Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Seals and hunters on Lake Baikal in Siberia
Thursday January 26th, 2012
11:30 – 1:00 pm, ANSO 134
Dr. Tatiana Nomokonova
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UBC
Abstract:
Sealing on Siberia’s Lake Baikal was carried out by several hunter-gatherer and pastoralist groups throughout the Holocene, and small-scale hunting of these animals is still conducted here by indigenous populations. Bones of Baikal seals are commonly found during excavations of the region’s habitation sites but also are seen in ‘ritual’ stone features, caves, human burials, and in rock art, suggesting an important role of these animals in local diets, subsistence practices, and worldviews. Dr. Nomokonova’s talk is based on her recent ethnoarchaeological and zooarchaeological studies in the Lake Baikal region.
