Baikal Archaeology Project
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada

Congratulations to Kobe et al. on their new paper in Quaternary International on the LateglacialHolocene environments of the Upper Lena region of Eastern Siberia based on data from a sediment core from Lake Ochaul.

October's featured team member is Dr Christian Leipe (Freie Universität Berlin, Nagoya University). Dr Leipe is a post-doctoral researcher whose work helps us reconstruct environmental changes in the Baikal region during the middle & late Holocene.

This month's featured team member is Dr Peter Jordan (Lund University). Dr Jordan's work focuses on how the prehistoric hunter-gatherers from Lake Baikal saw themselves , each other and the world around them . Talk about the big picture!

We'd also like to welcome aboard DPhil candidate Corrie Hyland (University of Oxford). Corrie's work will help refine the oh-so-important freshwater reservoir corrections we rely on to accurately date our hunter-gatherers from Lake Baikal. Welcome Corrie!

We are delighted to report we have found a new and improved lab to hold our BAP collections at Irkutsk State University. Stolovaia (столовая) used to serve as a student cafeteria but we've been told that doesn't mean we should expect free snacks...

Happy Fall! This month's featured team member is Dr Gunita Zarina (Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia). Dr Zarina's current research focuses on stable isotopes and the diet of ancient Latvians. Click the link to learn more!

August's featured team member is Dr Ilga Zagorska (Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia). Dr Zagorska has organized countless archaeological excavations and is a specialist in the East Baltic Stone Age. Visit her page to learn more!

Congratulations to BAP USask graduate student Rebecca Bourgeois for successfully defending her MA thesis!

This month's featured team member is Dr Mayke Wagner (German Archaeological Institute). Dr Wagner is a specialist in Chinese & East Asian archaeology and the PI of several large projects, including "Silk Road Fashion: Vestimentary knowledge in central and eastern Asia from 2nd Millennium BC to 1st Millennium AD" and Bridging Eurasia: Settlement history and climate change in Northeast Asia since the last Ice Age. Visit her page to learn more!

Congratulations to Alyssa White and coauthors for a new paper based on her master's research out this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Individual mobility, sex-based dietary distinctions - this paper's got it all!