Books in the Northern Reference Series series

This volume, a product of the project's start-up conference, during the Canadian Archaeological Association meetings in May 2001, is both a reflection of our current state of knowledge and a research outline. The assembled papers highlight the interdisciplinary and international nature of the Baikal Archaeology Project. The eleven papers review current research, or present preliminary field or laboratory work, or do a little bit of both. The theoretical and empirical program of work for the Baikal Archaeology Project is laid out. The papers contributed by Russian collaborators provide an important introduction to Russian perspectives on this research including theoretical approaches, model building, and data analysis and interpretation. Some of these approaches inevitably differ from those developed by the rest of the team, which, of course, is not entirely homogeneous in this regard either. Such differences can only be viewed as creative stimuli in this collaborative project.