The Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum will take place at the University of Lisbon, from June 16 to 19, 2026!
Check out the link below to find out more and come and share what's new in zooarchaeology in Lisbon!
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ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group have planned a series of webinars! Please join us on 20th April where Prof. Dr. Achim Gruber will present on Breeding-Associated Health Issues in Dogs and Cats. Click to register! #ICAZ #zooarch
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This Monday's 'Meet Your ICAZ Member' is the Working Group Liaison Erika Gál!
To be features, please email answers to the questions provided to icaz.social.media@gmail.com, along with a photo of yourself or your work.
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Check out a recent publication in Hungarian Archaeology from two of our ICAZ members on lynx remains and their interpretation - follow the LYNX below
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Something smells fishy! Check out the recently published proceedings of the ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group meeting held in Vienna in 2022 e-book.fwf.ac.at/detail/o:2089
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This Monday's 'Meet Your ICAZ Member' is International Committee Member Christian Gates St-Pierre!
To be features, please email answer to the questions provided to icaz.social.media@gmail.com, along with a photo of yourself or your works.
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This year, the 6th Meeting of the Neotropical Zooarchaeology Group will take place in Bogotá at the Universidad Externado from August 11 to 13, 2026. To find out more, including submission deadlines, please follow www.uexternado.edu.co/estudios-del...
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Want to know what we've been up to? Check out our latest newsletter for updates! #ICAZ #zooarch
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Please find the ICAZ International Committee's official statement on the current humanitarian situation in Gaza below. You can find more detail in our latest Newsletter alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icaz_we... #ICAZ #zooarch
This Monday's 'Meet Your ICAZ Member' is our other Social Media Manager - Samantha!
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On behalf of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group we would like to share the March Bone Tool of the Month - a cassowary bone dagger from New Guinea. See the link to find out more! #ICAZ #zooarch #workedbone
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Welcome to 'Meet Your ICAZ Members', where we will be regularly showcasing our fantastic ICAZ team.
To be featured, please email answers to the questions provided to icaz.social.media@gmail.com along with a photo of yourself or your work.
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Welcome to 2026! ICAZ social media is launching our new Facebook and Instagram pages, along with continuing our Bluesky account. Follow us for international zooarchaology news, 'meet your fellow ICAZ members', interactive content, conference information, and much more! #icaz #zooarch
📣 New Open Access Paper! Led by Dr Robin Bendrey & published in EMPH it explores how #OneHealth approaches can aid our understanding of infectious disease dynamics associated with emergent animal farming in both the past and the present 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf029 #EdinArch #zooarch
#Zooarch people this may be of interest.
Exciting new research sheds light on ancient ritual practices in Roman Britain! Excavations in Ewell, Surrey revealed one of the largest dog assemblages ever found in Romano-British contexts! Check out the link below!!🐕
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#Archaeology #RomanBritain #AncientRituals #Zooarch
Marine shells from common winkle & European flat oyster (native to Ireland coastal waters) from a Later Medieval Irish archaeology site, I worked on recently.
We can tell a lot about the site and fishing/coastal foraging from recording info from marine shells with edible shellfish. 1/2 🏺 #zooarch
Photograph of a man in a red caving helmet, light blue jacket and grey trousers inspecting a bone assemblage in the middle of a cave passage.
We’re delighted to be hosting Dr Meir Orbach (AKA @meirzooarch.bsky.social) on a Rothschild Fellowship this year. Meir is working with Prof Hannah O’Regan on lateglacial faunas and extinction. #archaeology #caves #zooarch 🧪🏺
Day 10:
#CastlepookCaveProject2025
Lots of collabs &visitors to site past few days incl today with Cavan County Museum Education & Research Officer Catherine Cahill & early career commercial archaeologist Andrew Downey. Many well preserved bones found. 2 days left, final push!
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Whale remains manufactured into tools 20k years ago, providing a glimpse of whale exploitation in past coastal populations! 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #ZooArch #bones 💀🦴 #HumanEvolution
Last week we had a brilliant seminar & workshop by Prof Jacqui Mulville (Cardiff) ‘Craftwork: Heritage, craft & communities' and 'Guerilla Archaeology - Impact through events' @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EdinArch #Edinburgh #heritage #crafting #archaeology #outreach #zooarch #antler #medievalsky
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Weak jaw muscles or painful lesions in the mouth can cause this. Sharp borders can cause injury to the cheek &make feeding difficult leading to imperfect grinding of food. Ultimately leads to general loss of condition of the animal. Happens in modern cattle today as well.
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🐈🐈⬛🦴🐁🐀 Nice to see the mice getting thier own back!
Rodent grawing on a cat humerus ❤️🦴
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So sad the archaeological ones don't retain the blue! 🦴🐟🩵
These are vertebrae of the garfish, Belone belone. It's a tasty fish 😋 I drew one 🎨🖌
#zooarch #archaeology #fish
Long shot here on bsky, but can anyone recommend any short courses that does any hands-on/practical #zooarch / #geoarch / #enviroarch training? Any reading recommendations would also be appreciated!
#zooarchaeology #enviroarch #environmental #archaeology #geoarchaeology
📖New Book❗"Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities: The Lower Sirwan/Upper Diyala River Valley from Prehistory to the Iron Age" feat. our Robin Bendrey & Synnøve Heimvik. FREE download from Sidestone Press: https://doi.org/10.59641/oo367ra #book #zooarch #EdinArch @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
3rd is Robin Bendrey @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🐴 "Interpreting anthropogenic & non-anthropogenic disarticulation sequences in archaeological #horse skeletons: Butchery, gnawing, & other taphonomic markers" 🐎 some fascinating case studies - careful disartic & (re-)display #zooarch
NOW - our One Health Archaeology research group is hosting a workshop on taphonomy 🦴 ☠️ @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #OneHealth #archaeology #taphonomy #forensics #osteology #EdinArch #cannibalism #zooarch #archsci
Please join us in Reading for the ICAZ Stable Isotopes Working Group meetup in June!
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