Australian Centre for Domesticates & Commensal Research in Armidale, New South Wales | Archaeological service

Australian Centre for Domesticates & Commensal Research

Locality: Armidale, New South Wales

Address: University of New England 2351 Armidale, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 Hello everyone! There are still some places available for our next short course 'Understanding Zooarchaeology I' (17th-19th January 2018). Are you interested i...n animal bones from archaeological sites? Would you like to know more about what they can tell us of our past? This is the course for you! 'Understanding Zooarchaeology I' will provide participants with an understanding of the basic methods that zooarchaeologists use to understand animal bone evidence through short lectures, case studies and hands on practical activities. The course is directed to students, professionals and enthusiasts and does not require any previous knowledge of the discipline. For more information please follow this link: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk//zooarchaeology-l/short-course See more

22.01.2022 Animal bone and archaeological science in action at UNE.

21.01.2022 Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) is 27-29 June 2018 in Palermo (Sicily, Italy). Deadline for abstracts is 31 March 2018. https://www.pzaf.org/

20.01.2022 New zooarch book on animal paleopathology:

19.01.2022 PhD project opportunity on Viking period faunal assemblages: "In collaboration with the National Museum Wales (NMW) we are developing a research project on a substantive multi-period assemblage from Anglesey, with a significant quantity of Viking/Medieval material (the latter is estimated 10-12k ID specimens, with a total assemblage of 60K). We are looking for suitable potential students to research this assemblage using a range of techniques. One funding route would be to ...apply under the AHRC South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership - in this students create their own research projects and compete for funding as part of a consortium. Please check out the funding criteria; the majority of students funded under the scheme to date have both a First Class undergraduate degree and a Distinction at Masters or substantial relevant experience. A guarantee of full funding is limited to UK students please see this link for more details http://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/. The competition for entry in September 2018 will open on 27th November 2017. If you are potential student interested in exploring Viking period zooarchaeological or biomolecular analyses please do get in touch and we can provide a little more detail about the assemblage so students can begin to develop their own research project. The NMW is a recognised partner in the SWWDTP, and students would need to identify a second supervisor across the consortium."

16.01.2022 "The horse revolutionized prehistoric living, allowing people to travel farther and faster than ever before, and to wage war in yet-unheard-of ways. But who first domesticated horses is a hotly debated question. One leading hypothesis suggests Bronze Age pastoralists called the Yamnaya were the first to saddle up, using their fleet transport to sweep out from the Eurasian steppe and spread their cultureand their genesfar and wide. But a new study of ancient DNA suggests that wasn’t the case in Asia, and that another culture, the Botai, domesticated the horse first."

12.01.2022 Our newest dingo article has finally been published! Here’s the linkl https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4564.1.6 followed by another link to our accompanying piece in today’s Conversation (with abbreviated author list).... https://theconversation.com/the-dingo-is-a-true-blue-native

08.01.2022 Great opportunity to study zooarchaeology in the field!

07.01.2022 Working on any bird projects? The 9th ICAZ Bird Working Group Meeting. ‘The archaeology of human-bird interactions. A conference in honour of Dale Serjeantson’, is still accepting abstracts until February 15, 2018! Conference will be held 8th-11th June 2018 in Sheffield, UK Abstracts for oral presentation and posters should be submitted to: [email protected]... Abstracts will be 150-200 words and must include five keywords, the author’s name/s, affiliation details, email address and whether you are submitting it as oral or poster presentation. Although the official language of the conference is English, other languages could be considered by the organizing committee for oral presentations in relation to specific needs. However, abstracts and background slides to presentations must be in English. Authors will be told whether their abstracts have been accepted by the end of March 2018. For more info, please, visit the conference webpage: http://alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/exhibits/show/9bwg 9th ICAZ BWG organizing committee: Umberto Albarella (University of Sheffield) Polydora Baker (Historic England) Evelyne Browaeys (University of Sheffield) Chiara A. Corbino (University of Sheffield) Jacqui Mulville (Cardiff University) Ged Poland (University of Sheffield) Fay Worley (Historic England)

06.01.2022 Come join us at the SAA's in Albuquerque! We have some great papers on the subject of domestication on Saturday, April 13 from 1-4pm in session #352, 22 San Juan.

05.01.2022 Our newest dingo article has finally been published! Here’s the linkl https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4564.1.6 followed by another link to our accompanying piece in today’s Conversation (with abbreviated author list).... https://theconversation.com/the-dingo-is-a-true-blue-native

02.01.2022 Society for American Archaeology's annual Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship is due December 15, 2017. Award Description: In honor of the late Dienje M. E. Kenyon, a fellowship is offered to support a female archaeologist in the early stages of graduate zooarchaeology training, Kenyon’s specialty. An award of $1,000 will be made. To qualify for the award, applicants must be enrolled an M.A. or Ph.D. degree program focusing on archaeology. Strong preference will be given to ap...plicants in the early stage of research project development and/or data collection, under the mentorship of a zooarchaeologist. Please submit your application, or encourage your students to submit to me as chair of the committee: [email protected] International and US students, and non-SAA members welcome to apply.