Pzaf 2018 – Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum
Just passing on this information about the Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) which will take place between the 27th and 29th ...
Tag: Zooarchaeology
Posts about zooarchaeology or the study of animal remains in Southeast Asian archaeological contexts.
Can Rat Bones Solve an Island Mystery?
via Sapiens, 30 Nov 2017: Homo floresiensis thrived on the island of Flores for thousands of years—and then vanished. One ...
New Paper: Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia
We report on tetrapod (Reptilia, Amphibia, Mammalia, Aves) vertebrates recovered during excavations at Tron Bon Lei rockshelter on the south ...
Largest-ever rat fossils discovered in East Timor
Very pleased to see my former colleagues at the ANU featured in this news - the discovery of the largest ...
The giant stork that lived beside the little hobbit
Science media have been picking up this story the last couple of days of the description of a giant stork ...
Earl of Cranbrook delivers lecture on Borneo zooarchaeology at UBD
Zoologist and environmental biologist the Earl of Cranbrook recently delivered a lecture to students at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Lord Cranbrook ...
Fossil finds reveal range of pleistocene wildlife
Over 500 fossils have been found at the Ma Tuyen Cave in Lao Cai province of Vietnam, representing at least ...
Chickens from Polynesia? Not so fast…
Remember last year's study about the Gallus gallus and how they proved the Polynesians crossed over into the Americas? A ...
Sharing Our Archaeological Heritage – Day 2
The second and last of the paper presentations went by today with an near-marathon run of five sessions. By the ...
Chickens prove Polynesians crossed Pacific
Why did the Chicken cross the pacific? Because the Polynesians brought them there, it seems. A 600-year-old chicken bone from ...
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