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This is a podcast from the Archaeology Podcast Network about the relationship between animals and humans on archaeology sites - it’s called Zooarchaeology and we have a couple of experts, Alex Fitzpatrick and Simona Falanga, to guide you through it.

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So You Want to be a Zooarchaeologist? - Ep 28

Interested in becoming a zooarchaeologist? Alex and Simona discuss how to get into zooarchaeology and their personal experiences within the discipline.

Links

  • New Evidence of Early Horse Domestication

  • Albarella, U., Rizzetto, M., and Russ. H. (2017) The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology. Oxford University Press.

  • Gifford-Gonzalez, D. (2018) An Introduction to Zooarchaeology. Springer.

  • O'Conner, T. (2000) The Archaeology of Animal Bones. Texas A&M University Press.

  • Reitz, E.J. and Wing, E.S. (1999) Zooarchaeology. Cambridge University Press.

  • Sykes, N. (2014) Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues. Bloomsbury Academic.

Looking at animal bones at the National Museum of Scotland.

Looking at animal bones at the National Museum of Scotland.

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the relationship between animals and humans On archaeology sites is called Zooarchaeology. This podcast explores that relationship.

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