Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book on the archaeology of . There is also some contribution with a Foreword by Umberto Albarella. Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning Zooarchaeology Network International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ Save Sheffield Archaeology MSc Osteoarchaeology Sheffield Zooarchaeology Short Coursehttps://www.oxbowbooks.com/9798888572269/the-archaeology-of-the-horse/

🦴🐟 Skeletonising a box fish is no walk in the park!
⚠️ Warning: photos of a dead fish! 🐟

This longhorn cowfish comes with its own built-in armour: a rigid, box-shaped body covered in hard bony plates. Basically, nature made a fish that comes in a box… and then challenged us to get it out. 😅

Luckily, this one was a relatively quick job—and now we can have a closer look at what’s underneath all that armour! Save Sheffield ArchaeologyMSc OsteoarchaeologySheffield Zooarchaeology Short Course

Alive & Kicking n.67 welcomes you to this week of late summer with this intriguing recent article: RECOGNISING SHEEP AND GOAT MOLAR MORPHOTYPES AS A METHOD FOR SPECIFIC AND POPULATIONAL DISTINCTION by some excellent Serbian colleagues. It moves beyond traditional sheep/goat distinction criteria to assess morphometric variation between populations. We're looking forward to investigate it further! Here is the link:
https://revistas.uam.es/archaeofauna/article/view/24180
Ivana Živaljević Sonja Vuković Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning Zooarchaeology Network International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ Save Sheffield Archaeology

We are very happy to introduce our new volunteer, Alice! 🎉

Alice completed her MSc in Osteology at the University of Exeter a few years ago and got in touch with us because she is still very much in love with zooarchaeology. She has kindly offered to help us on a regular basis with lab and collection-related activities.

We are very lucky to have people like Alice helping us, especially now that we are adding so many new skeletons to our collection.

Thank you, Alice, for your help, we are very happy to have you on board! 🦴❤️Save Sheffield ArchaeologyMSc OsteoarchaeologySheffield Zooarchaeology Short CourseSheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning

The proceedings of the Paris conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group have just been published! Zooarchaeology Network
Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning

[ACCÈS LIBRE] - Séance 24 - "BONE, TOOLS, AND TRADITIONS" - Société Préhistorique française [ACCÈS LIBRE] - Séance 24 - "BONE, TOOLS, AND TRADITIONS" - Association loi 1901 - d'utilité publique - Exonération de TVA, art. 261-7-1 du CGI - Société Préhistorique française

While the world collapses around us, the International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ has chosen not to remain silent. 👏

Please find the ICAZ International Committee's official statement on our commitment to human rights and community values below. You can find more detail in our latest Newsletter;
https://alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icaz_website_formembers/pdf/icaz-newsletter-26-2.pdf

Alive & Kicking n.66! We would like to remind you of this book edited by Umberto Albarella and Angela Trentacoste. It emphasises the interest that our team has always had in studying the present to understand the past and it includes many fascinating case studies from around the world. Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning Save Sheffield Archaeology Zooarchaeology Network Sheffield Zooarchaeology Short Course MSc Osteoarchaeology International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ OXBOW

https://www.oxbowbooks.com/9781842179970/ethnozooarchaeology/

We are delighted to announce the publication of ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN THE ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL LAGOON OF VENICE, ITALY: THE BIOMETRIC EVIDENCE by our former MSc Osteoarchaeology and PhD student Mauro Rizzetto. Well done, Mauro! We are looking forward to seeing more of your work published. Zooarchaeology Network Save Sheffield Archaeology International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ Sheffield Zooarchaeology Short Course Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618226002491

For Alive & Kicking n.65 we would like to showcase the work of Suzie Birch, who has made a very important contribution to the application of isotopic analysis to zooarchaeological research. She has also been a stalwart International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ member. This paper focuses on the Palaeolithic, southern Europe and mobility, but it has wider applications. Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning Zooarchaeology Network Save Sheffield Archaeology

Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Migratory Behavior of Ungulates Using Isotopic Analysis of Tooth Enamel and Its Effects on Forager Mobility Zooarchaeological and paleoecological investigations have traditionally been unable to reconstruct the ethology of herd animals, which likely had a significant influence on the mobility and subsistence strategies of prehistoric humans. In this paper, we reconstruct the migratory behavior of red deer...