Sheffield Archaeology Under Threat
University of Sheffield’s archaeology team argue vital work will be lost if threatened closure goes ahead University of Sheffield Archaeology department threat ‘blow to UK’
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University of Sheffield’s archaeology team argue vital work will be lost if threatened closure goes ahead University of Sheffield Archaeology department threat ‘blow to UK’
Publisher Springer has temporarily made hundreds of textbooks available to download for free during the coronavirus pandemic. For archaeologists, there’s Diane Gifford-Gonzalez’s ~600 page zooarchaeology book. A sample of other…
Several archaeology books from the backlist at the Cotsen Institute at UCLA are available for free download: An Archaeologist’s Guide to Chert and Flint – Luedtke 1992 The South American Camelids: An…
Pet cats, hunting dogs, and underwater mammoths: the journal Antiquity has assembled a group of recent zooarchaeology articles and made them freely available on their Online Collections page.
New book review of Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community by Martha Z. Zierden and Elizabeth J. Reitz published in the Anthropology Book Forum of the American…
There are no confirmed historic records of fox squirrel from New Jersey, although it is present in surrounding states. One subspecies, the Delmarva fox squirrel, was recently removed from the…
Comprehensive review article on use of meat by early hominins from The American Scientist.
The Worked Bone Research Group, part of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) has just published the proceedings from the 10th Meeting of the WBRG, held in Belgrade in 2014.…
Well, this could turn out badly. Hopefully the zooarchaeologist is using hyperbole to encourage Fish and Wildlife to figure out their own rules. If a “huge” load of scientifically valuable…
Just published and open access is a new article that demonstrates the value and potential of 3D scanning and printing for osteological identification of passenger pigeons and other extinct or…