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Madison McCartin @upaleolithic.bsky.social · 25d

Preliminary report on the Upper Paleolithic fauna of Tolbor-17 (Mongolia) is out now :D

mongoliajol.info/index.php/SA...

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Madison McCartin @upaleolithic.bsky.social · Aug 14

Last chance to submit your abstract for our session on challenges in zooarchaeology! We will consider submissions until ~August 20th :)

Madison McCartin @upaleolithic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research?

If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!

The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...

Poster entitled Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice. Interested in participating? Contact us (Madison McCartin, Erin Mooneyham, Nikki Wu) at mjmccartin@ucdavis.edu and submit your abstract via our google form.

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Zooarchaeology Interest Group (SAA) @zig-saa.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reminder to submit an abstract for one of the nine (!) ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAAs!

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Madison McCartin @upaleolithic.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...)

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])

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Madison McCartin @upaleolithic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research?

If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!

The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jan 30

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University

www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

Sign the Petition

Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

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Jonathan Dombrosky @thanatocoenose.bsky.social · Jan 17

📢🚨 REMINDER: The SAA's Zooarchaeology Interest Group journal club is next week (Jan 24 @ 12pm mountain time)! Gillian Wong will host and discuss a recent article she co-authored: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja.... Contact Gillian ([email protected]) if you need access to the article!

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · Jan 2

🧪My first byline of the year is one very near and dear to me. I spent more than a year working on this, including two reporting trips to Boulder, and I'm so happy to see it out in the world.

Better care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoples

New recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal bones, pelts and other remains

www.science.org

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Dr Geoff M Smith @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social · Nov 19

🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺

Title and author list for introduction to special issue on integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology.

"Towards a deeper integration of ZooMS and zooarchaeology at Palaeolithic sites: current challenges and future directions"
Geoff M. Smith
Karen Ruebens
Virginie Sinet-Mathiot
Frido Welker

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Nov 11

In tomorrow’s #Palaeolunch we’ll be discussing the following paper:
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺

Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering Neanderthal aesthetic capacity - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

An aesthetic sense—a taste for the creation and/or appreciation of that which strikes one as, e.g., attractive or awesome—is often assumed to be a distinctively H. sapiens phenomenon. However, recent ...

link.springer.com

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Nov 12

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs

Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives

@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...

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