Original Title "EL PAPEL DE LOS ANIMALES EN LAS CULTURAS MESOAMERICANAS PREHISPÁNICAS - SEMBLANZA DE RECIENTES INVESTIGACIONES ZOOARQUEOLÓGICOS Y PALEOBOTÁNICOS". Symposium organizers Raúl Valadez Azúa, PhD (Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México; tel: +52 55 5622-95-35, correo electrónico: raul_valadez@hotmail.com) Christopher M. Götz, PhD (Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México; tel: +52 999 (...)

The transmission and impact of animal disease is a critically important issue in contemporary society. Amongst domestic livestock, disease and poor animal health can profoundly affect local, regional and global economies. In wild animals, disease can not only significantly affect population numbers, but can alter ecosystems and threaten biodiversity. Transmissible animal diseases (zoonoses) account for high levels of sickness and mortality rates in both human and animal populations in many (...)

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Christian- Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology invites applications for a professorship in Archaeozoology and Isotope Research tenable as soon as it may be arranged. The focus of the professorship is on archaeozoology. The successful applicant is expected to have beyond traditional archaeozoological methods also broad experience with stable isotope systems of H, C, N, O, and Sr (...)

Summary When a bone of unknown origin is found at a location, forensic implications arise immediately. Is this bone human, and if so, is it evidence of a murder? Human and Non-Human Bone Identification: A Color Atlas presents a comprehensive handbook of photographs and other information essential for law enforcement and forensic anthropologists when examining skeletal remains and determining species and body parts. Presenting over 3000 color photographs, this atlas is a practical (...)

A carpologist colleague found these residues in a sample from a subaquatic medieval context. She wondered if it can’t be preserved animal parts. Can you help us in determining these remains? It’s in your opinion remains of plant or animal? Thank you in advance.