Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Archaeology: Topics: Zooarchaeology
See also: - Software that implements a statistical method for analysis of bone counts from archaeological or paleontological sites. Java version of the software and documentation. - Volunteer organization dedicated to improving the comparative collection at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Offers workshops, presents papers, sponsors symposia, and produces publications. - University of Oxford research center in the Departments of Zoology and Biological Anthropology. Projects include research on Phylogenetics, Pathogens, and Beringian permafrost. - Links related to identification of animal remains. - Publishes yearly papers of archaeozoological nature, in the widest sense of the term not just in the strictly biological one. Includes abstracts of all ten volumes produced to date. - Contains detailed information on several current research projects in New Zealand. - Collaborative content site organized around sections that can contain numerous articles and links. - Compiled by William Hampton Adams. - Specimens represent taxa from the Northeastern United States, and include examples from South America, West Africa, and the Arctic. Species list and contact information. - Online community for zooarchaeology. - Skeletons of mammals, birds, and fish typical of Northern California and the Western Great Basin, where most of Chico State's archaeological research takes place. Detailed facility profile. - A forum for topics of interest to zooarchaeologists working in Canada, and abroad. Regular and special feature articles are complemented by a variety of listings and exchanges. - Collection of pages related to L.C. Todd's zooarchaeology class. Includes information on coding animal bones and bison osteology. - Paper whose principal argument is that information provided by animal bones about ancient landscapes is indirect but critical (RTF File). - Aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between those within universities and those working within units or as freelancers. - Skeletons of vertebrates and exoskeletons of mollusks and crustaceans from the southeastern United States, the West Indies, the circum-Caribbean area, and northwestern South America. Collection databases and contact information. - Profile of the laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Includes staff profiles and brief descriptions of research projects. - Palaeopathology forum and downloadable bibliography [DOC format]. - Profile of this laboratory whose purpose is to accumulate skeletal remains of indigenous animal species to facilitate identification of faunal materials from Indiana and contiguous states. - ICAZ is an international organization for those interested in studying the rich history of human/animal interactions through the analysis of archaeological animal bones. - Provides a forum for the publication of papers dealing with all aspects of the study of human and animal bones from archaeological contexts. Including coverage in the following key areas: palaeopathology, physical anthropology, epidemiology, chemical analysis, exploitation of animal resources, taphonomy. - Report on the faunal remains from three prehistoric sites in Indiana by Rexford C. Garniewicz. - Paper by Christine Mosseri-Marlio, published in the Marine Turtle Newsletter. - NABO is an interdisciplinary, international, non-governmental regional research cooperative that works to serve scholars interested in the interactions of humans and changing landscapes across the North Atlantic region. - Research to retrace the history, morphology and ecology of the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius). - Report prepared by Mark Beech and Charlie Stokes for the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. Includes abstract and link to order full report. - Presentation of this research project being carried out at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. - Profile of this laboratory which maintains a collection of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, native and domestic, from California, Central America, and Peru. - Profile of the zooarchaeology program including staff and comparative collection information. - Popular press article which serves as an introduction to zooarchaeology. - From BBC, oldest known evidence of people keeping cats as pets may have been discovered by archaeologists. (April 08, 2004) - From National Geographic, Carolina Dog live much like the dogs of ancient times, suggesting to researchers that they may be America's most primitive dogs with roots that could stretch back across the ancient Asia-America land bridge. (March 11, 2003)
