Roadside #archaeology - broken cat ceramic vessel.

If anyone wants to join in on my book talk for Crow Canyon at 6pm NY time today, the link is here. This is the archaeology of the NYC water system crowcanyon-org.zoom.us/j/8853257343...

Giving a zoom lecture for Crow Canyon Archaeological Center later this week #archaeology crowcanyon.org/programs/tak...

Here's the official #archInk2025 prompt list - 31 days of archaeological (illustration) prompts for October. From pigment and bronze to provenance and afterlife, each prompt open to be explored through drawing or other techniques and mediums. Ready to join in? #archInk

Join me at McMaster! We are hiring an archaeologist scientist with preference (but not limited to) PEB and/or zooarchaeology. Geography open, although preference for North America, especially Eastern North America/Great Lakes region. Applications due November 26th! (Pls share widely.)

How many dead things (animal bones) can a professor bring to the first day of intro archaeology before it is too much?

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Coupon code is good until August 31 #archaeology

The Archaeology of American Protests, coauthored with Dania Talley, is now available for preorder at $45 hardcover with the discount code 31AU825 at the publisher’s website upf.com/book.asp?id=...

Was really nice to speak to people who have done so much for representation in archaeology. Out soon! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... 20% discount code 006120

Wow, it's 11:30 already ... this question is making me hungry. Bring on 12! From Reddit: What's the best packed lunch for a day in the field? #AskAnArchaeologist

This is a long-shot, but do any of my anthro colleagues have longitudinal child growth data to share? I'm looking to give my students data on individual, anonymous kids for them to analyze.

Omar Alayli is a space architect with a terrific podcast. Today, his episode featuring me ☺️ came out. Check it out if you want to know more about space archaeology and space heritage (my video improves after the beginning, please stick with it!) youtu.be/plu8qC7eQ1A?...

Very sad news: Brian Fagan has died. After archaeology at Cambridge he moved to the US, professor of anthropology UC Santa Barbara & writer of all things archaeological, shaming the rest of us by his output. I have a fond memory of interviewing him for British Archaeology, at our new overgrown home

We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Brian Fagan and would like to share our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. Brian was extremely influential in the field of archaeology and his loss will be felt by many archaeologists around the world.

Come and work in #Environmental #Archaeology in #Orkney at the new AEONS facility... you know you want to!! #ThinkUHI #STEM ##Zooarchaeology myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share! We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab. £53-64k in a great department. 🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Ursus arctos crania #zooarchaeology

The first sacral vertebra of three bears, each presenting slightly differently. 🐻 🐻 🐻 #zooarchaeology

Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Strange pathology on a domestic pig tibia from an archaeological site #zooarchaeology

Mandible of a domestic breed of pig (pot belly). Humans can significantly alter the biology of other species. #zooarchaeology

The mandible of a wild pig followed by that of a domestic breed #zooarchaeology

#zooarchaeology session for January 2026 Society for Historical Archaeology conference in Detroit seeks additional contributors. Title: Animal Stories: Multispecies Narratives in Zooarchaeology Title and abstract of 150 words due to organizers by June 23. Abstract below.

Vienna nights

A brown bear with significant arthritis in its right wrist. Left forearm had a healed fracture so the bear likely over used his right arm to compensate.

Wise words from Vienna.

Pick a direction….

A quick sketch of an articulated 2 year old bear with red indicating likely cause of death, a rib fracture and infection of the bone. #zooarchaeology

The Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory group @chatarchaeology.bsky.social is organizing a conference to take place in Bilbao this November with the theme on the gears of capitalism (urban dynamics, labour, industry, trade, tradition, & modernity). botxochat.chat-arch.org

Vienna was calling me to visit the grave of Falco.

One comically small cloud floating over the Vienna skyline today #FulbrightAustria

Today’s “strange bones from the Bronze Age” is a distal pig femur with a very symmetrical hole drilled into it but not all the way through the spongy bone. Occurs on only 1 of 5 distal femurs from this site and have not seen it on pigs from other sites in region. #zooarchaeology

Pathological pig feet. To the right and left of the comparative specimen are Bronze Age metatarsal 5 with pathological growth suggesting that the feet were bound as the pigs grew. #zooarchaeology

#zooarchaeology friends, does this pit on the neck of the scapula look like something you have seen before and have an interpretation of? These are Bronze Age domestic pig and out of 200+ scapulae these 2 are the only ones with these pits. They are from different contexts in the same Austrian site.

Today in Vienna I witnessed a police officer on a bicycle pull over a sports car simply by pointing to the driver and the right side curb. The officer then parked his bike in front of the car, to block it from moving forward. My first thought was this would never work in New York.

Reposting this since I still am looking for inspiration on how to treat small sample sizes in #Zooarchaeology. One might say that publishing anything less than a 100-200 bones is not worth it. However, with precarious funding and contracts, I think it is well worth it so data does not disappear.

BRONZE AGE FORUM 2025 The deadline for abstract submissions to this year's Bronze Age Forum at @ucddublin.bsky.social and hosted by @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social is Friday 27th June 2025. Submit your abstract today! #BronzeAge #ANSOC #zooarchaeology

Similar pathologies on the ulna of 2 very different animals from 2 very different time periods and with very different ages. A black bear of 12+ years old and a domestic pig of less than 3.5 years old. Both captive/domestic. #zooarchaeology

Juvenile lower 3rd molar of a Bronze Age domestic pig looks like a mountain landscape. #zooarchaeology

I’m giving a book talk at UC Dublin on Thursday (April 20) that covers my research on the NYC water system. I’ll also be working on the new Fulbright research project thanks to meetings with a curator at the National Museum & zooarchaeologists at the university.

The Archaeology of American Protests is already taking preorders on Amazon www.amazon.com/Archaeology-...

Interesting. Link for online attendance in 🧵...

"Taking Our Water for the City: The Archaeology of New York City Watershed Communities." Dr April Beisaw, Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College UCD School of Archaeology & UCD Archaeology Society Seminars 2024-25. Thur 17th April at 4pm in Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe, Belfield

I have become the master of these pig feet! Also, when I close my eyes I see pig bones. 😵‍💫

Anthropologie at the @nhmwien.bsky.social

University of Klagenfurt, Austria presents online & in person a Fulbright Guest lecture: American History and the Secret Life of Medicinal Plants: Archives, Ethnobotany, and Environmental Justice with Dr. Claudia J. Ford, Wed, Apr 2, 2025. 11:45-13:15 campus.aau.at/va/ctl/detai...

Mandible of a European brown bear.

Update: life history of this bear is amazing. It died in a Vienna zoo in 1872 & is actually Ursus americanus - American black bear. The unusually LARGE body size, pathologies, & European source was misleading but distal humerus matches well with black bear published in Gilbert’s Mammalian Osteology