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Fish remains working group
Latest addition : Friday 20 June 2008
The Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG) was created during an informal meeting held at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen in 1980. Its members are an interdisciplinary consortium of researchers (archaeozoologists, archaeologists, zoologists, ichthyologists, historians, and fishery biologists) interested not only in the study of fish remains retrieved in archaeological sites from around the world, but also on any matter dealing with fishing, the fish trade, and fish consumption in prehistoric and historic times.
Friday 20 June 2008, by Foss Leach
Name of Member Email Address Home Page Albarella Umberto Umberto.Albarella@durham.ac.uk Link Allen Melinda Sue ms.allen@auckland.ac.nz No Link Anderson Atholl J. aja@coombs.anu.edu.au Link Barber Ian ibarber@historic.org.nz No Link Barrett James jhb5@york.ac.uk No Link Bassett Everett slcejb@dames.com No Link Bartosiewicz Laszlo H10459bar@ella.hu No Link Belcher William R. BelcherW@cilhi.army.mil Link Benecke N. eurasien@zedat.fu-berlin.de No Link Béarez Philippe bearez@ifeanet.org No Link (...)

Friday 20 June 2008, by Arturo Morales Muniz
On the morning of the 28th of August, 1981, the founders of what was later to become the I.C.A.Z. Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG) met for the first time at the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. The meeting, attended by 16 people (Table 1), took place at the request of a small group of scholars, notable among which were Inge Bodker and Knud Rosenlund of the host institution, which had for years felt the need for a more systematic analysis of fish bones retrieved (and often missed!) (...)