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Welcome our new BAP team member, Dr. Larisa Savelieva!

We have a new BAP team member! Dr. Larisa Savelieva is an associate Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Her research interests include pollen analysis, climate and vegetation changes during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, and human impact on the Late Holocene environment. Her main research area is Northern Eurasia. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Pollen analysis, climate and vegetation reconstruction, human-environment Welcome to the team, Dr. Savelieva!

Andrea Hiob2022-08-03T14:17:15-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Savelieva|

Dr. Macāne successfully defends PhD dissertation!

On Tuesday June 7th Aija Macāne successfully defended her PhD at Gothenburg University on the mortuary archaeology of human-animal relations, with a primary focus on Zvejnieki cemetery (Latvia), and comparative insights from Skateholm I and II (Sweden) and Sakhtysh II and IIa (Russia). The thesis opponent was BAP Team Member Peter Jordan. Title: "Stone Age companions: Humans and animals in hunter-gatherer burials in north-eastern Europe" Abstract: This thesis examines the relationships between humans and animals in their mutual environment [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-08-03T14:18:23-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Jordan, Zagorska|

Dr. Franziska Kobe and Aleksandra Krikunova attend European Pollen Database (EPD) Open Science Meeting 2022

Dr. Franziska Kobe and Aleksandra Krikunova, new BAP PhD student at Freie Universitaet Berlin, recently attended the European Pollen Database (EPD) Open Science Meeting in Prague from June 1-3, 2022. https://pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/128846 Message and photos from Franziska: Although we did not present, we learned a lot at the numerous presentations and workshops and met many colleagues who might be helpful for our future work. I'm glad we went there! About the photos: One is, of course, of Alexandra and me. [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-06-27T15:10:22-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Kobe, Krikunova|

Rebecca Bourgeois and co-authors article published in Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University!

Congratulations to Rebecca Bourgeois and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University, Geoarchaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology Series. Title: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Human Remains from the Destroyed Early Neolithic Cemetery of Moty – Novaia Shamanka (Cis-Baikal) Authors: Bourgeois RL, Weber AW, Bazaliiskii VI, McKenzie HG, Lieverse AR. Abstract: Moty – Novaia Shamanka (MNS) is an Early Neolithic (7560–6660 HPD cal BP) destroyed Kitoi cemetery, located on the lower Irkut River in Siberia. [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-05-11T10:45:38-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Bazaliiskii, Lieverse, McKenzie, Weber, Bourgeois|

Dr. Kobe successfully defends PhD dissertation!

Congratulations to Dr. Franziska Kobe, BAP PhD student at Freie Universitaet Berlin for successfully defending her PhD dissertation on April 28th! Franziska says she was so happy to finish this important step in her life and it was unique to have her defense on her birthday, no less! Commission: Prof. Dr. Pavel E. Tarasov (reviewer) Prof. Dr. Mayke Wagner (reviewer) Prof. Dr. Frank Riedel (commission leader) Prof. Dr. Serge A. Shapiro (deputy commission leader) Dr. Philipp Hoelzmann (protocol) [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-05-03T13:26:19-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner|

Special Issue of Quaternary International with Christian Leipe and Mayke Wagner as Guest Editors recently published!

The new Special Issue ‘Holocene Environments, Human Subsistence and Adaptation in Northern and Eastern Eurasia’ (Vol. 623) has recently been published in Quaternary International with Christian Leipe and Mayke Wagner as Guest Editors! Link to Special issue: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/quaternary-international/vol/623/suppl/C This issue contains a number of interesting articles for our BAP team. Thank you to Dr. Christian Leipe for sharing this great news! His message below: Christian Leipe, Tengwen Long, Patrick Wertmann and Mayke Wagner have guest-edited this special issue launched as [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-04-27T15:03:01-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner|

Ruairidh Macleod presents talk at UK Archaeological Sciences Conference 2022

Ruairidh Macleod recently presented a talk at the UK Archaeological Sciences Conference 2022 held in Aberdeen, Scotland, in person! Title of Ruairidh's presentation: Ancient Genomics of an Apparent mid-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Massacre at Shamanka II, Lake Baikal Link to conference: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/conferences/ukas-2022.php Action photo supplied by Ruairidh.

Andrea Hiob2022-04-27T12:42:53-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Macleod|

Jennifer Laughton presents at UofA Northern Research Day Conference and Frucht Lecture Series

Northern Research Day: March 22nd-23rd, 2022 https://circumpolarstudentassociation.weebly.com/northern-research-day-2022.html Northern Research Day is an annual student-organized conference for students doing research in the circumpolar north to present and share their work with others. It is hosted by the Circumpolar Students' Association and is sponsored by UAlberta North in tandem with the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAL). This year, Jennifer Laughton, who had received funding from UAlberta North and the Northern Student training Program (NSTP) gave a presentation of her research [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-04-19T14:43:06-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Laughton|

“The invention of trousers” exhibition at State Museum of Archaeology, Chemnitz

The State Museum of Archaeology in Chemnitz (https://www.smac.sachsen.de/) has a long tradition of bringing results of archaeological research to the public. One of the effective forms of their work are the “foyer exhibitions.” https://www.smac.sachsen.de/foyerausstellungen-erfindung-der-hose.html The recent exhibition in the museum’s foyer – “The invention of trousers” (opened from 11 March until May 8th, 2022, access free of charge) – highlights the results of the international research project "Silk Road Fashion" led by Prof. Mayke Wagner (German Archaeological Institute) and [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-03-31T12:39:11-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov, Wagner|

Dr. Andrzej Weber interview on the “Modern Conversation” show

Check out the link for Dr. Weber’s interview with Alexei Petrov on the “Modern Conversation” show on February 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PZNzrMGOSs From Petrov Media: Professor of the University of Alberta, archaeologist Andrzej Weber in Irkutsk in "Modern Conversation." Профессор Университета Альберты, археолог Анджей Вебер в Иркутске в "Современном разговоре." The guest of "Modern Conversation" is a well-known archaeologist, professor of the University of Alberta (Canada), honorary professor of Irkutsk State University Andrzej Weber. He has been excavating cemeteries in Baikal [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-03-31T13:06:58-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Weber|