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Nour Moussa article published in Archaeological Research in Asia

Some great BAP news to share in the new year of 2021! Congratulations to Drs. Nour M. Moussa, Hugh G. McKenzie, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Olga I. Goriunova and Andrzej W. Weber on the recent publication of their article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Title: Insights into Lake Baikal's ancient populations based on genetic evidence from the Early Neolithic Shamanka II and Early Bronze Age Kurma XI cemeteries Authors: Nour M. Moussa, Hugh G. McKenzie, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Olga [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-03-22T10:17:26-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Goriunova, Moussa, Weber, McKenzie, Bazaliiskii|

Insights into Lake Baikal’s ancient populations based on genetic evidence from the Early Neolithic Shamanka II and Early Bronze Age Kurma XI cemeteries

Although previous ancient DNA research has contributed to the investigation of middle Holocene culture history and population dynamics in the Cis-Baikal, most of this work has been limited to the Angara valley and southwest Baikal, with only restricted genetic analysis of skeletal materials from the Little Sea microregion. In this paper, we expand upon initial findings by analyzing new mtDNA results from the EN/EBA Kurma XI cemetery (Little Sea area) and the EN Shamanka II cemetery (southwest Baikal). [...]

Erin2021-10-05T16:31:35-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Moussa, Weber, McKenzie, Goriunova, Bazaliiskii|

Middle Holocene hunter–gatherer mortuary practices in the Little Sea microregion on Lake Baikal, part II: Late Neolithic

This is the second in a series of two papers dedicated to the examination of Neolithic mortuary variation within the Little Sea microregion of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia. The first study, appearing also in this special issue, reviewed the Early Neolithic (EN) mortuary material (Goriunova et al., 2020), whereas the goal of this paper is to summarize the available archaeological material referred to as the Serovo mortuary tradition of the Little Sea area (henceforth, the Little Sea–Serovo). The focus [...]

Erin2021-04-08T14:21:17-06:00Categories: Journal Articles, Publications|Tags: Weber, Novikov, Goriunova|

International Day of Women & Girls in Science!

February 11th was the International Day of Women & Girls in Science. We'd like to take this opportunity to celebrate the wonderful women of BAP.* We're lucky to have you! *Newest addition to our BAP Women in Science group: Karolina Werens, MSc Archaeological Science, University of Oxford!

Andrea Hiob2020-02-18T11:16:13-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Zagorska, Reimer, Laughton, Michelman, Bourgeois, White, Wagner, Zariņa, Lieverse, Goriunova, Kobe, van der Haas|

The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

The Yamnaya expansions from the western steppe into Europe and Asia during the Early Bronze Age (~3000 BCE) are believed to have brought with them Indo-European languages and possibly horse husbandry. We analyzed 74 ancient whole-genome sequences from across Inner Asia and Anatolia and show that the Botai people associated with the earliest horse husbandry derived from a hunter-gatherer population deeply diverged from the Yamnaya. Our results also suggest distinct migrations bringing West Eurasian ancestry into South Asia [...]

pderas2020-06-30T11:03:25-06:00Categories: Journal Articles, Publications|Tags: Willerslev, Weber, Goriunova, Bazaliiskii|

Dr. Nour Moussa article in JAS: Reports

Dr. Nour Moussa would like to share her article in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports with us! Title: "Y-chromosomal DNA analyzed for four prehistoric cemeteries from Cis-Baikal, Siberia" Abstract: The Lake Baikal region of Siberia was home to two temporally distinct populations from Early Neolithic, EN (7500–7000 cal BP) to Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age, LN-EBA (5570–3725 cal BP). The EN group was separated from the LN-EBA group by a ~ 1500-year gap (hiatus), and during this hiatus no human remains have been [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:31:56-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Goriunova, Weber, Bazaliiskii|

BAP is featured in ‘The Nature of Things: The Code Breakers’

BAP is featured in the documentary The Code Breakers, produced for The Nature of Things by Clearwater Media Inc. https://youtu.be/GDps0P-Bcfk?t=878

Erin2019-03-18T11:07:25-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Weber, Novikov, Goriunova, Bazaliiskii|

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, [...]

Erin2024-02-07T14:44:06-07:00Categories: Books & Monographs, Publications|Tags: Goriunova, German Archaeological Institute, Wagner, Weber, McKenzie, Lieverse|

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 [...]

Erin2019-03-19T11:37:45-06:00Categories: Books & Monographs, Publications|Tags: Bazaliiskii, Weber, Novikov, McKenzie, Lieverse, Goriunova|

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 [...]

Erin2019-03-19T12:19:45-06:00Categories: Books & Monographs, Publications|Tags: Weber, Novikov, McKenzie, Goriunova, Bazaliiskii|