By Laerke Recht, associate editor in Zooarchaeology
As my first contribution to this newsletter, I want to highlight two new zooarchaeology-related things that I am excited about:
First, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences has a new topical volume out focussed on birds. Birds tend not to receive their due attention (and their small bones are easily missed during excavations), so this is a very welcome volume, with papers presenting case studies from a range of sites and periods. Avian Zooarchaeology: Prehistoric and Historical Insights can be found here:
https://link.springer.com/journal/12520/topicalCollection/AC_95068cc6b9df1724235fd15d5ea3540e/page/1
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| Panthera tigris and Carpomys undescr. sp. (undescribed novel species) |
Second, Dr. Janine Ochoa recently successfully defended her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge on the topic of Island Biodiversity and Human Palaeoecology in the Philippines: A zooarchaeological study of Late Quaternary faunas. It includes evidence for a previously unknown (and now extinct) giant cloud rat. A summary of the thesis can be found here:
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