Andrzej Weber
Environmental history of middle Holocene Siberia and hunter-gatherer culture change: A case study from the Baikal region
Department of Anthropology University of AlbertaEdmonton, 17 Jan., 2006
Baikal Archaeology Project
Location
Main support
SSHRC MCRI grants $2.3 million 2001-2006 $2.5 million 2006-2011
Additional support
University of Alberta Canadian Circumpolar Institute Irkutsk State University, Russia University of Calgary University of Aberdeen Research Council of Norway
Project structure: research modules
Archaeology Paleoenvironment Ethnoarchaeolgy Bioarchaeology Human genetics module
Participants
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
Project scope and rationale
Fieldwork location
KUR
K14
LOK
UID
SHA
BUR
BAS
Teeth: Sr87/Sr86
C13
O18
Bone: Sr87/Sr86 C13
N15
O18 C14
Vertebrae: DNA
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
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
Fieldwork opportunities
Little SeaBelaia R.
Tunka valley
Project needs and potential IPY support
Research dissemination Academic Outreach programs
International collaboration Research infrastructure in Russia
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
Thank you