Team Member Role: Researchers

Dr. Ian Scharlotta is an Alumnus of the University of Alberta and Baikal Archaeology Project member for over a decade. He is currently working with Applied EarthWorks in San Luis Obispo County, CA to help synthesize and contextualize analytical data gleaned from a series of data recovery projects in the region. The sites lie in a disputed cultural area with evidence of long-term complex hunter-gatherer interactions within the changing environmental circumstances of the entire Holocene. He recently completed a project [...]

Dr. Alexei Novikov is with the Scientific Research Centre “Baikalskii Region” at Irkutsk State University. He research involves: prehistoric cultures of the Baikal region in Siberia during the Holocene: Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age of the Little Sea micro-region on Lake Baikal; archaeological excavations and comprehensive examination of mortuary sites and multi-layered camp sites of the Cis-Baikal region focusing on dating, chronology, and culture historical periodization; reconstruction of the material and spiritual culture, subsistence activities, and social organization; examination of [...]

Dr. Peter Jordan is a Professor at Lund University, Sweden. His inter-disciplinary research focuses on the archaeology, ethnography and anthropology of circumpolar peoples and cultures, particularly in Western and Eastern Siberia, the Russian Far East and Hokkaido, and northern Fennoscandia, especially Arctic Norway. Jordan’s interdisciplinary research profile is reflected in his diverse publications, which include recent papers in Nature, PNAS, Annual Review of Anthropology, Antiquity, Arctic Anthropology, Quaternary Science Review and Quaternary International. He has published seven books with major [...]

Dr. Olga Goriunova is a Senior Research Associate in the Scientific Research Centre “Baikalskii Region”at Irkutsk State University. She has played a pivotal role in the Baikal Archaeology Project's Russian excavations and research as our regional coordinator. Her research involves: prehistoric cultures of the Baikal region in Siberia during the Holocene; Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age of the Little Sea micro-region on Lake Baikal; archaeological excavations and comprehensive examination of mortuary sites and multi-layered camp sites of the Cis-Baikal region [...]

Dr. Andreas Duering is a Research Associate at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford and Forensic Anthropologist at the IfoSA Forensic Institute, Munich/Berlin. His research focuses on (agent-based) demographic modelling software to study past populations and their cemeteries. He is interested in the demographics of populations of normal communities as well as the structure of abnormal populations, e.g. massacres, war graves etc. He also works on the identification of living and deceased human individuals at a forensic institute in [...]

Dr. Christopher Ramsey is currently the Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and a Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford. His main research focus is in radiocarbon dating and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and is the author of the radiocarbon calibration program OxCal. He has a particular interest in the use of Bayesian statistics to help in the interpretation of archaeological and chronological information. For the project, he will be further researching radiocarbon dating and reservoir effect, [...]

Mr. Vladimir Bazaliiskii is a long-time member of BAP, associated with the Scientific Research Centre “Baikalskii Region” at Irkutsk State University.  He was responsible for the excavations of many of the most significant cemeteries in the region, including Lokomotiv, Ust-Ida I and, most recently, the extraordinary Shamanka II on southwest Baikal. His research focuses on Middle Holocene hunter–gatherers of the Cis-Baikal region and includes such topics as mortuary ritual, culture change, chronology, and material culture. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neolithic and Early [...]

Dr. Angela Lieverse is a bioarchaeologist at the University of Saskatchewan with over 20 years of experience working on ancient human remains, particularly those of northern hunter-gatherers. She is a founding member of BAP, having worked in the Baikal region since 1997. Lieverse’s expertise lies largely in skeletal morphology (i.e., activity reconstruction using entheseal changes and osteoarthritis) and paleopathology (including oral health and physiological stress), including some remarkable case studies on metastatic carcinoma, dystocic childbirth, and violence. She is working [...]