Special issue of Quaternary International, provisionally titled 'The Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project: Environmental Archives, Proxies and Reconstruction Approaches' has been initiated
June 6, 2012
Based on the idea first announced at the BHAP Start-up Meeting held in Sapporo, Japan in July 2011, a special issue of Quaternary International, provisionally titled 'The Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project: Environmental Archives, Proxies and Reconstruction Approaches' was initiated.
Guest Editors are Pavel Tarasov, Dustin White and Andrzej Weber. Our basic idea is to summarize in one volume state-of-the-art research results and methods, which help to reconstruct past climate and environments in the vast areas of Inner Asia and North-Western Pacific and could serve for a better understanding of the archaeological records and human dynamics in the focus regions. Other important aims of this volume are to indicate gaps in the current knowledge, which should be filled by the environmental part of the project, and to bring up some ideas on how these gaps can be filled.
Invited papers cover a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including pollen, diatom, oxygen isotope and geophysical analyses of lake sediments, quantitative vegetation and climate reconstructions and simulations of interglacial climate and vegetation cover in NE Asia, and others introduce the aims and scopes of the Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project (BHAP) and recent work in Holocene hunter-gatherer prehistory as a common denominator of the entire material.
Upon the agreement with the Editor-in-Chief the final deadline for all completed manuscripts was set 1st May 2012. Some papers which complete the Quaternary International review process are available on-line in 'early view'. We hope this information will be interesting for the BHAP community
Pavel Tarasov (guest editor)
Dustin White (guest editor)
Andrzej Weber (guest editor)
Holocene sedimentary records from Lake Borsog, eastern shore of Lake Khuvsgul, Mongolia, and their paleoenvironmental implications, Quaternary International, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 March 2012. A. Orkhonselenge, S.K. Krivonogov, K. Mino, K. Kashiwaya, I.Y. Safonova, M. Yamamoto, K. Kashima, T. Nakamura, J.Y. Kim.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.041
Atlas of pollen, spores and further non-pollen palynomorphs recorded in the glacial-interglacial late Quaternary sediments of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan, Quaternary International, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 February 2012. Dieter Demske, Pavel E. Tarasov, Takeshi Nakagawa, Suigetsu 2006 Project Members.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.002
Last glacial vegetation reconstructions in the extreme-continental eastern Asia: Potentials of pollen and n-alkane biomarker analyses, Quaternary International, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 April 2012. Pavel E. Tarasov, Stefanie Müller, Michael Zech, Darima Andreeva, Bernhard Diekmann, Christian Leipe.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.007
Archaeological and palaeopathological study on the third/second century BC grave from Turfan, China: Individual health history and regional implications, Quaternary International, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 May 2012.
Xiao Li, Mayke Wagner, Xiaohong Wu, Pavel Tarasov, Yongbin Zhang, Arno Schmidt, Tomasz Goslar, Julia Gresky.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.010
Holocene oxygen isotope record of diatoms from Lake Kotokel (southern Siberia, Russia) and its palaeoclimatic implications, Quaternary International, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 May 2012. Svetlana S. Kostrova, Hanno Meyer, Bernhard Chapligin, Annette Kossler, Elena V. Bezrukova, Pavel E. Tarasov.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.011