. Novikov, Galina A. Vorobieva, Olga I. Goriunova and Dr. Andrzej W. Weber Summary: The purpose of this monograph is to disseminate the new archaeological materials from the Sagan-Zaba II camp site, located in a cove of the [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-07-10T09:47:02-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Weber, Novikov, Goriunova|