From July 2001
Project Leader(s): P. Dolukhanov
Staff: Prof. Shukurov (Newcastle); Dr Zaitseva (St. Petersburg); Prof. Arslanov (St. Petersburg); Mr. Mazurkevich (St. Petersburg); Dr. D. Gronenborn (Germany).
Sponsors: INTAS
Partners: School of Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. Newcastle; Inst. Hist. Mat. Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg); University of St. Petersburg (Russia); The Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia); Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Germany)
Identification of major environmental changes that occurred in the lake district of North-Western Russia over the last 8 thousand years and their effect on early human settlement and subsistence with an emphasis on early forms of farming. International project based on multidisciplinary study of archaeological and environmental sites.