– Full Program –
Tuesday 8 August 2023
10:00am - 3:00pm
Pre-Conference Tour – Rainforestation Australian Experience
9:00am - 12:00pm
Pre-Conference Tour – Hands on Country Eco-Tour
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Welcome Reception and Welcome to Country
The Backyard by Shangri-La The Marina
Wednesday 9 August 2023
8:30am - 9:00am
Conference Opening:
Welcome by Conference Chair
Welcome by ICAZ President
Plenary 1 & 2
9:00am - 10:00am
Plenary Session:
The Promise and Pitfalls of Zooarchaeology and Historical Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene: Cases Studies from California’s Channel Islands
Todd Braje
Plenary 1 & 2
10:00am - 10:30am | MORNING TEA
10:30am - 12:30pm
Plenary 1
When and How did the Domestic Cat Come to Central Europe?
Plenary 2
Lidia Colominas
Meeting Room M9
Impacts of Pleistocene Extinctions on Zooarchaeological Assemblages From Around the World
Benjamin E. Carter
Finding the Devils in the Details: Actualistic Studies to Inform Our Understanding of Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) Diet in Different Environments
Lauren Cunningham
Using Late Quaternary Cave Deposits from Northeastern Queensland, Australia to Establish Biodiversity Baselines for Conservation
Vikram Vakil
Rewilding in Partnership with Australian Aboriginal Communities
Michael Westaway
Geochemical Analyses of Zooarchaeological Remains for Climate, Seasonality, Dietary, and Mobility Reconstructions
Meeting Room M10
Looking at Contemporary Marine Gastropod Shells: A Path to Decrypt Holocene People-ENSO Information Stored in Buried Shells in the Great Barrier Reef
Mahsa Alidoostsalimi
Trace Element Analysis of Archaeological and Modern Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) Otoliths: Implications for Pre-European Māori Fisheries in the Hauraki Gulf, Northern New Zealand
Matthew Campbell
One of These Clams is Not Like the Others: Negotiating Precision in Archaeological Reconstructions of Sea-Surface Temperatures and Shellfish Harvesting with Isotope Sclerochronology
Meghan Burchell
Investigating Late Quaternary Environmental Change and Seasonal Resource Use on Ngintait Country in the Central Murray Basin Using Freshwater Mollusc Sclerochronology
Chloe Stringer
30-Years of Paleoenvironmental Variation in the Northern Great Barrier Reef Reconstructed from Little Ice Age Giant Clam Shell Geochemistry
Bohao Dong
Multi-Proxy Analyses of Marine and Terrestrial Gastropod Shells Reveal Palaeoenvironmental Context for Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Hominins in the Levant
Amy Prendergast
12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH & POSTERS
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Plenary 1
Plenary 2
Meeting Room M9
Contextualizing Avian Management Decisions: A Case Study from Paquimé, Mexico
Caitlin Ainsworth
Shell Ornaments: Objects for Life and Death in Societies that Inhabited the Río de la Plata Coast Between ca. 3000 and 400 Years BP
Laura Beovide
Terrible Turtles: The Challenge and Success of aDNA Research on River Turtle Population Dynamics in Mesoamerica
Arianne Boileau
Fauna of the Colombian Caribbean During the Formative (3,300 BC): The Case of the Sueños de Libertad Site, Bolívar-Colombia
Diana Carvajal Contreras
Modeling Fishing Decisions along the South American Pacific Coast
Jean Hudson
Human Modification of Giant Sloth Bones in Brazil: Deep-Investigation of Artifacts from the Last Glacial Maximum
Thais Pansani
Geochemical Analyses of Zooarchaeological Remains for Climate, Seasonality, Dietary, and Mobility Reconstructions
Meeting Room M10
A Paleoenvironmental Framework: Using Mammoth Teeth for High-Resolution Reconstructions of the Paleoclimate and Human-Environment Interactions in the MIS 3 Rhine Catchment
Zuorui Liu
Farming and Feasting at the Bronze Age – Iron Age Transition in Britain: Multi-Isotope Evidence for Societal Change
Richard Madgwick
‘And How Are You Mooing Today?’ Herd Management in the Neolithic and Copper Age of Eastern Croatia
Goran Tomac
Moo-ving Around the Landscape: Isotopic Evidence for Cattle Mobility and Interconnections in the Southern Levant During the Early Bronze Age
Eleutério Abreu De Sousa
Disentangling the Mobility of Sheep and Goat Flocks at the LBA Hittite Şapinuva (Turkey) Through Sr, O and C Isotopes
Evangelia Piskin
Evaluating the Applicability of Cervid Teeth as Terrestrial Climate Proxies: Reflections on Modern Case Studies and Archaeological Examples
Suzanne Pilaar Birch
3:30pm - 4:00pm | AFTERNOON TEA
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Plenary 1
Plenary 2
Meeting Room M9
Mammal Morphometrics and Environmental Change Among the Ancient Maya
Autumn Rose
Multispecies Stories: An Approach to Human-Animal Relationships at the AZ-71 Funerary Site in Azapa Valley, South-Central Andes, Chile (1300 BC-800 AD)
Michelle Salgado Calquín
Animals as Persons: Identifying Human-Animal Relationships at the Indigenous Ceramic Age Site of El Carril, Dominican Republic
Zoë van Litsenburg
Geochemical Analyses of Zooarchaeological Remains for Climate, Seasonality, Dietary, and Mobility Reconstructions
Meeting Room M10
Sulfur Isotopes are an Indicator of Wetland Use
Eric Guiry
To Treat or Not to Treat? Methodological Considerations for Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Enamel
Karolina Varkuleviciute
Thursday 10 August 2023
9:00am - 10:00am
Plenary Session:
‘The Undiscovered Country’: Some Musings on Where Next for Archaeozoology?
Keith Dobney
Plenary 1 & 2
10:00am - 10:30am | MORNING TEA
10:30am - 12:30pm
Plenary 1
From Food Source to Transport: Bison and Horse on the Southern High Plains (USA). Taphonomy as a Tool for Further Insights into the Plains Lifeways of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Lila Jones
Nineteenth-Century Chinese Diaspora Fisheries in the American West and Beyond
Ryan Kennedy
Contrasting Identities: Comparing Faunal Remains From Chinese and European Settlement Contexts at Two Late 19th/Early 20th Century Queensland Archaeological Sites
Marc Cheeseman
The Transportation of Oysters in 19th-Century North America and Its Impact on Inland Foodways
Eric Tourigny
Plenary 2
Meeting Room M9
Human-Animal Relations Reflected in an Ancient Indian Sanskrit Text – Kautiliya Arthashastra
Gauri Bedekar
Strontium Isotope Analysis of Domestic Animal Remains from Dholavira to Reconstruct Their Migration/Mobility Patterns
Sharada Channarayapatna
Multi-Faceted Analysis of Shells from the Prehistoric Shell Midden Site of Bambhanka Near Dholavira, District Kachchh, Gujarat (India)
Ungka Padi
The Future of Lakshadweep Islands: Carbonate Sediment Production and Accumulation in Ongoing Climate Warming
Shradha Menon
Meeting Room M10
Panellists:
Kitty K. Emery
Nicole Fuller
Jennifer Green
Michelle LeFebvre
Suzanne Pilaar Birch
12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH & POSTERS
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? Papers Celebrating 50 Years of Archaeozoology
Plenary 1
Zooarchaeology, Open Laboratories, and Community Building
Umberto Albarella
ICAZ and Animal Paleopathology
László Bartosiewicz
Stable Isotope Analysis in Zooarchaeology: Past, Present, and Future
Trends in Archaeomalacology
Opportunities, Expectations, and Challenges Around Legacy and New Zooarchaeological Data
Sarah Whitcher Kansa
DISCUSSION
Dogs and Their People: Past Insights into the Diversity of Human-Canid Relationships
Plenary 2
Karen Greig
DISCUSSION
Meeting Room M9
Gillian Wong
Danielle Buffa
Meeting Room M10
Cloak Stories: Identifying Bunya (Possum) Skin Cloak Production on Yung Balug Country, Central Victoria by Weaving Together Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Archaeology
Amos Atkinson
Pig and Black Bear in Indigenous Stories and Practices in the American South
Heather Lapham
Ngayoo Wiliyanoo: I am the Freshwater Mussel
Emily Poelina-Hunter
Andu, Yamarti and Warratyi: A Systematic, Palaeoecological Analysis of the Late Quaternary Vertebrate Assemblage from Warratyi Rock Shelter, South Australia’s Oldest Aboriginal Site (Adnyamathanha Country, Northern Flinders Ranges)
Cate Sexton
Developing Frameworks to Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Zooarchaeology
Jillian Garvey
3:30pm - 4:00pm | AFTERNOON TEA
4:00pm - 5:20pm
Where Have We Been and Where are We Going? Papers Celebrating 50 Years of Archaeozoology
Plenary 1
Zooarchaeology and Public Engagement: Successes, Challenges and the Future
DISCUSSION
Dogs and Their People: Past Insights into the Diversity of Human-Canid Relationships
Plenary 2
DISCUSSION
Meeting Room M9
Friday 11 August 2023
9:00am - 10:00am
Plenary Session:
A Life in Zooarchaeology: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Plenary 1 & 2
10:00am - 10:30am | MORNING TEA
10:30am - 12:30pm
Plenary 1
Ancient Genome Analyses of Dogs from the Epi-Jomon and the Okhotsk Periods in the Japan Archipelago
Yohey Terai
Multidisciplinary Research on the Japanese Lynx
Takao Sato
Extinction of Endemic Deer and Increase of Wild Boar After Human Arrival on Miyako Island, Japan
Masaki Fujita
New Findings on Taphonomy of Pleistocene Extinct Deer Remains Excavated from the Shimojibaru Cave, Kume Island, Okinawa, Japan
Ryohei Sawaura
The First Faunal Record from the Great Papuan Plateau
Tiina Manne
Early Marine Resources Exploitation in the Ryukyu Islands, from 37,000 to 200 BP: From a Regional to an Asian-Pacific Perspective
Clara Boulanger
Plenary 2
Florent Rivals
Meeting Room M9
Anthropogenic Modifications of Small Mammals from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia): How Many Ways are there to Eat a Rat?
Elizabeth Veatch
A Tale of Few Kitties: Investigating Markers of Domestication and Variation in Felis Silvestris Subspecies, Using Osteological and Geometric Morphometric Methods
Sophie A. Miller
Horse Consumption in Late Bronze Age Estonia, North-Eastern Europe
Eve Rannamäe
Life on the Edge: Animal Exploitation at the Shichengzi Military Fort (Xinjiang, China)
Ningning Dong
Three Middle Bronze Age Tombs from Jericho: A Study of Mortuary Practices & Legacy Collections using Faunal Remains
Tracy King
“Cuts Like a Knife”: A Non-Destructive Cementum Seasonality Study Using the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron
Tina Greenfield
Meeting Room M10
12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH & POSTERS
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Plenary 1
Marine Resources Exploitation and Maritime Adaptation in the Southern Ryukyu During the Neolithic: A Case from Shimotabaru Shell-Mound Site on Hateruma Island
Rintaro Ono
Exploitation of Sus Scrofa Specimens in Prehistoric Ryukyu Islands
Kei Aono
Late Neolithic Fishing Strategies of Coastal Southeast China: A Case Study from the Guye Site
Chong Yu
Changing Oracle Bone Divination in East Asia: Animal Resource Dependent Technological Transmission
Jie Shen
Prehistoric Fishing and the Utilization of Aquatic Resources in Neolithic Vietnam
Fredeliza Campos
The Bilat Cave Shell Midden in Mindoro Island, Central Philippines: A Prehistoric Coastal Environment Study
Marie Grace Pamela Faylona
Plenary 2
Meeting Room M9
Challenges and Opportunities in the Integration of Zooarchaeological and Historical Data: Some Examples
Umberto Albarella
Horse Feeding Management in the Western Zhou Dynasty
Hiroki Kikuchi
Intra-Urban Animal Husbandry in Roman Sicily: Integrating Agronomic Advice and Faunal Evidence to Dissect the Rural-Urban Landscape Dichotomy
Eden Franz
Eating Horses in Medieval Hungary
László Bartosiewicz
Understanding Subsistence and Survival Along the Medieval Long Wall System of Northern China and Mongolia: A Zooarchaeological and Historical Analysis
Tikvah Steiner
Bridging the Gap: The Zooarchaeology and History of Medieval Japanese Horses
Manabu Uetsuki
Meeting Room M10
3:30pm - 4:00pm | AFTERNOON TEA
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Plenary 1
An Eco-Archaeological Analysis of Human-Mollusc Interactions During 3000 Years from Early Lapita to the Present in the Western Pacific
Carla Catterall
Not Just Red Meat: Ichthyoarchaeological Perspectives on Indus Civilisation Settlements in Gujarat, India
Abhayan Girija Sasidharan
The Fertile Coast: A New Insight into Maritime Adaptations During the Neolithic of South-East Arabia
Mark Jonathan Beech
Plenary 2
Meeting Room M9
Box Office Bears: Integrating Zooarchaeology, Ancient Biomolecules and Archives to Explore Bear Baiting in Early Modern England
Lizzie Wright
What Are These Cats Doing in a Burial at OCP Culture Site of Sinauli, District Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, India? An Osteo-Metric Approach
Vijay Sathe
Saturday 12 August 2023
8:30am - 10:00am
Plenary Panel Session:
Traditional Knowledge, Climate Change and Human Impacts: Past, Present and Future
Amos Atkinson
Shawnee Gorringe
Cassandra Rowe
Sofia Samper Carro
Jamie Tarrant
Plenary 1 & 2
10:00am - 10:30am | MORNING TEA
10:30am - 12:30pm
Plenary 1
Plenary 2
Meeting Room M9
Sarah Whitcher Kansa
Meeting Room M10
12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Underwater Bone Taphonomy
Plenary 1
How Underwater Bone Taphonomy Looks Like? Reevaluating Taphonomic Indicators in a Late Pleistocene Drowned Terrestrial Site, Chile
Isabel Cartajena
Virtual Vertebrate Taphonomy and the Fate of the Pleistocene Age Woman from Hoyo Negro, a Submerged Natural Trap in Mexico
Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales
Histotaphonomic Markers in Drowned Extinct Fauna: Insights from the GNLQ1 Bone Assemblage (Central Chile)
Sebastian Yrarrázaval
Plenary 1
Applications of Bone Histology in Tracking Exploitation Markers: From the Site of Inamgaon, Maharashtra
Prateek Chakraborty
Trace Element Analysis in the Faunal remains Recovered from Archaeological Sites of Garhwal Himalaya, India: Implications on Dietary Reconstruction
Yogambar Singh Farswan
DISCUSSION
Plenary 2
Luxury Foods, Status, and Hierarchy: The Temporal Development of Tapu-Based Food Restrictions in the Late Pre-Contact Society Island Chiefdoms
Discussant
Meeting Room M9
Interdisciplinary Considerations of Archaeological Content in High School Pedagogy
John Blank
A Review of Actualistic Butchery Studies: Past Publication Patterns and Future Research Recommendations
Briana Pobiner
Skeletal Profiles of Birds in the Archaeological Record: Disentangling Bird Locomotion from Human Activity
Nadja Pöllath
Using More Elements in Archaeological Fish Bone Identification Yields New Insights into Marine Subsistence in the Tropics
Samantha Stephens
New Quaternary Cave Sites on the Island of Malta
Mathew Stewart
Insights into Dwarf Stegodon (Stegodon florensis florensis) Palaeobiology Based on Rib Histology
Pauline Basilia
Meeting Room M10
Faunal Remains from the 1st-2nd Millennium Migdol Temple, Pella, Jordan: A Comparison of Temple and Non-Temple Contexts
Karyn Wesselingh
Animals in Domestic Ritual Landscapes in the Netherlands
Maaike Groot
The Girl and Her Pets: A Unique Tomb from the Chalcolithic Enclosure of Camino De Las Yeseras (Madrid, Spain)
Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck
Woolly Rhinoceroses and the Roots of Ritualism
Kamilla Pawłowska
A Tale of Two Tali: A Context-Based Faunal Study of the Ritual Landscape of Mycenae in the Late Bronze Age
Jacqueline Meier
Seasonality, Hunting Patterns and Life Histories of Ritual Wild Boars from Early Neolithic Asiab
Petra Vaiglova
3:30pm - 4:00pm | AFTERNOON TEA
4:00pm - 5:30pm | ICAZ General Meeting
Meeting Rooms M9 & M10
7:00pm - 11:00pm | Conference Dinner
Plenary 1 & 2
Sunday 13 August 2023
8:30am - 5:00pm
Post Conference Tour – Dreamtime Snorkel Reef Cruise