As his retirement approaches, and the BAP starts to wind down some of its activities, we want to thank him for all the time and energy he's devoted making this project a success. We couldn't have done it without him! 2/2
Our featured team member for February is Dr. Andrzej Weber (@ualberta.bsky.social). Dr Weber is the beating heart of the BAP: over the last 30 years he's supported countless researchers, secured funding, and kept this unwieldy train on its tracks πΊ 1/2
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! πΊ
π¨ New publication alert! π¨ Our most sincere congratulations to BAP team members Drs Alexei Novikov, Olga Goriunova and Andrzej Weber for the publication of their monograph on the #LateNeolithicβ#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!
π¨New publication alert!π¨ 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
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...
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!
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...
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...
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.
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 π₯Ί
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 (βΌοΈ)and his research focuses on #Quaternary #chronology and #palaeoecology. Check out his page to learn more!
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 πΊ
September's featured team member is Dr Klervia Jaouen (GΓ©osciences 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!
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!
Our recent monograph on the hunter-gatherer Shamanka II cemetery is available online in open access! It's a bit (ok, more than a bit) oversized but the general structure could be helpful.
doi.org/10.34780/8ht...
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!
Congratulations!! π
I love this photo by current DPhil in Archaeological Science, Karolina Werens, taken in our lab
@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social
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.socialβ¬). 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 ZariΕa (University of Latvia). Dr ZariΕa's work focuses on the development of agriculture in #Latvia and the corresponding dietary, health & reproductive changes for ancient Latvians. Click to learn more! πΊ
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! πΊ
A group of archaeologists pose for a photo in a conference room. They look jet-lagged but happy.
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! β±οΈ
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! πΊ
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! πΊ
π¨Publication alert!π¨ 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!! π₯³π₯³π₯³
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Our first featured team member of 2025 is Dr. Pavel Tarasov (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social). Dr Tarasov reconstructs palaeoenvironments on a regional scale, helping us understand humanβenvironment interactions in the past. He's also a supervisor extraordinaire!
