Current Zooarchaeology: New and Ongoing Approaches

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Current Zooarchaeology: New and Ongoing Approaches" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Zooarchaeology is a dynamic and diverse field in which many disparate approaches are used to understand human interaction with nonhuman animals. In this new era of research and education, many approaches of the past continue to hold merit while new approaches emerge with greater and greater frequency. This poster session, sponsored by the Zooarchaeology Interest Group, engages with this diversity by presenting posters with wide-ranging foci. Presenters discuss the approaches that they are currently using to address zooarchaeological problems and to disseminate zooarchaeological data. Posters range from pilot studies, field methods, analytical methods, and reports on the analysis of individual faunal assemblages to pan-regional syntheses of extant data, discussions of zooarchaeology’s contributions to modern species conservation and management, and methods for engaging with and presenting zooarchaeological data. This includes strategies for teaching zooarchaeology in this new era of education. The goal of this poster session is to spark discussion about the myriad approaches employed in zooarchaeology today and the benefits of these approaches.