Baikal Archaeology Project
@baikalap.bsky.social
We are an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers exploring prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifeways in Northeast Asia. Visit us at www.baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca
Our first featured team member of 2026 is Mr. Vladimir Bazaliiskii (Irkutsk State University). Mr Bazaliiskii is an expert on the prehistoric mortuary rituals of #LakeBaikal, especially in the #Neolithic and #EarlyBronzeAge periods. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
BAZALIISKII Vladimir - Baikal Archaeology Project
Mr. Vladimir Bazaliiskii is a long-time member of BAP, associated with the Scientific Research Centre “Baikalskii Region” at Irkutsk State University. He was responsible for the excavations of many o...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Our first featured team member of 2026 is Mr. Vladimir Bazaliiskii (Irkutsk State University). Mr Bazaliiskii is an expert on the prehistoric mortuary rituals of #LakeBaikal, especially in the #Neolithic and #EarlyBronzeAge periods. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Our most sincere congratulations to BAP team members Drs Alexei Novikov, Olga Goriunova and Andrzej Weber for the publication of their monograph on the #LateNeolithic–#EarlyBronzeAge Tuakhane IX cemetery on the coast of #LakeBaikal.
The Tuakhane IX cemetery on the coast of Baikal: Neolithic – Bronze Age [in Russian] - Baikal Archaeology Project
This monograph is dedicated to culture-historical analysis of the mortuary assemblages documented at Tuakhane IX – one of the large and completely excavated prehistoric cemeteries of the Cis-Baikal…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Our most sincere congratulations to BAP team members Drs Alexei Novikov, Olga Goriunova and Andrzej Weber for the publication of their monograph on the #LateNeolithic–#EarlyBronzeAge Tuakhane IX cemetery on the coast of #LakeBaikal.
Our last featured team member of 2025 is Dr Olga Goriunova (Irkutsk State University). Dr Goriunova is one of BAP's founding members and a preeminent scholar in the prehistoric cultures of the #LakeBaikal region. Check out her page to learn more!
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December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our last featured team member of 2025 is Dr Olga Goriunova (Irkutsk State University). Dr Goriunova is one of BAP's founding members and a preeminent scholar in the prehistoric cultures of the #LakeBaikal region. Check out her page to learn more!
🚨New publication alert!🚨 Dr Pavel Tarasov @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social & his team have a new paper in Global and Planetary Change looking at environmental & cultural transformations in the #LakeBaikal region. This paper is positively stacked with BAP superstars. Congratulations to all coauthors!
Environmental and cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal Region reflect hemispheric-scale changes in temperature and atmospheric circulation over the past 8800 years - Baikal Archaeology Project
Characterised by heterogeneous microclimatic conditions, a sharp vegetation gradient and a rich archaeological record, Olkhon Island offers a unique setting to investigate past climate change and its…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🚨New publication alert!🚨 Dr Pavel Tarasov @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social & his team have a new paper in Global and Planetary Change looking at environmental & cultural transformations in the #LakeBaikal region. This paper is positively stacked with BAP superstars. Congratulations to all coauthors!
Congratulations to BAP graduate student Linda Habermann who successfully defended her Master's thesis! Linda has earned a Master's of Geological Sciences from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for her project using lake core sediments to deduce environmental changes in the #LakeBaikal region
HABERMANN Linda-Helen - Baikal Archaeology Project
Ms. Linda-Helen Habermann successfully completed her Master's of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Pavel Tarasov. Her Master's project was entitled…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Congratulations to BAP graduate student Linda Habermann who successfully defended her Master's thesis! Linda has earned a Master's of Geological Sciences from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for her project using lake core sediments to deduce environmental changes in the #LakeBaikal region
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New publication on archaeology & Japanese eco-nationalism. Had a lot of fun writing this over the summer. My co-author Claudia Zancan provided several new insights that had not occurred to me before, especially with respect to the Kofun period.
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Frontiers | Environmental archaeology and eco-nativist discourse in modern Japan
Claims that Japanese society has lived in “harmony” with Nature and can therefore provide lessons for global sustainability have a long history. While such “...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
New publication on archaeology & Japanese eco-nationalism. Had a lot of fun writing this over the summer. My co-author Claudia Zancan provided several new insights that had not occurred to me before, especially with respect to the Kofun period.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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A huge congratulations to *former* BAP PhD student Dr Corrie Hyland who successfully defended her dissertation and has begun her Postdoc in #stableisotopes with the Seeing the Dead project at @york.ac.uk. This is a very cool project and we're excited to see where it goes!
Corrie Hyland hired as Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Seeing the Dead Project! - Baikal Archaeology Project
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November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A huge congratulations to *former* BAP PhD student Dr Corrie Hyland who successfully defended her dissertation and has begun her Postdoc in #stableisotopes with the Seeing the Dead project at @york.ac.uk. This is a very cool project and we're excited to see where it goes!
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What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...
Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis
Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...
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Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
November's featured team member is Dr Yucheng Wang (@cam.ac.uk). Dr Wang's work on ancient environmental DNA #aeDNA is a relatively new addition to the project and we're all excited about the possibilities! Check out his page to learn more.
WANG Yucheng - Baikal Archaeology Project
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November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
November's featured team member is Dr Yucheng Wang (@cam.ac.uk). Dr Wang's work on ancient environmental DNA #aeDNA is a relatively new addition to the project and we're all excited about the possibilities! Check out his page to learn more.
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Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.
We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.
Archaeologists 🥺
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We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.
Archaeologists 🥺
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October 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.
We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.
Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.
Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
This month's featured team member is Dr Dustin White (@york.ac.uk). Dr White's been with the BAP since the beginning (‼️)and his research focuses on #Quaternary #chronology and #palaeoecology. Check out his page to learn more!
WHITE Dustin - Baikal Archaeology Project
Dr. Dustin White is a Research Fellow at the University of York and is one of the founding members of the Baikal Archaeology Project, having conducted fieldwork in the region since 1999. His main area...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This month's featured team member is Dr Dustin White (@york.ac.uk). Dr White's been with the BAP since the beginning (‼️)and his research focuses on #Quaternary #chronology and #palaeoecology. Check out his page to learn more!
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I did one this afternoon and it was honestly the best way to end the week - feeling excited to be bringing the joy and wonder of archaeology to a brand new audience 🏺
In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise.
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I run @skypeascientist.bsky.social which matches scientists w/classrooms, libraries, etc for Q&As.
We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.
We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I did one this afternoon and it was honestly the best way to end the week - feeling excited to be bringing the joy and wonder of archaeology to a brand new audience 🏺
September's featured team member is Dr Klervia Jaouen (Géosciences Environnement Toulouse). Dr Jaouen's work with BAP involves examining #zinc, #strontium, #carbon & #nitrogen #isotopes in the humans and animals of #Holocene Lake Baikal. Check out her page to learn more!
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September 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Great to see so many of the School's staff highlighted in this @ox.ac.uk feature - Profs Schulting, Ramsey, Barton & Smith & Drs Hulin & Styring all investigating different evidence for how humans have responded historically to #climatechange. www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-... #archeaology past & future!
Culture, education and attitudes
Experts at Oxford are working to understand our past climate history, uncover how our perceptions are shaped by the media, and emphasising the important role of the humanities in helping to tackle the...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Great to see so many of the School's staff highlighted in this @ox.ac.uk feature - Profs Schulting, Ramsey, Barton & Smith & Drs Hulin & Styring all investigating different evidence for how humans have responded historically to #climatechange. www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-... #archeaology past & future!
This month's featured team member is Dr Andrea Czermak (@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social). Dr Czermak has been applying her methods for sequential #dentine sampling to BAP materials for a number of years. We couldn't do it without her!
CZERMAK Andrea - Baikal Archaeology Project
Dr. Andrea Czermak is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. She is a trained biologist who specializes in sequential tooth dentine analysis to reconstruct early life histories of ind...
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August 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This month's featured team member is Dr Andrea Czermak (@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social). Dr Czermak has been applying her methods for sequential #dentine sampling to BAP materials for a number of years. We couldn't do it without her!
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I love this photo by current DPhil in Archaeological Science, Karolina Werens, taken in our lab
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She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
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She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
June 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I love this photo by current DPhil in Archaeological Science, Karolina Werens, taken in our lab
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She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
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She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
July's featured team member is Dr Franziska Kobe (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social). Franziska is a former BAP PhD student and now offers her palynological and environmental reconstruction expertise as a scientific service. Check out her page to learn more!
KOBE Franziska - Baikal Archaeology Project
Franziska Kobe (Paleontology Section, Institute of Geological Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin) got her master’s degree from the Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
July's featured team member is Dr Franziska Kobe (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social). Franziska is a former BAP PhD student and now offers her palynological and environmental reconstruction expertise as a scientific service. Check out her page to learn more!
This month's featured team member is Dr Gunita Zariņa (University of Latvia). Dr Zariņa's work focuses on the development of agriculture in #Latvia and the corresponding dietary, health & reproductive changes for ancient Latvians. Click to learn more! 🏺
ZARIŅA Gunita - Baikal Archaeology Project
Dr. Gunita Zariņa is senior researcher and head of the Bioarchaeological repository of institute of Latvian History of University of Latvia. Her research interests are related to demographics, nutriti...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This month's featured team member is Dr Gunita Zariņa (University of Latvia). Dr Zariņa's work focuses on the development of agriculture in #Latvia and the corresponding dietary, health & reproductive changes for ancient Latvians. Click to learn more! 🏺
May's featured team member is @rschulting.bsky.social (@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social). Dr Schulting uses #stableisotopes and #C14dating to reconstruct the lifeways of Holocene hunter-gatherers at #LakeBaikal. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
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May 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
May's featured team member is @rschulting.bsky.social (@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social). Dr Schulting uses #stableisotopes and #C14dating to reconstruct the lifeways of Holocene hunter-gatherers at #LakeBaikal. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
The BAP team is just wrapping up a productive set of meetings in Istanbul. Grateful for the opportunity to get together and exchange ideas, ask questions & make plans! ⚱️
May 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The BAP team is just wrapping up a productive set of meetings in Istanbul. Grateful for the opportunity to get together and exchange ideas, ask questions & make plans! ⚱️
This month's featured team member is Dr Dan Temple (@GeorgeMasonU). Dr Temple studies growth, stress & resilience among pre-adult #huntergatherers of the #LakeBaikal region. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
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March 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This month's featured team member is Dr Dan Temple (@GeorgeMasonU). Dr Temple studies growth, stress & resilience among pre-adult #huntergatherers of the #LakeBaikal region. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
February's featured team member is Dr. Tengwen Long (University of Nottingham Ningbo China). Dr. Long's work is wide-ranging, covering #c14dating and modeling, #palaeoecology & #geoarchaeology. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
LONG Tengwen - Baikal Archaeology Project
Dr. Tengwen Long is Associate Professor in Geographical Sciences at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research interests cover a range of topics in physical geography, with a particular e...
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February 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
February's featured team member is Dr. Tengwen Long (University of Nottingham Ningbo China). Dr. Long's work is wide-ranging, covering #c14dating and modeling, #palaeoecology & #geoarchaeology. Check out his page to learn more! 🏺
🚨Publication alert!🚨 Congratulations to BAP authors Schulting et al. for their new paper in Radiocarbon, now available as FirstView. Unraveling this mystery was a real team effort!
A 350 14C yr discrepancy between bone and tooth dates from the same grave at the Early Neolithic cemetery of Shamanka II, Lake Baikal, southern Siberia: reservoir effects or a misplaced mandible? - Ba...
A 350 14C yr discrepancy was found between dates on postcranial remains and mandibular teeth on what was thought to be the same individual from the Early Neolithic cemetery of Shamanka II, Lake Baikal...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🚨Publication alert!🚨 Congratulations to BAP authors Schulting et al. for their new paper in Radiocarbon, now available as FirstView. Unraveling this mystery was a real team effort!
Our huge, heartfelt congratulations to BAP team member Dr. Ruairidh Macleod (University of Cambridge) for the successful defense of his PhD dissertation. Ruairidh has now started his postdoctoral research at @ucl.ac.uk. Congratulations Ruairidh!! 🥳🥳🥳
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Dr. Ruairidh Macleod successfully defends PhD dissertation! - Baikal Archaeology Project
Congratulations to Dr. Ruairidh Macleod, BAP PhD student at University of Cambridge, for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!
On Wednesday the 18th of December, Ruairidh ('Rory') Macleod succ...
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January 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Our huge, heartfelt congratulations to BAP team member Dr. Ruairidh Macleod (University of Cambridge) for the successful defense of his PhD dissertation. Ruairidh has now started his postdoctoral research at @ucl.ac.uk. Congratulations Ruairidh!! 🥳🥳🥳
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