Exploring the Intersections between Humans and Animals through Zooarchaeology

Dear Colleagues,

The combination of anthropological, archaeological, biological, ecological, and paleontological research focused on animal remains is a defining characteristic of the zooarchaeology. Zooarchaeological interpretations are based on the premise that there is a systemic relationship between humans and their environment, especially between humans and other animal populations, and that many cultural and biological aspects of this relationship are reflected in the archaeological record. Through the study of bone and dental remains, preserved soft tissues, shells, scales, feathers, and subfossils, zooarchaeologists contribute important information to studies of past environments, relationships between humans, those environments, and the animal populations that lived in them, and the lives of people in the past.

This Special Issue aims to present the most recent advances in the knowledge of the long-standing and complex relationships between past peoples and animals, focusing on themes ranging from taphonomy, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, human-subsistence economies, and the roles that animals played in human cultures. Papers related to palaeopathological conditions and taphonomic processes affecting zooarchaeological assemblages are also welcome.

Dr. Joan Viciano
Guest Editor

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• zooarchaeology/archaeozoology
• human–animal interaction
• osteoarchaeology
• archaeology
• palaeo-pathology
• zoonosis
• bone and dental remains
• taphonomy
• subsistence
• palaeoenvironment
• cultural and biological aspects
• past populations