Diary

Hybrid session at the 7th Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Archaeology
University of Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: Kinga Winnicka
web: www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl

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

Online discussion of the Gesellschaft für Archäozoologie und Prähistorische Anthropologie (GAPA)
with keynotes by Nisa Kirchengast & Benjamin Sichert
e-mail: gapa-vorstand@gmx.de
web: www.gapa-kn.de

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

University of Glasgow
e-mail: Nicki Whitehouse
web: intothewildnetwork.glasgow.ac.uk

Online-Workshop
e-mail: Lizzie Wright

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

Montpellier, France
e-Mail: animed@cnrs.fr

Univerity of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
e-mail: whales@hi.is
web: whales.hi.is

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

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

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 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“

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)

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

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

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: MWG3@naturalsciences.be
web: www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/news/3rd-icaz-medieval-period-working-group-meeting-7-10-october-2026

Session at the 23rd Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) Congress
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
e-mail: Juan Rofes
web: www.ippasecretariat.org/ippa2026 • session description

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

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

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)

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