NEWS | Baikal Archaeology Project

Successful BAP workshop in Oxford, UK, June 17-19, 2023!

Members of the Baikal Archaeology Project and guests have wrapped up another successful workshop—this time in Oxford, UK. Team members brought each other up to date on their current research, discussed future plans, and enjoyed social outings and a field trip to West Kennet Long Barrow, Silbury Hill & the Avebury Stone Circle. Our thanks go out to all attendees who made our workshop in Oxford such a resounding success. We are especially grateful to our Oxford hosts & [...]

Erin2023-06-25T20:55:40-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|

Gwen Le Bras earns Master’s degree!

Congratulations to BAP graduate student Gwen Le Bras, who recently earned their Master’s degree! Gwen is now a PhD student! They have been awarded a grant from their University to continue their PhD program under the supervision of Dr. Klervia Jaouen in Toulouse in September. Kudos and all the best to Gwen! Read about Gwen’s research here

Andrea Hiob2023-07-26T13:28:44-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Le Bras, Jaouen|

Corrie Hyland awarded best student paper at Radiocarbon and Diet Conference, Oxford!

Congratulations to BAP graduate student Corrie Hyland, who was awarded best student paper at the recent Radiocarbon and Diet Conference, held June 20-23 at the University of Oxford! Along with the title, Corrie was awarded 100GBP (kindly sponsored by IonPlus)! Title: Using Amino Acid Isotope Values to Determine Freshwater Reservoir Offsets Authors: Corrie Hyland, Amy Styring, Rick Schulting, Andrzej Weber Abstract: Previous paired dating studies of early hunter-gatherer populations from the Upper Lena and Little Sea microregions in Cis-Baikal [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-10-27T11:43:34-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Hyland, Weber, Schulting|

Dr. Andrea Czermak presents talk at the ArchaeoBioCenter, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München

BAP researcher Dr. Andrea Czermak, recently gave a talk at the ArchaeoBioCenter, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Germany. Andrea presented her dentine micro-sampling method, using data from Zvejnieki, Latvia. The talk was in German and entitled: Du bist, was man dir zu essen gibt: Ernährung in Kindheit und Jugend in der Vorgeschichte (You are what you eat: Childhood nutrition in Prehistory).

Andrea Hiob2024-04-24T13:09:03-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach, News|Tags: Czermak|

Dr. Alyssa White new position at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan

Dr. J. Alyssa White recently became a Research Affiliate of the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Congratulations to Alyssa on her new position! Read about Alyssa's research here: https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/white-j-alyssa/?portfolioCats=5%2C6%2C7%2C8%2

Andrea Hiob2023-04-24T12:20:22-06:00Categories: News|

Drs. Christian Leipe and Pavel Tarasov article published in Quaternary Science Reviews!

Congratulations to Christian Leipe, Pavel Tarasov and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Quaternary Science Reviews! Title: Visible or not? Reflection of the 8.2 ka BP event and the Greenlandian–Northgrippian boundary in a new high-resolution pollen record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria Authors: Anna Schubert, Stefan Lauterbach, Christian Leipe, Achim Brauer, Pavel E. Tarasov (15 May 2023) Quaternary Science Reviews. Abstract: This paper presents a new pollen record from Lake Mondsee in [...]

Erin2023-04-19T11:10:53-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Tarasov, Leipe|

Dr. Daniel Temple article published in American Journal of Biological Anthropology!

Congratulations to Daniel Temple and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in American Journal of Biological Anthropology! Title: Adapting in the Arctic II: Upper limb diaphyseal robusticity and habitual activity in Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from Alaska Authors: Daniel Temple, Emily Rosa, David R. Hunt, Christopher B. Ruff (28 March 2023) American Journal of Biological Anthropology. Abstract: Objectives This study compares humeral diaphyseal robusticity and asymmetry between Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from Alaska with the goal of reconstructing [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-04-06T11:42:49-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Temple|

BAP Symposium at the SAA 88th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, organized by Corrie Hyland and Karolina Werens

Corrie Hyland and Karolina Werens, our BAP PhD students from University fof Oxford, recently organized a BAP Symposium at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Portland, Oregon, March 29-April 2, 2023. SYMPOSIUM NORTHEAST ASIAN PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHER LIFEWAYS: MULTIDISCIPLINARY, INDIVIDUAL LIFE HISTORY APPROACH Chairs: Corrie Hyland and Karolina Werens Andrzej Weber: Discussant Andrzej Weber and Olga Goriunova: Early Bronze Age Cemeteries on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Their History and Patterns of Use Corrie Hyland, Rick Schulting, Amy Styring and Andrzej Weber: [...]

Andrea Hiob2023-03-31T13:46:19-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Wang, Werens, Macleod, O'Shea, Hyland, Laughton, Weber, Lieverse|

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 [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-12-08T13:06:20-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Le Bras|

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. [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-12-08T13:07:35-07:00Categories: News|Tags: White|