Bezrukova - Baikal Archaeology Project

Global and Planetary Change November 2025

Environmental and cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal Region reflect hemispheric-scale changes in temperature and atmospheric circulation over the past 8800 years

Tarasov PE, Kobe K, Leipe C, Shchetnikov AA, Bezrukova EV, Habermann L-H, Hoelzmann P, Nykamp M, Gliwa J, Krikunova AI, Kostrova SS, Long T, Wagner M

Characterised by heterogeneous microclimatic conditions, a sharp vegetation gradient and a rich archaeological record, Olkhon Island offers a unique setting to investigate past climate change and its potential influence on cultural trajectories in the Lake Baikal Region (LBR). Palynological and geochemical analyses of the uppermost 556 cm section of the 750 cm long, radiocarbon-dated sediment core (Nur-II) from Lake Nurskoye (53°3'N, 106°58'E; 456 m a.s.l.) at the western end of Olkhon Island reveal several long- and short-term climate [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-11-24T12:04:53-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner, Gliwa, Krikunova, Shchetnikov, Hoelzmann, Bezrukova, Habermann, Long|

Science Advances September 2019

New BAP publication from Dr. Pavel Tarasov and team!

Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE

Dr. Pavel Tarasov shares some great BAP news below!: The article on Lake Nurskoye from Olkhon Island has been published open access. We would like to share it with the rest of the BAP Team. Title: "Environmental and cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal Region reflect hemispheric-scale changes in temperature and atmospheric circulation over the past 8800 years" by Pavel E. Tarasov, Franziska Kobe, Christian Leipe, Aleksandr A. Shchetnikov, Elena V. Bezrukova, Linda-Helen Habermann, Philipp Hoelzmann, Moritz Nykamp, [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-11-24T11:51:20-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Habermann, Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner, Gliwa, Krikunova, Shchetnikov, Hoelzmann, Bezrukova, Long|

Science Advances September 2019

Pavel Tarasov, Christian Leipe and Franziska Kobe article published in Quaternary Environments and Humans! Plus MORE!

Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE

Great News from Dr. Pavel Tarasov and the Freie Universität Berlin team! Thank you to Pavel for sharing the fantastische news below: The final open access version of our article "Reflections of Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age environments, land use and pile dwelling activities in a new palynological record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria" is now available online and published in Quaternary Environments and Humans. Pavel Tarasov, Christian Leipe, Franziska Kobe are the co-authors. See buttons [...]

Andrea Hiob2025-07-08T12:12:38-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Wagner, Gliwa, Krikunova, Shchetnikov, Bezrukova, Tarasov, Leipe, Kobe|

Quaternary Science Reviews April 2024

Vegetation and fire history of the Lake Baikal Region since 32 ka BP reconstructed through microcharcoal and pollen analysis of lake sediment from Cis- and Trans-Baikal

Krikunova AI, Kostromina NA, Savelieva LA, Long T, Leipe C, Kobe F, Kostromina NA, Vasilyeva AV, Tarasov PE

With the increase in global wildfire activity in response to global climate warming, the reconstruction of long-term fire histories and their links to environmental and anthropogenic factors has recently become an important focus of palaeoenvironmental research. Here we compare the precisely radiocarbon (14C) dated long-term histories of vegetation change and fire activity from lakes Ochaul (Cis-Baikal) and Kotokel (Trans-Baikal) in the Lake Baikal Region (LBR) of Siberia, a known source region of wildfires whose past and future relationships [...]

Andrea Hiob2024-11-05T13:51:37-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner, Gliwa, Krikunova, Shchetnikov, Bezrukova|

Science Advances September 2019

Aleksandra Krikunova article published in Quaternary Science Reviews!

Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE

Congratulations to Aleksandra Krikunova and co-authors on the recent publication of their article in Quaternary Science Reviews! Title: Vegetation and fire history of the Lake Baikal Region since 32 ka BP reconstructed through microcharcoal and pollen analysis of lake sediment from Cis- and Trans-Baikal Authors: Krikunova AI, Kobe F, Long T, Leipe C, Gliwa J, Shchetnikov AA, Olschewski P, Hoelzmann, P, Wagner M, Bezrukova EV, Tarasov, PE. Abstract: With the increase in global wildfire activity in response to global climate [...]

Andrea Hiob2024-09-05T12:23:51-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Shchetnikov, Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner, Gliwa, Krikunova, Bezrukova|

Science Advances September 2019

Team Berlin paper is top 10 most-cited papers published by Journal of Quaternary Science

Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE

Congratulations to Team Berlin as their paper is one of the top 10 most-cited papers published by Journal of Quaternary Science! Title: Not herbs and forbs alone: pollen-based evidence for the presence of boreal trees and shrubs in Cis-Baikal (Eastern Siberia) derived from the Last Glacial Maximum sediment of Lake Ochaul Authors: Kobe, F., Leipe, C., Shchetnikov, A.A., Hoelzmann, P., Gliwa, J., Olschewski, P., Goslar, T., Wagner, M., Bezrukova, E.V., Tarasov, P.E. This work was published as part of [...]

Andrea Hiob2024-04-29T11:04:58-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner, Gliwa, Shchetnikov, Hoelzmann, Bezrukova|