Diary

Events concerned with archaeozoology, taphonomy, boneworking and related subjects.
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19/07/2026 - 23/07/2026 “Faunal Responses to Late Pleistocene Climate Change in Europe: From Cave Bears to Modern Humans” • conference session

Session at the conference Paleo4Alps
Bolzano, Italy
e-mail: Anneke van Heteren
web: www.unibz.it/en/events/paleo4alps-2026

11/08/2026 - 13/08/2026 “Fauna and Humans in the Neotropics: Biocultural Heritage and Connections Across Biomes” • 6th Meeting of the ICAZ Neotropical Zooarchaeology Group (NZWG) • conference

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

26/08/2026 - 29/08/2026 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) • conference

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 47: “Genes, Bones, and Trade: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Ancient Mobility”
Session 50: “Traceology of bone artefacts: state of the art and research perspectives”
Session 55: “Domesticates in the desert: investigating the role and impact of domestication facing challenging environments”
Session 164: “Decoding Faunal Assemblages: Scientific Approaches to Animal Remains in Archaeology

31/08/2026 - 04/09/2026 21st Congress of the Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) • conference

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

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Cave taphonomy: Beyond human subsistence strategies (1E)
• Historiographie of Archaeozoologie in Europe (2D)
• Beyond boundaries: Transdisciplinary pathways in exploring Late Quaternary human-environmental interaction (4A)
• Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: New evidences and emerging perspectives (4B)
• Integrating multidisciplinary approaches to reconstruct human-environment relationships in the Pleistocene past (4C)
• Prey and hunters: Investigating subsistence strategies from the Pleistocene to the Holocene (4E)
• The impact of anthropisation on marine and coastal environments in the past (5A)
• Ascending Tides: The logistics, materiality, and social integration of marine resources in inland prehistory (5A)
• Plants, humans and animal interactions: Global perspectives from Pleistocene to the Holocene (7A)
• Depicted vs consumed: When rock art shows species absent from the faunal record (11I)
• Deer and Death across the Euro-Atlantic façade during the Holocene: towards ArtLantic landscapes (11K)
• Upper Palaeolithic subsistence strategies (14D)
• The mounted warrior and his companions (horse, dog) in Eurasian tombs (4th–1st millennia BC) (18A)
• Miniature and miniaturisation. Artefactual, technical and symbolic issues in worked material used as tools (24C)

09/09/2026 - 10/09/2026 “Animal Diseases Through Time: Diagnosis and Impacts” • conference

Paris, France
e-mail: maladi@sciencesconf.org
web: maladi.sciencesconf.org

15/09/2026 - 16/09/2026 Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology (IZAZ) • workshop

Workshop at the annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
Burgos, Spain
e-mail: Samantha Brown
web: www.eshe.eu/meetings

28/09/2026 - 03/10/2026 23th international meeting of the ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG) • conference

Nice, France
e-mail: frwg.nice2026@univ-cotedazur.fr
web: www.cepam.cnrs.fr/icaz-frwg-2026alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workfish

03/10/2026 “Sheep and Goats” • Meeting of the Professional Zooarchaeology Group (PZG) • workshop

University of Sheffield
e-mail: Lenny Salvagno
web: www.riches.ukri.org/funding/riches-investments/tranche-1-collections/university-of-sheffield-bioarchaeology-collections-sheff-bioarch

05/10/2026 - 09/10/2026 16th meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group (WBRG) • conference

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

06/10/2026 - 07/10/2026 5th International Anthrozoology Conference • conference

University of Debrecen, Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary
e-mail: antrozoologia.konf@gmail.com
web: antrozoologiakonf.wordpress.com

07/10/2026 - 10/10/2026 3rd meeting of the ICAZ Medieval Period Working (MWG) • conference

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: MWG3@naturalsciences.be
web: www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/news/3rd-icaz-medieval-period-working-group-meeting-7-10-october-2026

02/11/2026 - 07/11/2026 “Toward a holistic Understanding of Human-Animal Interactions in Indo-Pacific Prehistory: Advances in Zooarchaeological Research” • conference session

Session at the 23rd Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) Congress
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
e-mail: Juan Rofes
web: www.ippasecretariat.org/ippa2026session description

16/11/2026 - 20/11/2026 Conference of the Gesellschaft für Archäozoologie und Prähistorische Anthropologie (GAPA) • conference

Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale), Germany
e-mail: gapa-vorstand@gmx.de
web: www.gapa-kn.de/tagungen.html

18/11/2026 - 21/11/2026 “New Approaches to Ancient Animals” • conference session

Session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
Chicago, USA
e-mail: Theo Kassebaum & Christine Mikeska
web: www.asor.org/am

14/12/2026 - 16/12/2026 “Fragmented Bodies, Enduring Relations: Complex Post-Mortem Processes Across Species in Prehistory” • conference session

Session at the Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)
Exeter, UK
mail: Nelson AlmeidaEleanor Swallow
web: tag2026.square.site

28/01/2027 - 03/02/2027 22nd Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) • conference

Indira Gandhi Pratishthan (IGP), Lucknow, India
e-mail: inqua.india@bsip.res.in
web: www.inquaindia2027.in

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Domestication and Pastoralism in Inner Asia: Archaeological Perspectives on Social and Biotic Change (session 101)
• Taphonomy and Neo-taphonomy in Prehistoric Contexts: Bridging Fossil Records with Actualistic Models (session 148)

18/03/2027 - 20/03/2027 Bioarchaeology in Türkiye • conference

Bilkent University and Hacettepe University, Turkey
e-mail: bioarch2027@bilkent.edu.tr

17/05/2027 - 21/05/2027 International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) • conference

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
e-mail: Aleksa AlaicaChristina Giovas
web: conference websitealexandriaarchive.org/icaz/meetings-international

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