Baikal Archaeology Project

Name: Baikal Archaeology Project
Address: Department of Anthropology, University of, Edmonton, AB, CA
Telephone: +17804929269

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We are an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers exploring prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifeways in Northeast Asia.

02/03/2026

Our featured team member for February is Dr. Andrzej Weber (.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. 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!

Dr. Andrzej Weber is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and Director of the Baikal Archaeology Project (BAP). His research interests include archaeology of individual life histories; carbon, nitrogen, and strontium isotope analyses; mobility and migrations; di...

01/06/2026

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 Lake Baikal, especially in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods. Check out his page to learn more!

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 of the most significant cemeteries in the region, including Lokomotiv, Ust-Ida I and, most recentl...

12/03/2025

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 Lake Baikal region. Check out her page to learn more!

Dr. Olga Goriunova is a Senior Research Associate in the Scientific Research Centre “Baikalskii Region”at Irkutsk State University. She has played a pivotal role in the Baikal Archaeology Project's Russian excavations and research as our regional coordinator. Her research involves: prehistoric c...

11/26/2025

🚨New publication alert!🚨 Dr Pavel Tarasov (.bsky.social) & his team have a new paper in Global and Planetary Change looking at environmental & cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal region. This paper is positively stacked with BAP superstars. Congratulations to all coauthors!

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 potential influence on cultural trajectories in the Lake Baikal Region (LBR). Palynological and geoc...

11/24/2025

Congratulations to BAP graduate student Linda Habermann who successfully defended her Master's thesis! Linda has earned a Master's of Geological Sciences from Freie Universität Berlin for her project using lake core sediments to deduce environmental changes in the Lake Baikal region.

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 "Vegetation history and environmental changes on Olkhon Island of Lake Baikal during the Younger Dryas an...

11/21/2025

A huge congratulations to *former* BAP PhD student Dr Corrie Hyland who successfully defended her dissertation and has begun her Postdoc in stable isotopes with the Seeing the Dead project at the University of York. This is a very cool project and we're excited to see where it goes!

Dr. Corrie Hyland has begun working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Stable Isotopes at the University of York for the Seeing the Dead project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of UK Research and Innovation. The Seeing the Dead project investigates the funerary custom, attest...

11/04/2025

November's featured team member is Dr Yucheng Wang (University of Cambridge). Dr Wang's work on ancient environmental DNA is a relatively new addition to the project and we're all excited about the possibilities! Check out his page to learn more.

Dr. Yucheng Wang is a Research Associate at University of Cambridge working on ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA, also known as sedimentary ancient DNA, sedaDNA). He has been involved in the Baikal Archaeology Project since 2019 when he was based at Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen. H...

10/08/2025

This month's featured team member is Dr Dustin White (University of York). 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!

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 areas of research include geoarchaeology, Quaternary stratigraphy and chronology, palaeopedology, malaco...

09/02/2025

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!

Dr. Klervia Jaouen is a CNRS researcher at the department of Geosciences and Environment (GET/ Géosciences Environnement Toulouse) at the Observatory Midi Pyrénées in Toulouse, where she is currently conducting an ERC Starting Grant Program (ARCHEIS) focusing on the use of novel isotopic tools su...

08/05/2025

This month's featured team member is Dr Andrea Czermak (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford). 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!

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 individuals. Andrea has developed and applied new refined methods for dentine analysis and micro-sampli...

07/04/2025

July's featured team member is Dr Franziska Kobe (Freie Universität Berlin‬). 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!

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 Universität Berlin (FUB). She was a Ph.D. student with the Baikal Archaeology Project under the...

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+17804929269

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https://baikalproject.artsrn.ualberta.ca/

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