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Dear all, due to a few cancellations there are about 5 places available for non-members at our Professional Zooarchaeology Meeting, tomorrow at Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury- see programme below.  Please contact myself, Fay Worley or Lorrain Higbee by 4PM today if you are interested in attending.  With best wishes, Poly
 

Professional Zooarchaeology Group

15th meeting, March 2nd, 2013

Seminar Room

Wessex Archaeology

Portway House

Old Sarum Park

Salisbury

Wiltshire

SP4 6EB

 

 

Mammalian carnivores in the archaeological record: Methodological and interpretive aspects

 

 

Programme

 

10:00 Welcome with tea/coffee

 

10:30-10:50 Jaco Weinstock: Epiphyseal fusion and sexual dimorphism in brown bears

 

10:50-11:10 Jaco Weinstock: Cave bears (aDNA; changing sex ratios in caves)

 

11:10-11:40 Aleks Pluskowski: The archaeology of the European wolf (Canis lupus lupus): current research and debates

 

11:40-11:55 coffee

 

11:55-12:15 Wendy Howard: Carnivore use by Prehistoric Peoples: Identifying practices through archaeology, ethnography and actualistic experiments

 

12:15-12:30 Eva Fairnell: Carnivores and cut marks: data acquisition and interpretation

 

12:30-12:45 Frazer Bowen: History of polecats/ferrets

 

12:45-13:30 Lunch

 

13:30-13:45 Mattie Holmes: Now you see us... Now you don’t -  the visibility of wild and semi-wild carnivores in the post Roman archaeological record

 

13:45-14:00 Lena Strid: Utilisation of fur animals in the Danish mesolithic - a case study

 

14:00-16:00 Identification practicals: Canids, felids, mustelids

 

16:00 AOB

 

 

Dr. Polydora Baker

Senior Zooarchaeologist

English Heritage

Heritage Protection

Fort Cumberland

Fort Cumberland Rd.

Eastney, Portsmouth

P04 9LD

Tel.: 02392 856774

FAX: 02392 856701

 

Note: I am in the office Monday and Tuesday (9:30-17:00) and Wednesday and Thursday (9:30-14:00) of each week.

 

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http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/environmental_archaeology

 

 

 

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