Throughout this year (2006) Sebastián Muñoz and Mariana Mondini, of CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, the national science and technology council in Argentina), will be starting a new lab called Laboratorio de Zooarqueología y Tafonomía, focused on zooarchaeological and taphonomic problems of the arid areas in Southern South America. It is being funded by CONICET, and is based at the Museo de Antropología of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (see (...)

The web page of the Zooarchaeology Lab of the University of Sheffield has just gone live. The web page contains interesting information about the Zooarchaeological research, teaching and other activities of the Archaeology Department of the University of Sheffield. A downloadable file of the database of our reference collection has also been made available. We welcome any enquiries or comments about the web page and the activities of the Zooarchaeology Lab, and we are open to discuss (...)

During the last ten years, the French institutions in charge of archaeology (CNRS, INRAP - national agency for rescue archaeology-, National Museum of Natural History) provided altogether nearly 30 permanent positions of archaeozoologists. The French community of archaeozoologists is now composed of more than 55 permanent scientists, researchers and engineers as well, and of the same number of post-docs and PhD. Most of them have accepted to appear in the yearbook which is now available on (...)

Map of main french laboratories of archaeozoology After the "Collectif" (1999), we consider that a laboratory of archaeozoology is a place where research and formation are conducted and where archaeozoologists are united around a reference collection. In France, we can register 13 laboratories of archaeozoology : 1. Laboratoire d’archéozoologie de Compiègne (Centre Archéologique de la Vallée de l’Oise, CRAVO, UMR 5197) : correspondant Jean-Hervé Yvinec (JHYvinec@aol.com) (...)