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Sites about the study of animal bones and associated faunal remains discovered at archaeological sites. Sites regarding individuals who specialize in zooarchaeology can be found through the Zooarchaeologists @link.

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• Caerwent Animal Bone Remains - Kevin Smith's Dissertation on the faunal remains recovered from 4th century deposits in the Romano-British town of Caerwent.
  
• Ethnozoology Index - An exhibit in Minnesota State University's EMuseum with information on Egyptian, Roman, Mexican and Wisconsin ethnozoology with links.
  
• University of Alberta Zooarchaeology Laboratory - The Zooarchaeology Reference Collection consists of over 700 animal skeletons of Alberta and arctic vertebrate species, domesticates, and a small number of mollusc specimens. Specimens list, resources for students and instructors, and volunteer programs.
  
• Seasonality Bibliography - A selected bibliography of studies related to determining seasonality from bone remains.
  
• UCLA Zooarchaeology Laboratory - Profile of this laboratory which maintains a collection of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, native and domestic, from California, Central America, and Peru.
  
• BoneCommons - Online community for zooarchaeology.
  
• Grahame Clark Laboratory for Zooarchaeology - Profile of the laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Includes staff profiles and brief descriptions of research projects.
  
• MSc in Zooarchaeology - Overview of University of York graduate program.
  
• ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group - Palaeopathology forum and downloadable bibliography [DOC format].
  
• Binghamton University Archaeological Analytical Research Facility - Specimens represent taxa from the Northeastern United States, and include examples from South America, West Africa, and the Arctic. Species list and contact information.
  
• Indiana University Zooarchaeology Laboratory - Profile of this laboratory whose purpose is to accumulate skeletal remains of indigenous animal species to facilitate identification of faunal materials from Indiana and contiguous states.
  
• Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists - Volunteer organization dedicated to improving the comparative collection at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Offers workshops, presents papers, sponsors symposia, and produces publications.
  
• Archaeofauna - Publishes yearly papers of archaeozoological nature, in the widest sense of the term not just in the strictly biological one. Includes abstracts of all ten volumes produced to date.
  
• Late Prehistoric Subsistence in Central Indiana - Report on the faunal remains from three prehistoric sites in Indiana by Rexford C. Garniewicz.
  
• The Fish Bones from Orford, Suffolk - Report prepared by Mark Beech and Charlie Stokes for the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service. Includes abstract and link to order full report.
  
• ABCml: Analysis of Bone Counts by Maximum Likelihood - Software that implements a statistical method for analysis of bone counts from archaeological or paleontological sites. Java version of the software and documentation.
  
• University of Oregon Zooarchaeology - Profile of the zooarchaeology program including staff and comparative collection information.
  
• Zooarchaeology Information and Resources - Provides links to faunal analysis resources for zooarchaeology professionals across North America. Includes books, references, and web links.
  
• Florida Museum of Natural History - Zooarchaeology Comparative Collection - Skeletons of vertebrates and exoskeletons of mollusks and crustaceans from the southeastern United States, the West Indies, the circum-Caribbean area, and northwestern South America. Collection databases and contact information.
  
• Computerised Bone Templates - Presents an approach to the computerized recording of graphical zooarchaeological data using digital image templates and graphic software packages.
  
• Contribution of Archaeozoology to Landscape Archaeology - Paper whose principal argument is that information provided by animal bones about ancient landscapes is indirect but critical (RTF File).
  
• California State University Chico Zooarchaeology Lab - Skeletons of mammals, birds, and fish typical of Northern California and the Western Great Basin, where most of Chico State's archaeological research takes place. Detailed facility profile.
  
• University of Maine Zooarchaeology Laboratory - The zooarchaeology laboratory includes an extensive modern comparative skeletal collection of Northeastern and Southwestern fauna. Current research projects and contact information.
  
• Bibliography of Foodways and Zooarchaeology on Historical Sites - Compiled by William Hampton Adams.
  
• International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ is an international organization for those interested in studying the rich history of human/animal interactions through the analysis of archaeological animal bones.
  
• ArchNet: Faunal Resources - Links related to identification of animal remains.
  
• Marine Turtle Exploitation in Bronze Age Oman - Paper by Christine Mosseri-Marlio, published in the Marine Turtle Newsletter.
  
• Wyoming State Archaeologist's Office Zooarchaeology Lab - The laboratory is primarily designed to provide comparative osteological specimens to zooarchaeologists working in Wyoming and the surrounding region. Species lists and related links.
  
• Canadian Zooarchaeology - A forum for topics of interest to zooarchaeologists working in Canada, and abroad. Regular and special feature articles are complemented by a variety of listings and exchanges.
  
• Research into the Aurochs - Research to retrace the history, morphology and ecology of the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius).
  
• The Palaeopathology of Horse Husbandry - Presentation of this research project being carried out at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
  
• International Journal of Osteoarchaeology - Provides a forum for the publication of papers dealing with all aspects of the study of human and animal bones from archaeological contexts. Including coverage in the following key areas: palaeopathology, physical anthropology, epidemiology, chemical anal
  
• Colorado State University Zooarchaeology - Collection of pages related to L.C. Todd's zooarchaeology class. Includes information on coding animal bones and bison osteology.
  
• Archaeozoology in New Zealand - Contains detailed information on several current research projects in New Zealand.
  
• Archeozoo - Collaborative content site organized around sections that can contain numerous articles and links.
  
• North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation - NABO is an interdisciplinary, international, non-governmental regional research cooperative that works to serve scholars interested in the interactions of humans and changing landscapes across the North Atlantic region.
  
• Did Carolina Dogs Arrive With Ancient Americans? - From National Geographic, Carolina Dog live much like the dogs of ancient times, suggesting to researchers that they may be America's most primitive dogs with roots that could stretch back across the ancient Asia-America land bridge.
  
• English Heritage Professional Zooarchaeology Group - Aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between those within universities and those working within units or as freelancers.
  
• Dig Discovery is Oldest 'Pet Cat' - From BBC, oldest known evidence of people keeping cats as pets may have been discovered by archaeologists.
  
• Bioarchaeological References - A bibliography of papers on identifying and interpreting biological remains from archaeological sites in terms of human usage, biogeography, and paleoecology. Compiled by the Laboratory for Environmental Biology, a research division of the Centennial Muse
  
• Domestication Revisited: Its Implications for Faunal Analysis - Abstract of a Journal of Field Archaeology paper by Howard Hecker.
  
• Zooarchaeology In Sarasota County - Popular press article which serves as an introduction to zooarchaeology.
  
• Ancient Biomolecules Centre - University of Oxford research center in the Departments of Zoology and Biological Anthropology. Projects include research on Phylogenetics, Pathogens, and Beringian permafrost.
  
• Cetacean Zooarchaeology Research Network - Informal network of individuals whose research interests include cetacean remains in archaeological contexts.
  
  

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