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Andrzej Weber

Baikal Archaeology Project. Environmental history of middle Holocene Siberia and hunter-gatherer culture change: A case study from the Baikal region. Department of Anthropology University of Alberta Edmonton, 17 Jan., 2006. Andrzej Weber. Location. Main support. SSHRC MCRI grants

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Andrzej Weber

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  1. Baikal Archaeology Project Environmental history of middle Holocene Siberia and hunter-gatherer culture change: A case study from the Baikal region Department of Anthropology University of Alberta Edmonton, 17 Jan., 2006 Andrzej Weber

  2. Location

  3. Main support • SSHRC MCRI grants • $2.3 million 2001-2006 • $2.5 million 2006-2011

  4. Additional support • University of Alberta • Canadian Circumpolar Institute • Irkutsk State University, Russia • University of Calgary • University of Aberdeen • Research Council of Norway

  5. Project structure: research modules • Archaeology • Paleoenvironment • Ethnoarchaeolgy • Bioarchaeology • Human genetics module

  6. University of Alberta Anthropology Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Renewable Recourses University of Calgary University of Pennsylvania Irkutsk State University Irkutsk State Technical University University of Aberdeen University of Cambridge University Coll. London Participants

  7. Project scope and rationale

  8. Fieldwork location BAS KUR K14 UID BUR LOK SHA

  9. Teeth: Sr87/Sr86 C13 O18 Bone: Sr87/Sr86 C13 N15 O18 C14 Vertebrae: DNA

  10. Summary of research findings • Genetic discontinuity • Health and demographic patterns • Subsistence and dietary patterns • Elements of social organization • Mortuary variability • Climatic change: periods of stability v. instability

  11. Current research objectives • Examination of the hunter-gatherer adaptation during the Middle Neolithic gap • Examination of the development and collapse of the hunter-gatherer increased social complexity • Role of the environment

  12. Fieldwork opportunities Little Sea Belaia R. Tunka valley

  13. Project needs and potential IPY support • Research dissemination • Academic • Outreach programs • International collaboration • Research infrastructure in Russia

  14. Relevance to IPY themes • Status • Ethnoarchaeology • Environment modules • Change • Global linkages • Comparative approach • international academic collaboration • New frontiers • Research infrastructure in the Baikal region • Human dimensions

  15. Thank you

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