Want to know what we are up to? Here you can find an overview of our latest news and announcements.
Training in Tübingen: A Deeper Look into Taphonomy
As part of the COEXIST project, Anna Wagner (PhD student) spent a week in Tübingen with her co-supervisor, PD Dr Britt M. Starkovich, Curator and Senior Researcher in Zooarchaeology at…Read More >
Sampling Trip to Erlangen: Investigating late Neanderthal Sites
In March, Karen Ruebens (PI of COEXIST) and Anna Wagner (PhD student) travelled to Erlangen to sample faunal material from two significant late Neanderthal sites: Sesselfelsgrotte and Schulerloch. This work…Read More >
Radiocarbon dating at the University of Bristol
After receiving seven selected bone fragments from Romania, I took the samples to the University of Bristol where my co-supervisor, Dr. Helen Fewlass, was able to host me in their…Read More >
IZAZ Workshop 2024
The 2nd “Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology” (IZAZ) workshop was held at the Collège de France in Paris from 19 to 21 November 2024. The workshop, organised by Aurélie Artizzu (Université…Read More >
ZooMS/Zooarch Special Issue
Special Issue published! Our special issue on integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology has been published, fully open access in the online journal PaleoAnthropology! It features an extensive introduction written by Geoff…Read More >
COEXIST sampling trip to Romania
In October Geoff (Senior Zooarchaeologist on COEXIST) travelled to Romania to assess the potential of faunal collections stored at the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archeology (Bucharest) and the Museum of…Read More >
We are recruiting!
We are currently hiring two PhD students to join our lab in Reading autumn 2024. We are looking for a zooarchaeologist to join us for the project: Unravelling the subsistence…Read More >
Project launch
We are off! We are excited to announce that we have started our new project, COEXIST, at the University of Reading March 1st 2024. The project received funding as an…Read More >
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