Please join us for this month's ZIG journal club on Wednesday, April 22nd at 9am PST (12pm EST). Magen Hodapp will discuss A Whale of a Well: Sorting Methods and Preliminary Findings of 600,000 Faunal Remains.
Zoom link: ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9196971042...
Meeting ID: 919 6971 0421
Passcode: 549923
Sharing this seasonal museum technician job opportunity with the Waco Mammoth National Monument Museum, applications due April 10th! They are looking for someone with zooarch experience to assist with cataloging and management of an NPS owned faunal collection!
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Please join us for this month's ZIG journal club TOMORROW Tuesday, March 24th @9am PST (12pm EST)!
Pam Crabtree will discuss The Fauna from Corlears Hook Park (New York City). We hope to see many of you there!
Zoom link: ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9806866235...
Meeting ID: 980 6866 2357
Passcode: 495182
Please join us for this month's journal club this Fri, February 13th @10am PST (1pm EST)!
Stefanie Perez (co-chair!) will discuss Comparative Specimen Preparation: What Works and What Doesn’t
Hope to see many of you there!
ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9799873453...
Meeting ID: 979 9873 4534
Passcode: 794502
The talk started at 10am PST, and is happening now. Feel free to join now!
10am* sorry
Pam Crabtree will host our journal club TODAY at 10PST. Pam
will talk about Medieval urban zooarchaeology in Antwerp.
You can join with the following link:
ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9291032570...
Meeting ID: 929 1032 5706
Passcode: 162950
Please join us for our next journal club on Tuesday, December 9th @1pm CST (11am PST / 2pm EST). Gillian Wong will present on teaching ethics in zooarchaeology.
Link: ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9366072766...
Meeting ID: 936 6072 7661
Passcode: 163039
P.S. we are always looking for journal club hosts, especially for this spring. Please contact us if you’d be interested in talking about your research, hosting a discussion of recent article you find interesting, or facilitating a group discussion about a specific topic/issue in Zooarch!
Zoom Meeting Link ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9186464637... Meeting ID: 918 6464 6371 Passcode: 957146
Please join us for our first ZIG journal club of the season! Mariana Zechini will discuss the discovery of a half complete cat skeleton from the mansion basement of George Washington's Mount Vernon. The talk will take place Thursday, November 13th @11/8am EST/PST. Looking forward to seeing you all!
Last chance to submit your abstract for our session on challenges in zooarchaeology! We will consider submissions until ~August 20th :)
Reminder to submit an abstract for one of the nine (!) ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAAs!
📢🚨 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: We are looking for a few more contributions to a session at the upcoming #SAA2026 in San Francisco 🧪🏺! The session is all about combining plant and animal data in archaeology. DM me if you'd like some more info or are interested! Session abstract in the comments 👇.
![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])](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g567675zyqgqdrlnz54clcp4/bafkreic4zxck3u5fksw5h6hjfdreybowwahesv5yymvkkyueoiz5waplx4)
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...)
ZIG’s Virtual Journal Club is going on hiatus for the summer-we will resume in September. We are always looking for participants to share their research, discuss a recently published article, host informal discussions, and more. Please contact us if you’d be interested in hosting!
Hi all! We are accepting submissions for sponsored sessions for the 2026 SAAs in San Francisco. ZIG sponsorship helps to get the word out about your session to other zooarchaeologists! If you’d like your zooarch-adjacent session (symposium, poster, etc.) sponsored by ZIG, please contact us!
Please join us for our Journal Club discussion tomorrow, May 9th at 11:00am PST with Dr. Teresa Steele, who will recap the various zooarch and zooarch-adjacent topics presented at the SAAs last month. We look forward to seeing you all there!
ucdavis.zoom.us/j/91586842988 Meeting ID: 915 8684 2988
Come see us at the #SAA2025 Interest Group fair today from 4-6pm!!!
Check out the below opportunity for advanced undergrads and grads interested in #Zooarchaeology! 👇👇👇
Awesome opportunity for advanced undergrads or recent grads below! 👇👇👇
Wow! Right under the wire! Thanks so much.
Hi, @adammarkham.bsky.social! Any chance you could add us to the Zooarchaeology Starter Pack? Thanks for any help you can give.