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In the cooperative sites tradition which flourish on the Web, the site "Archéozoo" is at archaeozoologists’s disposal. The UMR 7209 (formerly 5197), on the initiative of this project, would like to create a place for exchanges. The site allow, for the community as a whole, to pool easily tools and information about archaeozoology.
This site, made with the publication system SPIP, allow to add very easily technical notes or informations under various forms submit to the site’s administrators for validation. For this, all you have to do is to obtain the automatic registration from the home page.
The site is organized around sections that can contain numerous articles and links. When you are regeistered you become author with the automatic signature of your contributions. Each author can illustrate an article with pictures and attach files. You can also suggest interseting web links.
The structure site, organized around a database "Mysql", allow powerful internal research fonctions and transform all these articles into a base of knowledge. So we have here, at disposal, a powerful cooperative tool and supplier of links. The creation of discussion forums after each article is also possible.

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Predators in all their states : Evolution, Biodiversity, Interactions, Myths, Symbols (France, Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, 21 - 23 october 2010)

Monday 1 February 2010, by Carine Carpentier

Organisation commitee Jean-Philip BRUGAL (MMSH – UMR 6636) Armelle GARDEISEN (CNRS – UMR 5140) Arnaud ZUCKER (CNRS – UMR 6130 – CEPAM) Scientific commitee Benvenido MARTINEZ-NAVARRO (Univ. Tarragona, Espagne) Philippe FOSSE (CNRS, UMR 5608, Toulouse, France) Maria-Rita PALOMBO (Univ. Roma, CNR, Italie) Christophe CHANDEZON (Univ. Montpellier III, France) Liora HORWITZ (Hebrew Univ., Jérusalem, Israël) Haskel GREENFIELD Jean-Marc MORICEAU (Univ. (...)

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The Meeting Place: Integrating Ethnobiological Knowledge (8 May 2010, Victoria, British Columbia)

Monday 25 January 2010, by Carine Carpentier

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 15 Feb 2010 DEADLINE FOR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: 1 March 2010 This year’s conference theme celebrates the potential of ethnobiology to bridge disciplines, ideas, and communities, and to foster an understanding of the connections between the biological and cultural worlds. Specifically, we invite papers and posters that: Are multi-disciplinary Recognize the importance of traditional knowledge in conservation and restoration Integrate (...)

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The Chora of Metaponto 2 : Archaeozoology at Pantanello and Five Other Sites

Monday 25 January 2010, by Carine Carpentier

From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in the ancient territory (chora) of Metaponto, now located in the modern province of Basilicata on the southern coast of Italy. This wide-ranging investigation, which covers a number of sites and a time period ranging from prehistory to the Roman Empire, has unearthed a wealth of new information about the ancient rural economy in southern Italy. (...)

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Monstrous Fishes and ‘Bones of No Small Bigness’: New Approaches to Cetacean Zooarchaeology and Medieval Whaling

Thursday 12 November 2009, by Carine Carpentier

Complex and Literate Societies Research Group - SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE Dr. Vicki Szabo (Associate Professor, Western Carolina University) Tuesday 24th November 2009 Room 209, 5-6pm (followed by drinks in the SCR) Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY ALL WELCOME — Dr Joe Flatman, MIfA, FSA Lecturer in Archaeology Institute of Archaeology 31-34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY j.flatman@ucl.ac.uk DL +44 (0)20 7679 4666 M (...)

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Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice (Athens, 10-12 September 2009)

Monday 20 July 2009, by Carine Carpentier

The Swedish Institute at Athens is organizing a conference entitled “Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice”. The event will take place in Athens, on the 10th-12th of September 2009. The purpose of the conference is to highlight the role and contribution of the osteological evidence for our understanding of Greek sacrificial ritual, especially from a methodological perspective. It also aims at a discussion of the relation of (...)

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