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Preliminary report on the Upper Paleolithic fauna of Tolbor-17 (Mongolia) is out now :D

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15.09.2025 06:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last chance to submit your abstract for our session on challenges in zooarchaeology! We will consider submissions until ~August 20th :)

14.08.2025 08:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Reminder to submit an abstract for one of the nine (!) ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAAs!

14.08.2025 08:43 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Reminder to submit an abstract for one of our 8 ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAA Meeting! 1. Standardization in Zooarchaeology (Chair: Pam CRabtree -[pc4@nyu.edu]) 2. Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice (Chairs: Maddy McCartin [mjmccartin@ucdavis.edu], Erin Mooneyham, and Nikki Wu) 3. From Interactions to Management: Mutualistic Human–Animal Relationships in the Archaeological Record of the Americas (Chairs: Sarah Noe [snoe@ucsb.edu] and Daniel Damas) 4. Microfauna in Archaeological Contexts: Challenges and Methodological Considerations (Chair: Gillian E Wong [gillian.wong368@gmail.com]) 5. Beyond the Osseous: Applications of Soft-Tissue Analysis in Zooarchaeology (Chairs: Morgan Hall [mvhall@ucdavis.edu] and Arianna Garvin) 6. Invertebrates in Global Archaeological Perspectives (Chairs: Isabella Hernandez [Isabella.hernandez@ucalgary.ca] and Elizabeth Paris) 7. Marine Resource Exploitation in the Preindustrial Americas: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fisheries Baselines (Chairs: Nayeli Jimenez Cano [njimenezcano@ucsd.edu] and Mariela Declet Perez) 8. Reintegrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: New Collaborations, Questions, and Methods (Chairs: R. J. Sinensky and Jonathan Dombrosky [jdombrosky@crowcanyon.org])

Reminder to submit an abstract for a @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session at the 2026 SAA meeting in San Francisco! Abstracts can be found on ZIG's facebook page (www.facebook.com/share/g/14Gc...)

22.07.2025 10:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Poster entitled Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice. Interested in participating? Contact us (Madison McCartin, Erin Mooneyham, Nikki Wu) at mjmccartin@ucdavis.edu and submit your abstract via our google form.

Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research?

If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!

The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...

13.07.2025 12:02 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Sign the Petition Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University

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30.01.2025 13:07 — 👍 405    🔁 267    💬 14    📌 18

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📢🚨 REMINDER: The SAA's Zooarchaeology Interest Group journal club is next week (Jan 24 @ 12pm mountain time)! Gillian Wong will host and discuss a recent article she co-authored: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja.... Contact Gillian (gillian.wong368@gmail.com) if you need access to the article!

17.01.2025 18:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Better care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoples New recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal bones, pelts and other remains

🧪My first byline of the year is one very near and dear to me. I spent more than a year working on this, including two reporting trips to Boulder, and I'm so happy to see it out in the world.

02.01.2025 19:23 — 👍 66    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 1

Title and author list for introduction to special issue on integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology. "Towards a deeper integration of ZooMS and zooarchaeology at Palaeolithic sites: current challenges and future directions" Geoff M. Smith Karen Ruebens Virginie Sinet-Mathiot Frido Welker

🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺

19.11.2024 11:19 — 👍 31    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering Neanderthal aesthetic capacity - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences An aesthetic sense—a taste for the creation and/or appreciation of that which strikes one as, e.g., attractive or awesome—is often assumed to be a distinctively H. sapiens phenomenon. However, recent ...

In tomorrow’s #Palaeolunch we’ll be discussing the following paper:
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺

11.11.2024 08:02 — 👍 43    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs

Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives

@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...

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