Diary

Events concerned with archaeozoology, taphonomy, boneworking and related subjects.
Contributions welcome. Drop me a line.

Todays events:

date event
22/03/2024 - 27/04/2025 Skelette – Choreografen der Bewegung • exhibition

Museum Mensch und Natur, Schloss Nymphenburg, München, Germany
e-mail: museum@musmn.de
web: mmn-muenchen.snsb.de/skelette
01/02/2025 - 10/08/2025 Säbelzahnkatzen • exhibition

Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg, Germany
e-mail: museum@naturundmensch.de
web: www.naturundmensch.de/ausstellung/saebelzahnkatzen

Future events:

date event
22/03/2024 - 27/04/2025 Skelette – Choreografen der Bewegung • exhibition

Museum Mensch und Natur, Schloss Nymphenburg, München, Germany
e-mail: museum@musmn.de
web: mmn-muenchen.snsb.de/skelette
01/02/2025 - 10/08/2025 Säbelzahnkatzen • exhibition

Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg, Germany
e-mail: museum@naturundmensch.de
web: www.naturundmensch.de/ausstellung/saebelzahnkatzen
26/03/2025 - 28/03/2025 9th Meeting of the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group (APWG) • conference

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
e-mail: Maaike Groot
web: animalpalaeopathologywg.wordpress.com • alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workapwg
12/04/2025 - 13/04/2025 Of Mountains and Rivers: Perspectives in Environmental Archaeology” • conference

Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) spring conference
Sofia University, Bulgaria
e-mail: aea2025sofia@gmail.com
web: envarch.net/events
23/04/2025 - 27/04/2025 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) • conference

Denver, Colorado, USA
e-mail: info@saa.org
web: www.saa.org/annual-meeting

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Animal Matters: Ethics in Zooarchaeology from Discovery to Display
• Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and other Non-Academic Spaces
• Complex Human-Animal Interactions in the Americas
• Fishing Technologies: Exploring Manufacturing Techniques and Styles, Traditions, Exchange, Migration and More
• Scaling New Heights: Recent Advances in Andean Zooarchaeology
• Unfinished Business and Untold Stories: Digging into the Complexity of ‘Animal Domestication’
24/04/2025 - 27/04/2025 6th Nordic Zooarchaeology Meeting • conference

Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
e-mail: Kennth Ritchie & Jacob Kveiborg
06/05/2025 “Wild or domestic? Research on artificial Bird Nesting Sites” • workshop

online workshop
e-mail: Dolly Jørgensen • Thomas Reitmaier
15/05/2025 - 17/05/2025 “Food Economies in Iron Age Europe: Production and Consumption from the Mountains to the Coast” • 49th Colloquium of the Association Française pour l’Étude de l’Âge du Fer (AFEAF) • conference

Universitat de Lleida, Spain
e-mail: Ariadna Nieto
web: fundacio.udl.cat/en/project/49e-colloque-international-de-lafeaf
22/05/2025 - 25/05/2025 “Subsistence and health: Archaeology of the emerging food systems, dietary patterns and lifestyle maladies” • conference session

Session at the 2nd Conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe (ENE2025)
Zadar, Croatia
e-mail: Ivana Živaljević
web: conference.unizd.hr/ene2025
25/05/2025 - 28/05/2025 16th Meeting of the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group (ASWA) • conference

Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB) München, Germany
e-mail: Nadja Pöllath & Joris Peters
web: spm.snsb.de/staatssammlung-fuer-palaeoanatomie-muenchen/icaz-working-group-archaeozoology-of-southwest-asia-and-adjacent-areas • alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workaswa
02/06/2025 - 07/06/2025 “Farming and its Societal Impacts during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Southwest Asia” • Conference session

Session at the 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE)
Lyon, France
e-mail: Shyama Vermeersch
web: 14icaane.inviteo.fr/inscriptions/en/nbspnbsp/4
16/06/2025 - 20/06/2025 Introduction to Bioarchaeology • workshop

Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece
e-mail: programs@ascsa.org
web: www.ascsa.edu.gr/programs/summer-archaeological-science-courses/wl-bioarchaeology-summer-course
25/06/2025 - 28/06/2025 “Back to the Future’: Zooarchaeological Isotope Approaches to Modern Questions” • conference

ICAZ Stable Isotopes Working Group meeting
Reading, UK
e-mail: juliette.waterman@READING.AC.UK
web: zooarchisotopes.com
01/07/2025 - 04/07/2025 ICAZ IC- & EC-Meeting and Conference • conference

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
e-mail: Cleia Detry
26/08/2025 - 29/08/2025 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA 11) • conference

Turin, Italy
e-mail: organising-committee@isba11.com
web: www.isba11.com
26/08/2025 - 29/08/2025 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA) • conference

Turin, Italy
e-mail: organising-committee@isba11.com
web: isba11.com
03/09/2025 - 06/09/2025 31st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) • conference

Belgrade, Serbia
e-mail: helpdesk@e-a-a.org
web: www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Session 14: Prehistoric Exploitation of Waterscapes and Aquatic Resources
• Session 53: Neanderthal-Homo sapiens subsistence differences 60,000 to 40,000 years ago in Central and Southeast Europe
• Session 104: Animal Diet, Reproduction, Mobility, and Health: Insights from Isotope Ratio and Biomarker Analysis
• Session 106: Mountain Pastoralism Through Time: Archaeological Insights and Contemporary Connections
• Session 113: All for one, understand human and non-human relationships in coastal and island contexts from an interdisciplinary perspective
• Session 161: Moving while Staying. Staying for Moving. Redefining Mobility as interpretative tool for Archaeology
• Session 200: Human-animal relationships in a connected North Atlantic, AD 500-1500
19/11/2025 - 22/11/2025 “New Approaches to Ancient Animals” • conference session

Session at the Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
Boston, USA
e-mail: Theo Kassebaum • Christine Mikeska
web: www.asor.org/am/2025/call-for-papers-2025
23/04/2026 - 25/04/2026 „Engraved bones: Gripping aids, signs, and decorations“ • workshop

Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin, Germany
Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP)
commission „Modified Bone and Shell“
e-mail: Ewa Dutkiewicz • Éva David
web: uispp.net/en/commissions/activities/international-workshop-engraved-bones
16/06/2026 - 19/06/2026 11th Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) • conference

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL), Portugal
e-mail: pzaf2026@gmail.com
web: sites.google.com/view/11pzaf?usp=sharing
22/06/2026 - 25/06/2026 5th Meeting of the ICAZ Roman Period Working Group (RPWG) • conference

University of Lisbon, Portugal
e-mail: Cleia Detry
web: alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workroman

Permanent exhibitions

“Rentierjäger – Rentierzüchter”
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany
tel.: +49-462-813 35 35
e-mail: info@schloss-gottorf.de

“Wale in Schleswig-Holstein”
Zoologisches Museum, Universität Kiel, Germany
tel.: +49-431-880-5170
e-mail: zoolmuseum@email.uni-kiel.de
internet: www.uni-kiel.de/zoologisches-museum