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Christian Leipe article published in Science Advances

Congratulations to Christian Leipe and other BAP team members on their recent article published in Science Advances! Title: Discontinuous spread of millet agriculture in eastern Asia and prehistoric population dynamics Authors: Leipe C, Long T, Sergusheva EA, Wagner M, Tarasov PE. Abstract: Although broomcorn and foxtail millet are among the earliest staple crop domesticates, their spread and impacts on demography remain controversial, mainly because of the use of indirect evidence. Bayesian modeling applied to a dataset of new and [...]

Andrea Hiob2020-06-30T11:13:45-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov, Wagner|

Moisture origin and stable isotope characteristics of precipitation in southeast Siberia

The paper presents oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of 284 precipitation event samples systematically collected in Irkutsk, in the Baikal region (southeast Siberia), between June 2011 and April 2017. This is the first high‐resolution dataset of stable isotopes of precipitation from this poorly studied region of continental Asia, which has a high potential for isotope‐based palaeoclimate research. The dataset revealed distinct seasonal variations: relatively high δ18O (up to −4‰) and δD (up to −40‰) values characterize summer air masses, [...]

Andrea Hiob2021-12-01T14:23:30-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Tarasov|

Svetlana Kostrova and Pavel Tarasov article published in Hydrological Processes

Congratulations to Svetlana Kostrova, colleague of Pavel Tarasov and friend of the BAP, on the recent publication of their article in Hydrological Processes! Dr. Kostrova is from the Institute of Geochemistry, Irkutsk and AWI-Potsdam, and the article discusses moisture origin and stable isotope characteristics of precipitation in the Irkutsk Region of southeast Siberia. The paper was first published 15 August 2019. Title: Moisture origin and stable isotope characteristics of precipitation in southeast Siberia Authors: Kostrova SS, Meyer H, Fernandoy [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-11-21T10:57:09-07:00Categories: News|Tags: Tarasov|

Special Issue: Climate change and human-environment interaction from Neolithic to historical times

The idea of the special issue “Climate change and human-environment interaction from Neolithic to historical times” arose from a session bearing the same name, which has been organized by the Commission on Environment Evolution of the International Geographical Union under the framework of the 33rd International Geographical Congress held in Beijing (PR China) in August, 2016. This volume is focused on multi-disciplinary studies of landscape evolution, climate dynamics and human activity in different regions of the world during [...]

Erin2022-04-27T12:46:06-06:00Categories: Publications, Special Issues|Tags: Tarasov|

Heterogeneous vegetation sensitivity at local and regional scales: Implications for pollen-based climate reconstruction

Vegetation–climate relationships are often different at varying spatial scales, which is seldom taken into account in reconstructing past climate changes from fossil pollen spectra represent more local vegetation composition but using regional or extra-regional modern pollen–climate calibration set. In this paper, we employ 2620 surface pollen spectra and six pollen sequences from continental East Asia to reconstruct Holocene climate with modern analogue technique. A novel data set of vegetation sensitivity index (VSI) is introduced to examine vegetation–climate relationships [...]

Erin2020-08-04T10:43:14-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Tarasov|

Postglacial vegetation and climate history and traces of early human impact and agriculture in the present-day cool mixed forest zone of European Russia

This study is based on the reassessment and correlation of five pollen records from the upper Western Dvina River region. For the most complete record (Korovinskoe Mire; 56°16′N, 31°20′E) we constructed a Bayesian age-depth model to provide robust chronological control for the reconstructed changes in the regional environments and to facilitate interregional comparisons. The results show that the Holocene Thermal Maximum in the study region (ca. 8600–6900 cal BP) started and ended some centuries earlier than suggested for the [...]

Erin2020-07-07T11:06:39-06:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov|

Insight into the Last Glacial Maximum climate and environments of the Baikal region

This study presents a multi-proxy record from Lake Kotokel in the Baikal region at decadal-to-multidecadal resolution and provides a reconstruction of terrestrial and aquatic environments in the area during a 2000-year interval of globally harsh climate often referred to as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The studied lake is situated near the eastern shoreline of Lake Baikal, in a climatically sensitive zone that hosts boreal taiga and cold deciduous forests, cold steppe associations typical for northern Mongolia, and [...]

Erin2021-12-03T11:18:01-07:00Categories: Publications, Journal Articles|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov|

Pavel Tarasov gives public lecture at the Institute of Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)

Pavel Tarasov gave a public lecture within the framework of the BAP at the Institute of Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch) in the Akademgorodok of Irkutsk on March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. The title of his lecture was "Environments during the spread of anatomically modern humans across Asia: What do we know and what would we like to know?" The 60 minute lecture was presented in Russian in the conference hall of the Institute of [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-05-21T11:55:08-06:00Categories: Media & Public Outreach|Tags: Tarasov|

Dr. Pavel Tarasov and Dr. Christian Leipe research update from Siberia!

Exciting research update from Dr. Christian Leipe: Pavel and I are back from Siberia. It was a successful and interesting trip even with lots of snow and ice, which I haven’t seen for a long time. We would like to share some photos and information for the next newsletter. Here are the captions for the photos attached. Pavel Tarasov giving a public lecture within the framework of the BAP at the Institute of Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences [...]

Andrea Hiob2019-05-21T11:55:41-06:00Categories: News|Tags: Leipe, Tarasov|

Late glacial and early Holocene environments and human occupation in Brandenburg, eastern Germany

The paper reports on the results of the pollen, plant macrofossil and geochemical analyses and the AMS 14C-based chronology of the «Rüdersdorf» outcrop situated east of Berlin in Brandenburg (Germany). The postglacial landscape changed from an open one to generally forested by ca. 14 cal. kyr BP. Woody plants (mainly birch and pine) contributed up to 85% to the pollen assemblages ca. 13.4–12.5 cal. kyr BP. The subsequent Younger Dryas (YD) interval is characterized by a decrease in [...]

pderas2020-06-30T10:59:12-06:00Categories: Journal Articles, Publications|Tags: Leipe, Kobe, Tarasov, Wagner|