The Zooarchaeology of ArchaeoAnimals - Ep 65

In this final episode of ArchaeoAnimals, Alex and Simona look back to over five years of podcasting about the archaeology of animal remains. From the very beginnings, to some of the running themes, recurring characters and inside jokes, this episode is an introspective journey into ArchaeoAnimals. Tune in for some of our favourite ArchaeoAnimals moments, we hope you’ll enjoy them as much as we did.

Transcripts

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• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• Aerts, S. (2022) The Secret Life of Beetles. Wessex Archaeology.

  Daley, J. (2016) A Brief History of Bog Butter. Smithsonian Magazine.

  Davis, J. (2020) Giant Dormice the Size of Cats used to Live on Sicily. Natural History Museum.

  Fitzpatrick, A. (2021) Hey, is that a Great Auk in My Assassin’s Creed Game?! Reviving an Extinct Species in the Digital World. Animal Archaeology.

  Hayward, L. (2023) A Guide to Pliny the Elder’s Natural History. The Collector.

  Holmgren, R. (2004) ‘Money on the Hoof’ The Astragalus Bone - Religion, Gaming, and Primitive Money. Man and Animal in Antiquity.

  Killgrove, K. (2019) Vat of Ancient Fish Sauce may Confirm Date that Pompeii was Destroyed. Forbes.

  Lyons, K. (2018) Knickers the Cow: Why Australia’s Giant Steer is so Fascinating. The Guardian.

  Mayor, A. (2014) Animals in Warfare. In GL Campbell (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Oxford University Press, 282-293.

  Nielsen, H.E.F. and Leane, E. (2017) Cows in Antarctica? How One Expedition Milked Them for All their Worth. The Conversation.

  Renfrew, C. (1985) The Archaeology of Cult: The Sanctuary at Phylakopi. British School of Archaeology at Athens.

  Zeder, M. A. (2012). Pathways to animal domestication. Biodiversity in agriculture: domestication, evolution, and sustainability, 10, 227-259.

Contact

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Cute Animals Galore! - Ep 64

From quokkas to otters, we have selected some of the most endearing animals on the planet to bring you the ‘Cutest Case Studies of All Time’. Tune in to learn more about the anatomy and zooarchaeologies of the cutest of creatures.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• The Duckbilled Playtpus (1799) - The Museum of Hoaxes

• Basumatary, S. K. et al. (2021). Red Panda feces from Eastern Himalaya as a modern analogue for palaeodietary and palaeoecological analyses. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 18312.

• Borella, F., & Cruz, I. (2012). Taphonomic evaluation of penguin (Spheniscidae) remains at a shell-midden on the northern coast of Patagonia (San Matías Gulf, Río Negro, Argentina). Quaternary International, 278, 45-50.

• Clayton, J. L. (1966). The growth and economic significance of the American fur trade, 1790-1890. Minnesota History, 40(4), 210-220.

• Ebel, E. et al. (2023). Using bone technology and ZooMS to understand indigenous use of marine mammals at Iita, Northwest Greenland. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1-22.

• Fleming, A. (2021). Soay Sheep: The Back-story. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 31(3), 419-436.

• Hamilton, J. C. F. (2022). Hedgehogs and hedgehog-head boats in Ancient Egyptian religion in the late 3rd millennium BCE. In Arts (Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 31). MDPI.

• Huang, K. (2020). Shaping an Iconic Species : From the giant panda to the red panda and the Tibetan antelope (Dissertation).

• Montgomery, H. (2021) Scientists Actually Measured How Comfy Capybaras Feel When Bathing in Hot Springs. Vice.

• Moss, M. L. (2020). Did Tlingit ancestors eat sea otters? Addressing intellectual property and cultural heritage through zooarchaeology. American Antiquity, 85(2), 202-221.

• Shabani, F. et al. (2019). Climate‐driven shifts in the distribution of koala‐browse species from the Last Interglacial to the near future. Ecography, 42(9), 1587-1599.

• Tate, C. E. (2010). The axolotl as food and symbol in the basin of Mexico, from 1200 BC to today. Pre-Columbian foodways: interdisciplinary approaches to food, culture, and markets in ancient Mesoamerica, 511-533.

• Tolksdorf, J. F. et al. (2017). Beaver (Castor fiber) Activity in an Archaeological Context: A Mid-Holocene Beaver Burrow Feature and a Late-Holocene Ecofact at the Late Palaeolithic Grabow Site, Northern Germany. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 17(1), 36-50.

Contact

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The Zooarchaeology of Predator - Ep 63

Join us for this year’s Halloween episode where we discuss the zooarchaeology of the Predator franchise.
From Hellhounds to Feral Predators, join us on a journey through 36 years of concept art and creature design of one of pop culture’s most beloved franchises.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• Costamagno, S., Soulier, M. C., Val, A., & Chong, S. (2019). The reference collection of cutmarks. Palethnologie. Archéologie et sciences humaines, (10).

• Okumura, M., & Siew, Y. Y. (2013). An osteological study of trophy heads: unveiling the headhunting practice in Borneo. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 23(6), 685-697.

• Schultz, I. (2021) These Spikes Grew Right Out of a Dinosaur’s Ribs. Gizmodo.

• Celebrate the Predator: Revisiting the Original Predator Behind the Scenes at Stan Winston Studio

• Mammals' Unique Arms Started Evolving Before the Dinosaurs Existed

• Spider Anatomy
  Xenopedia

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

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The Creatures of Medieval Maps and Bestiaries - 62

Join us on a journey through the mystical world of medieval maps and bestiaries. We will cover a selection of creatures real and imagined, their portrayal in the medieval period and how they informed people’s perceptions of said creatures.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• The Hereford Mappa Mundi

• The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

• The Worksop Bestiary

• Harvey, PDA (1991) Introducing Medieval Maps. British Library.

• Livingstone, J. (2018) Travel, trade and exploration in the Middle Ages. British Library.

• Morrison, E. (2019) Beastly Tales from the Medieval Bestiary. British Library.

• Nigg, J. (2014) Olaus Magnus' Sea Serpent. The Public Doman Review.

• Waters, H. (2013) The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps. Smithsonian Magazine.

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

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Lactose Intolerants Beware! The Zooarchaeology of Dairy - Ep 61

In this episode we discuss all things dairy. Tune in to learn more about how several archaeology sub-disciplines come together to provide evidence for dairy production and consumption in the past. Also some interesting bog butter theories.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• Albarella, U. (1997). Size, power, wool and veal: zooarchaeological evidence for late medieval innovations. Environment and subsistence in medieval Europe, 9, 19-31.

• Bieleman, J. (2005). Technological innovation in Dutch cattle breeding and dairy farming, 1850–2000. The Agricultural History Review, 229-250.

• Bleasdale, M. et al. (2021). Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa. Nature communications, 12(1), 632.

• Charlton, S. et al. (2019). New insights into Neolithic milk consumption through proteomic analysis of dental calculus. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11, 6183-6196.

• Cramp, L. J. et al. (2014). Neolithic dairy farming at the extreme of agriculture in northern Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1791), 20140819.

• Curry, A. (2013). The milk revolution. Nature, 500(7460), 20.

• Greenfield, H. J. (2010). The Secondary Products Revolution: the past, the present and the future. World Archaeology, 42(1), 29-54.

• Hirst, K.K. (2019) Dairy Farming - the Ancient History of Producing Milk. Thought Co.

• Holmes, M. et al. (2021). Close Companions? A Zooarchaeological Study of the Human–Cattle Relationship in Medieval England. Animals, 11(4), 1174.

• Mattiangeli, V. et al. (2020). Genomic analysis of Irish bog butter. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31, 102368.

• Salque, M. et al. (2013). Earliest evidence for cheese making in the sixth millennium BC in northern Europe. Nature, 493(7433), 522-525.

• Ventresca Miller et al. (2023). Permafrost preservation reveals proteomic evidence for yak milk consumption in the 13th century. Communications biology, 6(1), 351.

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

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Ancient Crafts and Gross Stuff: Experimental Zooarchaeology - Ep 60

Join us as we delve into experimental archaeology through the lenses of zooarchaeology. How can replicating objects or activities from the archaeological record help us understand animal exploitation in the past? Tune in to find out more!

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• The Auerrind Project

• Bradfield, J. (2019). Fishing with gorges: Testing a functional hypothesis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 593-607.

• Fairnell, Eva H. (2008) 101 ways to skin a fur-bearing animal: the implications for zooarchaeological interpretation. Experiencing Archaeology by Experiment, 47-60.

• Gilson, S.P. et al. (2021) Shark teeth used as tools: An experimental archaeology study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35, 102733.

• Lev, M. A., et al. (2020). Squamate bone taphonomy: A new experimental framework and its application to the Natufian zooarchaeological record. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 9373.

• Mansrud, A., & Kutschera, M. (2020). Roe Deer as Raw Material for Middle Mesolithic Fishhooks? An Experimental Approach to the Manufacture of Small Bone Fishhooks. EXARC Journal, 3.

• Page, M. (2011). Butser Ancient Farm. EXARC Journal Digest, 23-25.

• Portillo, M. et al. (2021). The taphonomy of plant and livestock dung microfossils: an ethnoarchaeological and experimental approach. Environmental Archaeology, 26(4), 439-454.

• Pfeifer, W., & Claussen, M. (2016). Experiments on possible Stone Age glue types in. The Life Cycle of Structures in Experimental Archaeology: An Object Biography Approach, 115-127.

• Rodríguez-Alba, J.J. et al. (2019). First assessments of the taphonomic behaviour of jaguar (Panthera onca). Quaternary International, 517, 88-96.

• Rodríguez-Alcántara, Á. et al. (2021). Making Garum. Experimental archaeology methods. In Roman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, 171-177.

• Soulier, M. C., & Costamagno, S. (2017). Let the cutmarks speak! Experimental butchery to reconstruct carcass processing. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 11, 782-802.

• Steffen, M., & Mackie, Q. (2005). An experimental approach to understanding burnt fish bone assemblages within archaeological hearth contexts. Canadian Zooarchaeology, (23), 3-10.

• Tsai, G. E. et al. (2022). Bay salt in seventeenth-century meat preservation: how ethnomicrobiology and experimental archaeology help us understand historical tastes. BJHS Themes, 7, 63-93.

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Elephant or Cyclops? The Mistaken Identity of Animal Bones - Ep 59

From dragons, to unicorns and Divine Chickens, this episode is all about mythological creatures and how they may (or may not) have been inspired by fossilised remains of extinct species. Our friend Pliny the Elder makes an appearance once again, along with a peculiar extinct giraffe species.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• Bressan, D. (2012) Early Paleoart: Of Prehistoric Monsters and Men. Scientific American.

• Bressan, D. (2019) Nineteenth-Century Fossil Discoveries Influence Sea Serpent Reports. Forbes.

• Christen, A. G., & Christen, J. A. (2011). The unicorn and the narwhal: a tale of the tooth. Journal of the History of Dentistry, 59(3), 135-142.

• Duffin, C. J., & Davidson, J. P. (2011). Geology and the dark side. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 122(1), 7-15.

• Edmonds, P. (2018). The bunyip as uncanny rupture: Fabulous animals, innocuous quadrupeds and the Australian anthropocene. Australian Humanities Review, 63, 80-98.

• Hand, W.D. (2021). Magical Medicine: The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Folk Belief, Custom, and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America. University of California Press. p. 298.

• Mayor, A. and Heaney, M. (1993). "Griffins and Arimaspeans". Folklore. 104 (1–2): 40.

• Mayor, A. (2005). Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

• Mayor, A. (2011). The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times. Princeton University Press.

• McDaniel, S. (2020) Were Mythical Creatures Inspired by Fossils? Tales of Time Forgotten.

• Pappas, S. (2017) Cyclops and Dragon Tongues: How Real Fossils Inspired Giant Myths. LiveScience.

• Stothers, R. B. (2004). Ancient scientific basis of the “Great Serpent” from historical evidence. Isis, 95(2), 220-238.

• Witton, M.P. (2016) Why Protoceratops almost certainly wasn't the inspiration for the griffin legend. Mark P. Witton’s Blog.

• Xing, L., Mayor, A., Chen, Y., Harris, J. D., & Burns, M. E. (2011). The folklore of dinosaur trackways in China: Impact on Paleontology. Ichnos, 18(4), 213-220.

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• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

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From the Frontlines to the Trenches - Ep 58

Join us as we embark on another listener-requested episode topic, this time all about the zooarchaeology of animals used in warfare. From fiery pigs to Hannibal’s infamous elephants, we take a look at how animals from around the world have been integral to military operations from prehistory to World War I.

Links and Sources

• Ameen, C., Benkert, H., Fraser, T., Gordon, R., Holmes, M., Johnson, W., ... & Outram, A. K. (2021). In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(6), 1247-1257.

• Anthony, D. W., & Brown, D. R. (2017). The dogs of war: A Bronze Age initiation ritual in the Russian steppes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 48, 134-148.

• Bendrey, R. (2010). The horse. In T O’Connor and N J Sykes (eds) Extinctions and Invasions: a social history of British fauna, 10-16.

• Dobat, A. S., Price, T. D., Kveiborg, J., Ilkjær, J., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2014). The four horses of an Iron Age apocalypse: war-horses from the third-century weapon sacrifice at Illerup Aadal (Denmark). Antiquity, 88(339), 191-204.

• Kveiborg, J., & Nørgaard, M. (2022). Early Iron Age cavalry? Evidence of oral and thoracolumbar pathologies on possible warhorses from Iron Age, Denmark. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.

• Mahaney, W. C. (2020). The Hannibal enigma of 218 BC: A forensic exercise of importance to historical archaeology. Sci. Cult, 6, 7-24.

• Mayor, A. (2014). Animals in Warfare. In GL Campbell (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Oxford University Press, 282-293.

• Nicholls, E. (2012) Specimen of the Week: Week Fifty-Seven. UCL Culture Blog.

• Powell, E.A. (2013) Let Slip the Pigeons of War. Archaeology, 81(1303).

• Rees, O. (2020). Dogs of War, or Dogs in War? The Use of Dogs in Classical Greek Warfare. Greece & Rome, 67(2), 230-246.

• Romano, M., & Palombo, M. R. (2017). When legend, history and science rhyme: Hannibal’s war elephants as an explanation to large vertebrate skeletons found in Italy. Historical Biology, 29(8), 1106-1124.

• Sala, R. (2017). The domestication of camel in the literary, archaeological and petroglyph records. Journal of Arid Land Studies, 26(4), 205-211.

• Tsouparopoulou, C., & Recht, L. (2021). Dogs and equids in war in third millennium BC Mesopotamia. In L Recht & C Tsouparopoulou (eds) Fierce lions, angry mice and fat-tailed sheep: animal encounters in the ancient Near East. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 279-289.

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The Zooarchaeology of Star Wars - Ep 57

Episode II: Attack of the Alex

This episode, Alex and Simona dive back into the Star Wars universe and discuss the skeletal anatomy of a variety of creatures from both the canon lore and legends. Tune in to learn more about the possible ecology and anatomy of creatures such as the Krayt Dragon, the Kaadu and the Kowakian Monkey-Lizard and why nerf welfare is no laughing matter.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• Ashby, J. (2018). Specimen of the Week 338: a tour of the Platypus Skeleton. UCL Culture Blog.

• Eisenstadt, A. (2021). The True Story Behind How Pearls Are Made. Smithsonian Magazine.

• Glykou, A. (2014). Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic Sealers: a case study on the exploitation of marine resources during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the south-western Baltic Sea. 'Human Exploitation of Aquatic Landscapes' special issue (ed. Ricardo Fernandes and John Meadows), Internet Archaeology 37.

• Saladié, P., Huguet, R., Díez, C., Rodríguez‐Hidalgo, A., & Carbonell, E. (2013). Taphonomic modifications produced by modern brown bears (Ursus arctos). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 23(1), 13-33.

• Sansweet, S.J. and Hidalgo, P. (2008). The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. New York: Del Ray.

• Stokstradm E. (2004). A Whiff of Things to Come. Science.

• Wild E. R. (1997). Description of the adult skeleton and developmental osteology of the hyperossified horned frog, Ceratophrys cornuta (Anura:Leptodactylidae). Journal of morphology, 232(2), 169–206.
  Woo, M. (2018). BRIEF: Ancient Lizards Also Ran on Two Legs. Inside Science.

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• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction - What is it and What Does it Do? - Ep 56

This episode brings together episodes 53 to 55 as the unexpected finale of a ‘secret miniseries’ on how zooarchaeology can be used to reconstruct palaeoenvironments in conjunction with other archaeological subdisciplines. But how can the presence or absence of a given toad species infer on past environments? Tune in to find out! Case studies feature the humble European pond turtle/terrapin/tortoise and the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of an Upper Pleistocene hyena den in Bois Roche, France.

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• Betts, M. W., Maschner, H. D., Clark, D. S., Moss, M. L., & Cannon, A. (2011). Zooarchaeology of the “Fish That stops”. Moss, ML and Cannon, A., The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries, University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, 171-195.

• Foden, W. B. et al. (2009). Species susceptibility to climate change impacts. Wildlife in a changing world–an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of threatened species, 77.

• Muniz, F. P., Bissaro-Júnior, M. C., Guilherme, E., Souza-Filho, J. P. D., Negri, F. R., & Hsiou, A. S. (2021). Fossil frogs from the upper Miocene of southwestern Brazilian Amazonia (Solimões Formation, Acre Basin). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41(6), e2089853.

• Sommerseth, I. (2011). Archaeology and the debate on the transition from reindeer hunting to pastoralism. Rangifer, 31(1), 111-127.

• Sommer, R. S., Persson, A., Wieseke, N., & Fritz, U. (2007). Holocene recolonization and extinction of the pond turtle, Emys orbicularis (L., 1758), in Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(25-28), 3099-3107.

• Sommer, R. S. et al. (2009). Unexpected early extinction of the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) in Sweden and climatic impact on its Holocene range. Molecular Ecology, 18(6), 1252-1262.

• Waters, J. M., Fraser, C. I., Maxwell, J. J., & Rawlence, N. J. (2017). Did interaction between human pressure and Little Ice Age drive biological turnover in New Zealand?. Journal of Biogeography, 44(7), 1481-1490.

• Villa, P., Goni, M. F. S., Bescos, G. C., Grün, R., Ajas, A., Pimienta, J. C. G., & Lees, W. (2010). The archaeology and paleoenvironment of an Upper Pleistocene hyena den: an integrated approach. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(5), 919-935.

• Yeomans, L. (2018). Influence of Global and Local Environmental Change on Migratory Birds: Evidence for Variable Wetland Habitats in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of the Southern Levant. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 18(1), 20-34.

• Zuffi, M. A. L.; Celani, A.; Foschi, E.; Tripepi, S. (2007). "Reproductive strategies and body shape in the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) from contrasting habitats in Italy". Italian Journal of Zoology. 271 (2): 218–224.

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Fine, Let's Rank Our Favourite Animal Bones - Ep 51

In this episode of ArchaeoAnimals, Alex and Simona put their party hats on to discuss their favourite animal bones as a (slightly belated) celebration of the first 50 episodes of the podcast!

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Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

• Motion

The Hitchhikers: the animals we didn’t really want to take with us but life, uh, finds a way (ARCHIVE) - Ep 42

What do the black rat and the grain weevil have in common? Learn more about the species mankind has ‘accidentally’ introduced, many now regarded as pests. Discover enchanting creatures such as the killer shrimp, and a beetle’s favourite past time.

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Links and References

• Invasive Non-Native Species Map

• National Wildlife Federation: Invasive Species

• O’Connor, T. & Sykes, N. (Eds.) (2010) Extinctions and Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna, Windgather Press

• Jones, R. (2015) House Guests House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home London: Bloomsbury

• The Black Rat

• “Killer Shrimp” Leaves Wake of Destruction

• Quagga & Zebra Mussels

• Mussel Mass in Lake Ontario

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

"Player One Needs Food Badly" - The Zooarchaeology of Video Game Cuisine - Ep 40

On this episode of ArchaeoAnimals, Simona and Alex are heading back into the world of video games - this time all about the culinary archaeology of popular video games. Learn more about what the rubbish pits of games such as The Witcher and Dragon Age would look like; also endless Skyrim quotes and Alex trying to eat everything.

Links

• Inexplicably Preserved Dungeon Meat - TV Tropes

• New insights into Irish bog butter - Current Archaeology

• Making 2,000-year-old Roman bread - British Museum Blog

• RECIPES | Witcher Kitchen - Fan Project

• Binford, L. (1981) Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. New York: Academic Press.

• Gelinas, B. et al. (2015) Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, Volume 2. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics.

• Monroe-Cassel, C. (2019) The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions

Food Items from Gauntlet

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Time Warped! Part Four: The Zooarchaeology of the Post Roman Period - Ep 38

In this episode of ArchaeoAnimals, Alex and Simona delve into the zooarchaeology of the post Roman period. Learn more about exquisitely carved combs, antler pottery stamps and very courageous sheep.

Links

• JORVIK Viking Centre - a must see attraction in York

• Stanley West, 1985. 'West Stow, the Anglo-Saxon Village, Suffolk', East Anglian Archaeology 24

• Crabtree, P. J. And Campana, D. V., 2013: Wool Production, Wealth and Trade in Middle Saxon England In Arbuckle, B. S. and McCarty, S., eds. Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, in press

• Pam Crabtree, 1989. 'West Stow, Suffolk: Anglo-Saxon Animal Husbandry', East Anglian Archaeology 47

Walrus Ivory Gaming Board from Coppergate

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Time Warped! Part Two: The Zooarchaeology of the Later Prehistoric - Episode 36

This is episode part 2 of our ‘Time Warped’ miniseries, covering the zooarchaeology of Britain across time. The instalment covers what is known as the Later Prehistoric Period, which spans from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman conquest. This episode’s case studies are Flag Fen and Carn Euny.

Links

• Must Farm

• Carn Euny Ancient Village

• Iron Age to Roman settlement with incorporated fogou and adjacent post-medieval cottage at Carn Euny

• Albarella, U. (2007) ‘The End of the Sheep Age: People and Animals in the Late Iron Age’, in Haselgrove, C. and Moore, T. (eds) The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 389–402.

• Dobney, K. and Ervynyck, A. (2007) ‘To Fish or Not to Fish? Evidence for the Possible Avoidance of Fish Consumption During the Iron Age Around the North Sea’, in Moore, C. H. and Tom (eds) The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond.

• Grant, A. (1989) ‘Economic or Symbolic? Animals and Ritual Behaviour’, in Garwood, P. et al. (eds) Sacred and Profane: Proceedings of a Conference on Archaeology, Ritual and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.

• Maltby, M. et al. (2018) ‘Counting Roman Chickens: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Human-Chicken Interactions in Roman Britain’, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 19, pp. 1003–1015.

• Serjeantson, D. (2007) ‘Intensification of Animal Husbandry in the Late Iron Age? The Contribution of Sheep and Pigs’, in Haselgrove, C. and Pope, R. (eds) The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 80–93.

Carn Euny

Fogou

Calf Skeleton from Must Farm

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Gotta Dig 'Em All! The Zooarchaeology of Pokemon - Ep 34

Following a listener’s request, this month’s episode is all about the skeletal morphology of Pokemon. Learn more about oviparous ghosts, witness Simona’s confusion at the concept, and entertain the idea that Gyrados is actually Jörmungandr.

Links

• Bulbugarden

• Sword and Shield Fossil Pokemon

• 12 Pokemon inspired by historicla events

• Guardians, Gods, Or Geodudes? Pokemon And Battling Animals

• Piltdown Hoax

• Pig statues in Bath

The Ancient Mew Hieroglyph

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Eagle Eyed Zooarchaeology - Looking at the Digital Animals in Assassin's Creed - Ep 33

This month’s episode focuses on the creatures of the Assassins’ Creed franchise. Unlike our previous video game episodes, where we reconstruct the morphology of fantasy creatures, we will explore the depiction of extant and extinct fauna in the historical reconstructions which form the basis of this video game franchise.

Links

• Assasins Creed Fandom

• Great Auk in Assasins Creed

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Swooping is Bad, Bones are Better: The Zooarchaeology of Dragon Age - Ep 31

Join us on the latest part of our imagined videogame zooarchaeology series! Following popular demand, this episode is all about Bioware’s Dragon Age and its weird and wonderful creatures. Learn more about battle nugs, gibbering horrors and the Dragon Age version of ‘ritual’: it’s magic!!

Sources

• Galinas, B. et al. (2015) Dragon Age: The World of Thedas - Volume 2

  Dark Horse Comics

• Dragon Age Fandom

A Dragon Skull from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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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.

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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You’re not supposed to be here! ‘Exotic’ species in the archaeological record - Episode 27

On this month’s episode, Alex and Simona were meant to discuss non-native species in the archaeological record. What actually happened is a mix of exotic pets, headphone-wearing animals and helpful ancient Roman advice.

Links

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/05/150525-ancient-egypt-zoo-pets-hierakonpolis-baboons-archaeology/

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2014/04/exotic-pets/

• https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/18/ben-fur-romans-brought-rabbits-to-britain-experts-discover

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/mar/15/animal-travellers-a-history-of-exotic-animals-in-the-uk-in-pictures

• Lockwood, J.L. et al. 2019. When pets become pests: the role of the exotic pet trade in vertebrate animals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(6).

• Mitchell, M.A. History of Exotic Pets. In Manual of Exotic Pet Practice. Elsevier.

• Toynbee, J.M.C. (2013) Animals in Roman Life & Art

  Barnsley: Pen & Sword

Baboon skeleton buried in Hierakonpolis (Photo Credit: Renee Friedman)

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm!

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/05/150525-ancient-egypt-zoo-pets-hierakonpolis-baboons-archaeology/

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2014/04/exotic-pets/

• https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/18/ben-fur-romans-brought-rabbits-to-britain-experts-discover

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/mar/15/animal-travellers-a-history-of-exotic-animals-in-the-uk-in-pictures

• Lockwood, J.L. et al. 2019. When pets become pests: the role of the exotic pet trade in vertebrate animals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17(6).

• Mitchell, M.A. History of Exotic Pets. In Manual of Exotic Pet Practice. Elsevier.

• Toynbee, J.M.C. (2013) Animals in Roman Life & Art

  Barnsley: Pen & Sword

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm!