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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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Friday 29 May 2009, by Carine Tomé
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 (...)

Friday 29 May 2009, by Carine Tomé
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 (...)

Wednesday 27 May 2009, by Carine Tomé
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 (...)

Wednesday 27 May 2009, by Carine Tomé
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 (...)

Tuesday 26 May 2009, by Olivier PUTELAT
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.