4th Nordic Zooarchaeology Meeting will take place this week at LUX. It is an opportunity for active zooarchaeologists from the Nordic countries to gather and discuss the subject. This year osteologists at the department organize it together with Arkeologerna. The lectures are open to staff and students at the department.
Friday 21 October – LUX, Lund University (room C121)
9.30 – 10.00 Coffee, registration
10.00 – 10.15 Introduction
10.15 – 12.00 Session 1 – Zooarchaeology of the Early Modern Period
10.15 – 10.45 Aaron Stutz, Bohusläns museum: Home on the Farm in Nya
Lödöse (Gothenburg municipality, Sweden): “Human Residents
and Cattle in an Early Modern Town”
10.45 – 11.15 Emma Maltin, Dept. of Archaeology and Classical Studies,
Stockholm University & Håkan Jakobsson, Dept. of Media Studies
and Fashion Studies, Stockholm University: “The introduction of
turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo f. domestica) in Early Modern
Sweden”
11.15 – 11.45 Hanna Kivikero, Dept. of Philosophy, History & Art Studies,
University of Helsinki: “The tradie of water birds in the Baltic Sea
area during the Early Modern Period”
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 14.45 Session 2 – Zooarchaeology of the Middle Ages and Iron Age
13.00 – 13.30 Tina Bayrampour, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden
University/Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies,
Aarhus University: “Viking wildfowling: Some recent avifauna
results from the Viking Age assemblage from the Northern
Emporium excavation in Ribe, Denmark”
13.30 – 14.00 Elisabeth Iregren, Kristina Jennbert & Ola Magnell, Dept. Of
Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University/Arkeologerna,
Statens Historiska Museer: “Breeding, feeding and mobility among
dogs in the elite in the 8th century. Analysis of dogs in a burial at
Nabberör, Öland”
14.00 – 14.30 Felicia Hellgren, Arkeologerna, Statens historiska museer: “Wolf
and man during the Middle Ages in Enköping”
14.30 – 15.00 Markku Niskanen, Research Unit of History, Culture and
Communications, University of Oulu: “New methods to estimate
body size, conformation and athletic ability of archaeological horses
from skeletal dimensions”
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30 Session 3 – New approaches in Zooarchaeology: Biomolecular
analysis, metabarcoding and Big data
15.30 – 16.00 Jelena Bulatović, Dept. of Historical Studies, University of
Gothenburg: From correlations to explanations: toward a new
European prehistory – COREX’s zooarchaeological database
16.00 – 16.30 Erika Rosengren, Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund
University: Molecular zooarchaeology – the use of biomolecular
approaches in the study of prey choice
16.30 – 17.00 Samuel J. Walker, Aurélie Boilard, Liselotte M. Takken
Beijersbergen, Trond Lødøen, Stein-Erik Lauritzen, Sanne
Boessenkool, University of Bergen/University of Oslo:
Reconstructing Late Glacial fauna in northern Norway using
zooarchaeology and bulk-bone metabarcoding
Saturday 22 October – LUX, Lund University (room C121)
10.00 – 12.00 Session 4 – Zooarchaeology of the Stone Age
10.00 – 10.30 Jacob Kveiborg & Kenneth Ritchie, Archaeological Science and
Conservation, Moesgaard Museum: “Ginnerup revisited. New
excavations and preliminary results from a key Neolithic site on
Djursland, Denmark”
10.30 – 11.00 Aija Macāne, Kristiina Mannermaa, Aimée Little, Dept. of Cultures,
University of Helsinki/Dept. of Archaeology, University of York:
“Out of the jaw: experimental work on animal teeth extraction from
mandibles for pendant production”
11.00 – 11.30 Adam Boethius, Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund
University: “Untangling Scandinavian Stone Age hunter-gathererfisher
mobility patterns”
11.30 – 12.00 Pernille Bangsgaard, Globe Institute, Copenhagen University: “A
Preboreal faunal collection from Fredbogaard II, Denmark”
12.00 – 13.15 Lunch break
13.15 – 14.45 Concluding discussion