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Chew, Zi-Qi, Hsieh, Ellen & Lin, Chien-Hsiang (2025) Broad-spectrum fishing and small #fish use in Late #Neolithic #Taiwan: New insights from #otolith -based analysis.
🔓via J. Archaeological Science
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Broad-spectrum fishing and small fish use in Late Neolithic Taiwan: New insights from otolith-based analysis
Small-bodied fish species (≤15 cm in total length) are ecologically and culturally important in modern coastal ecosystems and nearshore fisheries yet …
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January 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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January 6, 2026 at 9:25 PM
One (understandably!) under appreciated component of foodways research in #archaeology: eggs! Matt has recovered a range of eggshells (birds, turtles(?!), etc) in the remains of food trash associated with the enslaved community of the North End Plantation on Ossabaw Island, Georgia #history #ecology
January 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Macaws did not merely pass through Chaco Canyon. New analysis shows they lived for decades inside great houses, carefully housed in plastered rooms for ceremonial life. Feathers, architecture, and care converged. #Archaeology #ChacoCanyon #Zooarchaeology #Pueblo www.anthropology.net/p/feathers-i...
Feathers in the Stone: How Chaco Canyon’s Macaws Lived, Traveled, and Were Revered
Bird remains from Chaco Canyon suggest that macaws & parrots were not curiosities or trade trophies, but carefully housed ceremonial beings whose presence reshaped great houses and rituals
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December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
5,000-year-old dog skeleton and dagger buried in a Swedish bog reveal Stone Age ritual practices among fishing communities...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/5000...

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #stoneage #zooarchaeology
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
📖 Nueva publicación de Marcos García García "Animalising the Islamic Green Revolution: zooarchaeology and socio-ecological change in the Islamic Far West", en Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 69.

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December 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Ancient DNA shows Levantine hartebeest belonged to the North African Bubal lineage. Study finds human pressure, not climate, drove their extinction and suggests reintroduction in the Levant is still viable today. #AncientDNA #Zooarchaeology #Levant #Conservation
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December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hey Zooarch folks. May you please email me a copy of Introduction to Zooarchaeology by Gifford-Gonzalez 2018? I can't access the Google Drive in which I saved mine and I'm ashamed to ask for a copy from the SAASociety WhatsApp group because it's holiday season 😂 Thanks #zooarchaeology #archaezoology
December 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Excavation of animal remains — possibly a young calf 🐮 — at Rincullia.

Such discoveries help us understand the role of livestock in early settlement life.

#archaeology #archaeologicalexcavations #foynestolimerickroadproject #foynestolimerick #excavation #zooarchaeology #irisharchaeology
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM