Aleutian Zooarchaeology Group

10/05/2021

The Aleutian Mercury Dynamics Project brings together kids and zooarch during Camp Qungaayux^ on Unalaska.

Dr. Nicole Misarti (CoI) works with culture camp kids at the Agnes Beach site, Unalaska. August 2021. Photo by Thomas McLenigan, Museum of the Aleutians.

08/11/2021

Research from the 2017-2018 analysis we did for the Unalaska Sea Ice Project has just been published! Check out the article link below- it is free to download for 50 days.

This project is designed to examine the prevalence of skeletal pathology in two archaeological avian bone assemblages.Archaeological avian bone assemb…

08/10/2021

Indigenous peoples who lived in the Aleutian Islands for thousands of years didn’t trash the environment—that doesn’t mean their presence should be dismissed.

07/28/2021

07/08/2021

UB Zooarchaeology has been rebranded as the Aleutian Zooarchaeology Group! Watch this page for upcoming news and blog posts about our Aleutian based faunal analyses.

06/08/2021

Preparing for a museum collections visit for the Aleutian Mercury Dynamics Project with a refresh on the smallest otariids. Northern fur seal juvenile on the lab table today.

11/11/2020

10/14/2020

Deer heads and a bighorn sheep out of the compost and into the lab - finalizing Dr. Ariel Taivalkoski's zooarchaeology composting tests at UB!