Publications
Flexible approaches: Adapting analytical techniques and research designs to suit variable landscapes and cultural structures
Humanity is highly adaptable based on evidence from regional culture histories, dominant climatic patterns, ecosystem availability, and subsistence practices. Astounding resourcefulness in solving short- and long-term challenges is routinely demonstrated by cultural groups pursuing variants of agro-pastoralism, hunting, fishing, gathering, and horticulture. Pursuing specific economic strategies often leads cultural groups to exhibit similar patterns of social organization and material culture. Observation of this trend has led anthropologists to note, and archaeologists to infer, that describing a population based [...]
Holocene Zooarchaeology of Cis-Baikal
Archaeology in China and East Asia Volume 6 / Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series Volume 7 A joint project of the German Archaeological Institute and the University of Alberta, the monograph "Holocene Zooarchaeology of Cis-Baikal" was prepared by Drs. Robert Losey and Tatiana Nomokonova in cooperation twelve co-authors representing Archaeology and Geo-sciences in the BAP. We would like to thank the ACEA Series Editor Mayke Wagner, who contributed a lot of her time and energy in the final preparation [...]
Kurma XI, a Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia
Archaeology in China and East Asia Volume 3 / Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series Volume 6 With pleasure we present to the academic community the sixth volume published as part of the Baikal Archaeology Project's Northern Hunter- Gatherers Series. The volume is third site monograph published in the series and presents both archaeological and human osteological data from fieldwork conducted by the project at the mortuary site Kurma XI, in the extensively researched Little Sea area of Lake Baikal, [...]
Evenki Economy in the Central Siberian Taiga at the Turn of the 20th Century: Principles of Land Use
Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series Volume 5 Authorized English translation of the second Russian edition (1990) prepared by Andrzej W. Weber and Ksenia Maryniak Mikhail G. Turov's monograph is essentially the first ethnography produced by a Russian scholar that focuses on the culture-economic adaptations of Evenkis in the taiga zone of Central Siberia. This work is based on the author's extensive field research, as well as on a broad examination of literary and archival sources. It differs substantially from [...]
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Life Ways
A volume in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology series Siberia's Lake Baikal region is an archaeologically unique and emerging area of hunter-gatherer research, offering insights into the complexity, variability, and dynamics of long-term culture change. The exceptional quality of archaeological materials recovered there facilitates interdisciplinary studies whose relevance extends far beyond the region. The Baikal Archaeology Project - one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted in the history of subarctic archaeology - is [...]
Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, a Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Archaeological Materials
Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series Volume 4 The fourth volume in the Baikal Archaeology Project's Northern Hunter-Gatherers Series presents comprehensive archaeological data from fieldwork conducted by the project a the mortuary site Khuzhir-Nuge XIV on Lake Baikal in Siberia. The BAP is a Major Collaborative Research Initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), based at the University of Alberta and partnered with the University of Irkutsk. The goal of the BAP has been to [...]