Laughton - Baikal Archaeology Project

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: Lieverse, Weber, Laughton, Hyland, O'Shea, Macleod, Werens, Wang|

Dr. Angela Lieverse and Jennifer Laughton present at CABA-ACAB in Saskatoon, Oct. 26-28

Dr. Angela Lieverse and Jennifer Laughton recently presented papers at CABA-ACAB (Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology) meetings held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 27-28, 2022. Title: Laughton J. Plan-(oral)B: pivoting projects from biological to dental anthropology Title: Lieverse AR, Schulting R, Bazaliiskii VI, Kharinskii A & Weber AW. Hunter-Gatherer Violence at Shamanka II, Siberia: A Probable Middle Holocene Massacre Dr. Lieverse co-organized the conference, and still found time to take the nice photo at the banquet (Jen is third from [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-11-01T10:57:30-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Lieverse, Laughton|

Jennifer Laughton conducts laboratory work at University of Oxford!

Finally "in the field": In August, PhD student Jennifer Laughton spent three weeks in Oxford for dental data collection, spending numerous hours measuring and scanning Baikal and Zvejnieki teeth, in a space at ORAU kindly provided and supported by Dr. Rick Schulting. Having switched from bones to teeth due to the pandemic, she will be undertaking three dental anthropology projects, one of which involves studying interproximal wear facet size changes on teeth to assess dietary changes odontometrically. While in [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-10-24T13:09:45-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Laughton|

Jennifer Laughton presents at UofA Northern Research Day Conference and Frucht Lecture Series

Northern Research Day: March 22nd-23rd, 2022 https://circumpolarstudentassociation.weebly.com/northern-research-day-2022.html Northern Research Day is an annual student-organized conference for students doing research in the circumpolar north to present and share their work with others. It is hosted by the Circumpolar Students' Association and is sponsored by UAlberta North in tandem with the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAL). This year, Jennifer Laughton, who had received funding from UAlberta North and the Northern Student training Program (NSTP) gave a presentation of her research [...]

Andrea Hiob2022-04-19T14:43:06-06:00Categories: News, Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Laughton|

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: van der Haas, Kobe, Goriunova, Lieverse, Zagorska, Zariņa, Wagner, White, Bourgeois, Michelman, Laughton, Reimer|

Jennifer Laughton receives travel award!

Congratulations to Jennifer Laughton, BAP PhD student, on being awarded the Graduate Students’ Association Academic Travel Grant from the University of Alberta! Jennifer’s award totals $255.00 CAD and was used to attend the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology Meetings in Banff, Alberta, Canada. To check out Jennifer’s student profile, go here: https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/team/laughton-jennifer/ Kudos to Jennifer!

Andrea Hiob2019-12-05T10:26:32-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Laughton|