Diary

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

Todays events:

Keine eventen

Future events:

date event
16/10/2026 “Speciating Pacific Salmon” • presentation

Online presentation by Erin Mooneyham
organised by the Zooarchaeology Interest Group (ZIG)
e-Mail: Madison McCartin
Zoom-Link

28/10/2026 “Animals and Power in the Ancient Near East” • conference

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
e-mail: symposiumanimalsandpower@gmail.com
web: registration

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/ippa2026 • session 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

17/11/2026 - 19/11/2026 6th ICAZ Camelid Zooarchaeology Working Group (GZA) Workshop • workshop

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile
e-mail: vitallerzooarqcamelidos@gmail.com

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

23/11/2026 - 28/11/2026 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

14/12/2026 - 16/12/2026 Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) • conference

Exeter, UK
web: tag2026.square.site

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Fragmented Bodies, Enduring Relations: Complex Post-Mortem Processes Across Species in Prehistory
• Recalling the Wild: Persistence, Loss, and the Making of More‑Than‑Human Worlds

04/01/2027 - 15/01/2027 Isotope Analysis • workshop

Cardiff University
web: anthroctr.org/program/2027-uk-isotope-winter

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
web: www.dainst.org/newsroom/noslug/829

04/04/2027 - 06/04/2027 “Farming in the Forest” • conference

Schöntal Monastery, Germany
e-mail: info@wald-feldbau.de
web: wald-feldbau.de/tagung202627

07/04/2027 - 11/04/2027 92nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) • conference

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
web: www.saa.org/AnnualMeeting

Archaeozoology related sessions:
• Animals in Context: The Central Role of Zooarchaeology in Interdisciplinary Studies
• Data in the Curation Box Unlocking the Potential of Legacy Collections through Zooarchaeological Research
• Experimental Zooarchaeology
• Hidden Faunas: Investigating the Importance of Niche & Non-Traditional Zooarchaeological Assemblages
• Historic Zooarchaeology
• Impactful and Effective Experimental Zooarchaeology: Methods, Applications, and Pedagogy
• Shared Worlds: Rethinking the Archaeologies of Human–Wild Species Relations
• Zooarchaeology in Under 300 Words! (poster session)

13/05/2027 - 15/05/2027 “The Livestock Engine: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Medieval Economies” • conference session

Session at the 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS)
Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
e-mail: Erin Crowley-Champoux
web: wmich.edu/medievalcongress

17/05/2027 - 22/05/2027 International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) • conference

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
e-mail: Aleksa Alaica • Christina Giovas
web: conference website • alexandriaarchive.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