Attending the SAAs next week? If so, come check out our session on "Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice" on Friday @8:45 :)

Hi all, the 2026 SAA meeting is fast approaching! Please check out the eight (!) ZIG-sponsored sessions that will take place throughout the week, as well as the ZIG business meeting on Friday at 6:30pm - all are welcome to join! Stefanie, Erin, and I hope to see many of you there :)

Preliminary report on the Upper Paleolithic fauna of Tolbor-17 (Mongolia) is out now :D mongoliajol.info/index.php/SA...

Last chance to submit your abstract for our session on challenges in zooarchaeology! We will consider submissions until ~August 20th :)

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Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research? If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology! The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...

Reminder to submit an abstract for one of the nine (!) ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAAs!

Reminder to submit an abstract for a @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session at the 2026 SAA meeting in San Francisco! Abstracts can be found on ZIG's facebook page (www.facebook.com/share/g/14Gc...)

Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research? If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology! The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...

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📢🚨 REMINDER: The SAA's Zooarchaeology Interest Group journal club is next week (Jan 24 @ 12pm mountain time)! Gillian Wong will host and discuss a recent article she co-authored: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja.... Contact Gillian (gillian.wong368@gmail.com) if you need access to the article!

🧪My first byline of the year is one very near and dear to me. I spent more than a year working on this, including two reporting trips to Boulder, and I'm so happy to see it out in the world.

Better care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoples

New recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal bones, pelts and other remains

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🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺

In tomorrow’s #Palaeolunch we’ll be discussing the following paper: Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺

Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering Neanderthal aesthetic capacity - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

An aesthetic sense—a taste for the creation and/or appreciation of that which strikes one as, e.g., attractive or awesome—is often assumed to be a distinctively H. sapiens phenomenon. However, recent ...

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This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...