ACDCr seeks to better understand the human-animal relationship through prehistory with a focus on do
19/02/2020
Our newest on dingoes. Happy reading!
Hunting dogs down under? On the Aboriginal use of tame dingoes in dietary game acquisition and its relevance to Australian prehistory Dingoes are wild canids descended from primitive dogs brought to Australia by humans around approximately 5000BP. Observations of dingoes living with …
Come join us at the SAA's in Albuquerque! We have some great papers on the subject of domestication on Saturday, April 13 from 1-4pm in session #352, 22 San Juan.
26/03/2019
Great opportunity to study zooarchaeology in the field!
25/03/2019
Animal bone and archaeological science in action at UNE.
Archaeological Science in Action at UNE!!! Honour's student Julie Sebanc-Butler was given the opportunity to put our portable FTIR to the test - literally, at the Australian Museum last week. Julie used FTIR to test archaeological bone for collagen preservation as a sampling tool to select the best specimens for C14 dating. Now that's archaeological science!
08/03/2019
Our newest dingo article has finally been published! Here’s the linkl
https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4564.1.6
followed by another link to our accompanying piece in today’s Conversation (with abbreviated author list).
https://theconversation.com/the-dingo-is-a-true-blue-native-australian-species-111538?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%208%202019%20-%201253311583&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%208%202019%20-%201253311583+CID_04c0621be7288b36478e0a3d69a2abff&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=The%20dingo%20is%20a%20true-blue%20native%20Australian%20species
Taxonomic status of the Australian dingo: the case for Canis dingo Meyer, 1793 | SMITH | Zootaxa Taxonomic status of the Australian dingo: the case for Canis dingo Meyer, 1793
11/05/2018
"The horse revolutionized prehistoric living, allowing people to travel farther and faster than ever before, and to wage war in yet-unheard-of ways. But who first domesticated horses is a hotly debated question. One leading hypothesis suggests Bronze Age pastoralists called the Yamnaya were the first to saddle up, using their fleet transport to sweep out from the Eurasian steppe and spread their culture—and their genes—far and wide. But a new study of ancient DNA suggests that wasn’t the case in Asia, and that another culture, the Botai, domesticated the horse first."
These Asian hunter-gatherers may have been the first people to domesticate horses Genes suggest that famed Yamnaya herders played a lesser role
19/04/2018
An Introduction to Zooarchaeology | Diane Patrice Gifford-Gonzalez | Springer This volume is a comprehensive, critical introduction to vertebrate zooarchaeology, it explores the history of human relations with animals. ...
01/03/2018
Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) is 27-29 June 2018 in Palermo (Sicily, Italy). Deadline for abstracts is 31 March 2018. https://www.pzaf.org/
16/01/2018
Working on any bird projects? The 9th ICAZ Bird Working Group Meeting. ‘The archaeology of human-bird interactions. A conference in honour of Dale Serjeantson’, is still accepting abstracts until February 15, 2018!
Conference will be held 8th-11th June 2018 in Sheffield, UK
Abstracts for oral presentation and posters should be submitted to: [email protected]
Abstracts will be 150-200 words and must include five keywords, the author’s name/s, affiliation details, email address and whether you are submitting it as oral or poster presentation. Although the official language of the conference is English, other languages could be considered by the organizing committee for oral presentations in relation to specific needs. However, abstracts and background slides to presentations must be in English.
Authors will be told whether their abstracts have been accepted by the end of March 2018.
For more info, please, visit the conference webpage: http://alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/exhibits/show/9bwg
9th ICAZ BWG organizing committee:
Umberto Albarella (University of Sheffield)
Polydora Baker (Historic England)
Evelyne Browaeys (University of Sheffield)
Chiara A. Corbino (University of Sheffield)
Jacqui Mulville (Cardiff University)
Ged Poland (University of Sheffield)
Fay Worley (Historic England)
17/12/2017
New zooarch book on animal paleopathology:
Care or Neglect? Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication resulting in higher incidences of animal disease due to human intervention. At the same time, human care has counter-balanced pres
Society for American Archaeology's annual Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship is due December 15, 2017.
Award Description: In honor of the late Dienje M. E. Kenyon, a fellowship is offered to support a female archaeologist in the early stages of graduate zooarchaeology training, Kenyon’s specialty. An award of $1,000 will be made. To qualify for the award, applicants must be enrolled an M.A. or Ph.D. degree program focusing on archaeology. Strong preference will be given to applicants in the early stage of research project development and/or data collection, under the mentorship of a zooarchaeologist.
Please submit your application, or encourage your students to submit to me as chair of the committee: [email protected]
International and US students, and non-SAA members welcome to apply.