Angela Lieverse

BA University of Alberta 1996; MA University of Alberta 1999; PhD Cornell University 2005

Office: Archaeology 205
Phone: 966-7097
Email: angela.lieverse@usask.ca

Courses Taught and In Development

ARCH 112. The Human Journey: An Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

ARCH 270. Human Evolution

ARCH 470. Human Osteology

ARCH 472. Paleopathology

Links

The Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project [ http://baikal.arts.ualberta.ca/ ]

Current Graduate Students

Brianna Mack (Degenerative joint disease and activity reconstruction in middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Siberia)

Alison MacIntosh (Non-metric skeletal variation in Neolithic hunter-gatherers of the Cis-Baikal, Siberia) - successfully defended on March 25, 2011

Research

My research interests and expertise lay predominately with middle Holocene (7000-1000 BC) foragers of the Circumpolar North. Since 1997, I have conducted research in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia (Russia), excavating and examining the skeletal and dental remains of Neolithic through Bronze Age (5800-1700 BC) hunter-gatherers. My focus has been on ancient health and lifestyle reconstruction, ranging from dental indicators of physiological stress (dental enamel hypoplasia) to skeletal indicators of activity patterns and mobility (osteoarthritis and musculoskeletal stress markers). I am currently in the process of expanding my research to other Circumpolar regions, investigating ancient hunter-gatherers from the North Pacific (e.g., Hokkaido, Japan).

Publications

Selected Publications

Chapters in Books

Lieverse AR, Stock J, Katzenberg MA, Haverkort CM. 2011 The bioarchaeology of habitual behaviour and dietary change in the Siberian middle Holocene. In: Pinhasi R, Stock J (editors)

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 265-291.

Lieverse AR. 2010. Health and behavior in the mid-Holocene Cis-Baikal: biological

indicators of hunter-gatherer adaptation and cultural change. In: Weber AW, Katzenberg MA, Schurr T (editors) Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Lifeways. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, p. 135-173.

Lieverse AR, Weber AW, Goriunova OI. 2007. Human osteological remains, 1997-2001. In: Weber AW, Katzenberg MA, Goriunova OI (editors) Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, A Middle Holocene

Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Osteological Materials. Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series 3. Edmonton, AB: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, p. 11-

200.

Lieverse AR. 2007. Human taphonomy: variable skeletal condition and its cultural implications. In: Weber AW, Katzenberg MA, Goriunova OI (editors) Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, A Middle Holocene

Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Osteological Materials. Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series 3. Edmonton, AB: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, p. 201-216

Lieverse AR. 2007. Human osteological evidence: demography and health. In: Weber AW, Katzenberg MA, Goriunova OI (editors) Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, A Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer

Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Osteological Materials. Northern Hunter-Gatherers Research Series 3. Edmonton, AB: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, p. 217-234.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Lieverse AR, Bazaliiskii VB, Goriunova OI, Weber AW. 2009. Upper limb musculoskeletal stress markers among middle Holocene foragers of Siberia’s Cis-Baikal region. American Journal of

Physical Anthropology 138: 458-472

Lieverse AR, Metcalf MA, Bazaliiskiy VI, Weber AW. 2008. Pronounced bilateral asymmetry of the complete upper extremity: a case from the early Neolithic Baikal (Siberia). International

Journal of Osteoarchaeology 18(3):219-239.

Lieverse AR, Link DW, Bazaliiskiy VI, Goriunova OI, Weber AW. 2007. Dental health indicators of hunter-gatherer adaptation and cultural change in Siberia’s Cis-Baikal. American Journal of

Physical Anthropology 134:323-339.

Lieverse AR, Weber AW, Bazaliiskiy VI, Goriunova OI, Savel’ev NA. 2007. Osteoarthritis in the mid-Holocene Cis-Baikal: skeletal indicators of hunter-gatherer adaptation and cultural change.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132:1-16.

Lieverse AR, Weber AW, Goriunova OI. 2006. Human taphonomy at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Siberia: a new method for documenting skeletal condition. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1141-

1151.

Bazaliiskiy VI, Lieverse AR, Haverkort CM, Pezhemskii DV, Tiutrin AA, Turkin GV, Weber AW. 2006. Ranneneoliticheskii kompleks pogrebenii mogil’nika Shamanka II (po materialam

raskopok 1998-2003 g.) [The early Neolithic burial complex at Shamanka II cemetery (1998-2003 excavation season materials)]. Isvestiia Laboratorii drevnikh teknologii (Irkutusk GTU)

4:80-104.

Mooder KP, Weber AW, Bamforth FJ, Lieverse AR, Schurr TG, Bazaliiski VI, Savel’ev NA. 2005. Matrilineal affinities and prehistoric Siberian mortuary practices: a case study from Neolithic

Lake Baikal. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:619-634.

Lieverse AR. 1999. Diet and the aetiology of dental calculus. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 9:219-232.