Diary

Session at the Annual Meeting of the theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)
University of York
e-mail: amy.holguin@york.ac.uk
web: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

Online-presentation by Stuart Black
within the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Webinar series
“Linking modern pathological reference cases and collections to paleopathological research on zooarchaeological datasets”
registration
e-mail: Maaike Groot & Audrey Crabbé
web: animalpalaeopathologywg.wordpress.com

Online-presentation by Ingrid Mainland
within the Prähistorisches Kolloquium of the Universität zu Köln
Zoom-link
e-mail: Nadine Nolde
web: ufg.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/aktuelles/praehistorisches-kolloquium

National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Nairobi, Kenya
e-mail: info@mammothconf.co.ke
web: mammothconf.co.ke

Online-presentation by László Bartosiewicz
within the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Webinar series
“Linking modern pathological reference cases and collections to paleopathological research on zooarchaeological datasets”
e-mail: Maaike Groot & Audrey Crabbé
web: animalpalaeopathologywg.wordpress.com

Mediterranean Zooarchaeology Symposium
online conference
e-mail: medzooarch@gmail.com
web: www.artuklu.edu.tr/medzooarch

Online-presentation by Richard Thomas
within the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Webinar series
“Linking modern pathological reference cases and collections to paleopathological research on zooarchaeological datasets”
e-mail: Maaike Groot & Audrey Crabbé
web: animalpalaeopathologywg.wordpress.com

University of Oulu, Finland
e-mail: Markku Niskanen

Online-presentation by Achim Gruber
within the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Webinar series
“Linking modern pathological reference cases and collections to paleopathological research on zooarchaeological datasets”
e-mail: Maaike Groot & Audrey Crabbé
web: animalpalaeopathologywg.wordpress.com

San Francisco, California, USA
e-mail: info@saa.org
web: www.saa.org/annual-meeting

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Standardization in Zooarchaeology
• Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice
• From Interactions to Management: Mutualistic Human–Animal Relationships in the Archaeological Record of the Americas
• Microfauna in Archaeological Contexts: Challenges and Methodological Considerations
• Beyond the Osseous: Applications of Soft-Tissue Analysis in Zooarchaeolog
• Invertebrates in Global Archaeological Perspectives
• Marine Resource Exploitation in the Preindustrial Americas: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fisheries Baselines
• Provisioning Who? Rethinking Archaeological Models for Animal Procurement and Management
• The Archaeology of Food and Foodways: Emerging Trends and New Perspectives

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

Session at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
E-mail: Pam Crabtree
web: wmich.edu/medievalcongress

Online-presentation by Deb Bennett
within the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Webinar series
“Linking modern pathological reference cases and collections to paleopathological research on zooarchaeological datasets”
e-mail: Maaike Groot & Audrey Crabbé
web: animalpalaeopathologywg.wordpress.com

Online conference
Izmir, Turkey
e-mail: paphlagonia@deu.edu.tr
web: www.wbrg.net/wp-content/uploads/2026_Izmir_Poster.pdf

Session at the Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC)
e-mail: Alexandra Livarda
web: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk

Conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
e-mail: isfnr2026@nomadit.co.uk
web: isfnr.org/we-meet-across-the-world/reykjavik-iceland

University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
e-mail: Ruth Thurstan
web: oceanspast.org/conferences/announcing-oceans-past-xi-conference

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL), Portugal
e-mail: pzaf2026@gmail.com
web: sites.google.com/view/11pzaf?usp=sharing

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
e-mail: Cleia Detry
web: icaz-5th-rpwgm • Facebook • instagram • alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workroman

Faculty of Cultural Heritage Studies, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
e-mail: Diana Carvajal Contreras
web: www.uexternado.edu.co/estudios-del-patrimonio-cultural/especial-destacado-neotropical-zooarchaeology-working-group

Athens, Greece
e-mail: helpdesk@e-a-a.org
web: www.e-a-a.org/EAA2026/EAA2026/Home.aspx

Archaeozoology related sessions:
Session 17: “Bringing together zooarchaeology, archaeogenomics and morphometry: shaping the future of interpretation”
Session 55: “Domesticates in the desert: investigating the role and impact of domestication facing challenging environments”

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
e-mail: congress@amu.edu.pl
web: uispp2026.syskonf.pl

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Miniature and miniaturisation. Artefactual, technical and symbolic issues in worked material used as tools
• Historiographie de l’archéozoologie en Europe
• The knight and his companions (horse, dog) in Eurasian tombs (4th -1st millennia BC)

Nice, France
e-mail: Aurélia Borvon
web: alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workfish

Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Osmaniye, Turkey
e-mail: Ayça Gerçek
web: www.wbrg.net/meetings/16th-meeting-osmaniye

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: Bea de Cupere, Quentin Goffette, Wim Wouters

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
e-mail: Aleksa Alaica • Christina Giovas
web: alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/meetings-international