van der Haas

Congratulations to Dr. Victoria van der Haas on the recent publication of her book by Archaeopress! Title: Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia: Reconstructing the childhood diets of Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers This volume analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this [...]

June 12th was the University of Alberta’s 2020 Spring Convocation. Our very own Dr. Victoria van der Haas was featured in Faculty of Arts Anthology: “…from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, this mini-profile of Victoria van der Haas (PhD Anthropology)”: CLASS OF 2020, Victoria van der Haas, '20 PhD (Anthropology) Faculty of Arts: Pursuing a PhD pushed me in ways I never imagined. I always knew I could work hard and independently, but I never knew how much [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Victoria van der Haas, BAP PhD student at University of Alberta, for successfully defending her PhD dissertation on December 18th! Victoria's supervisor was Dr. Andrzej Weber, and her committee members were Dr. Sandra Garvie-Lok, Dr. Lesley Harrington, Dr. Kisha Supernant, Dr. Janet Montgomery and Dr. Mark Nuttall (chair). Title: "Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia: Reconstructing childhood diet of Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers" Abstract: Cis-Baikal is a region in Siberia, Russia, that provides unique [...]

Congratulations to Victoria van der Haas, BAP PhD student, on being awarded the Clifford H. Skitch Travel Fund Award and the University of Alberta Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Travel Award! Victoria’s award totals $1,453.00 CAD and will be used to attend the upcoming AAPA Meetings in Cleveland (http://physanth.org/annual-meetings/88th-annual-meeting-2019/) Kudos to Victoria!