Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from CRM and Other Nonacademic Spaces

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from CRM and Other Nonacademic Spaces" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Modern zooarchaeology straddles the line between the academic and non-academic worlds with significant work being done by professionals working in both areas. Despite increased interest in the specialty from both academic and non-academic archaeologists, there still exists a gap between the two worlds. By highlighting work completed in non-academic spaces alongside work that is strictly academic, we can begin to close this gap by building working relationships between academic and non-academic zooarchaeologists. A companion to the Beyond Academia forum from the 2024 annual meeting, this symposium highlights zooarchaeological work that is completed in CRM and other non-academic spaces. Through case studies and data analytics, the goal of this symposium is to illustrate the significance of zooachaeological data outside of the academic institution.

Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology • Cultural Resource Management • Subsistence and Foodways • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management

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  • Beyond (and including) academia in zooarchaeological research in Britain: the ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anwen Cooper.

    This is an abstract from the "Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from CRM and Other Nonacademic Spaces" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ‘Rewilding’ later prehistory project has set a developer-funded fieldwork organisation – Oxford Archaeology – and the wider developer-funded industry centre stage of exciting cross-sector multidisciplinary research with environmental archaeology colleagues from academia, Historic England, and...

  • A Decade in Bones: One Career and the Realities of Zooarchaeology in CRM (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefanie Perez.

    This is an abstract from the "Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from CRM and Other Nonacademic Spaces" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zooarchaeologists working in Cultural Resource Management are often tasked with dual roles to be considered full-time employees. Specialized analysis such as those completed by zooarchaeologists are not always a regular part of a project’s scope. This may be due to time or budgetary constraints but...

  • Inadvertent: Struggles and Opportunities of a Plateau Zooarchaeological Analysis (45FR19), Franklin County, Washington, USA (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Hopt.

    This is an abstract from the "Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from CRM and Other Nonacademic Spaces" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological excavation and analysis have increasingly moved from a purely academic realm to one that is largely done by the private sector. Zooarchaeological analyses are likewise being increasingly done by private cultural resource management (CRM) companies. This presents opportunities for more...

  • Reconstructing the life-history of salmon from seven archaeological sites along the Feather River, Butte County, California – a multi-collaborative approach. (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Eubanks.

    This is an abstract from the "Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from CRM and Other Nonacademic Spaces" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Far Western Anthropological Research Group Inc., worked on a project to mitigate the effects of levee improvements along a seven-mile stretch of the lower Feather River in Butte County, California, which resulted in the excavation of seven Native Maidu village sites. Careful excavation of these sites,...

  • Zooarchaeological Insights into Early Caddo and Late Woodland Subsistence along Bois d’Arc Creek, Northeast Texas (2025)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Breslawski.

    This is an abstract from the "Beyond Academia: Zooarchaeological Case Studies from CRM and Other Nonacademic Spaces" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 2019 and 2021, AR Consultants, Inc. excavated six sites in the Bois d’Arc Creek watershed, yielding abundant evidence for residential occupations spanning the prehistoric Woodland and Caddo periods. Archaeofaunal analyses for three sites are now complete, with the fourth underway. This area of...