Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026@helenebenkert.bsky.social @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social @phoebe-liu.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Stories Written in Bone 🦴 A quick update on our buzzard. As it dried we had one of those real “wow” moments. Just look at that humerus: a transverse break, with traces of healing. Amazing attempt by the vet to repair the wing but, unfortunatelly, the bird died before it could fully heal. 051
Phoebe Liu @phoebe-liu.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Excited to share our latest paper on the use of draught cattle in prehistoric Britain🐂🐂🐂 @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social Read more: doi.org/10.1007/s125...doi.orgThe origins of animal traction in Britain: implications for technological and social developments in the Bronze Age - Archaeological and Anthropological SciencesArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Animal traction is one of the key technological innovations that drove socioeconomic transformations in prehistoric societies. However, its emergence... 041
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026On the 25th of February we celebrated the Sheffield BIOARCH RICHeS launch 🎉 with visitors from partners, our governing body and potential users. Tours of the collections 🦴🌿 and chats about research and collaborations 🤝 made the day inspiring! Here are some pictures of the event! 051
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026In the Zooarch Lab in Sheffield, we’re giving our bird skeletons a glow-up! 🦴🪶 Adding names and photos—because bones tell a story, but feathers & colors matter too. Thanks to RICHeS for helping us! Today’s focus: Accipitriformes. 2101
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Mr Badger update! 🦡✨ Fresh from his Zooarch spa day, Mr Badger is clean, preened, and almost ready to join his forever home in our reference collection. His bones tell their own story, with fractured ribs and femur, injury from a car encounter. Next up: guinea pigs.. so stay tuned! 🐹 191
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026📸 New kit alert! 📸 Thanks to RICHeS funding, we have added a new Leica camera and 3D analysis software to our Bioarchaeology collections 🙌 Perfect for archaeobotany imaging 🌾 but also incredibly valuable for zooarchaeological research, particularly for exploring taphonomic factors. 071
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Back to hands-on work after our move and reunited with a long-time freezer resident: Mr Badger 🦡 Once alive, now honoured for the contribution he’ll make to science. After a well-earned hot bath, Mr Badger will soon join our Zooarchaeology Research Collection. CW: images show a deceased animal 2102
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 12/01/2026🐎 Excited to share a new project led by friend and colleague Maaike Groot at Freie Universität Berlin: “Management, supply and mobility of equids in the northwestern Roman Empire” (DFG-funded). The project explores how horses and mules supported the Roman army. Congratulations Maaike!!! 2178
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 29/12/2025A&K n.19 spotlights the work of Pam Crabtree, one of the most influential zooarchaeologists of the past few decades 🦴 Best known for her work at West Stow, this issue highlights her lesser-known but vital research on middle Saxon sites. Enjoy! eaareports.org.uk/publication/...eaareports.org.ukMiddle Saxon Animal Husbandry in East AngliaPam Crabtree, 2012. 'Middle Saxon Animal Husbandry in East Anglia', East Anglian Archaeology 143 0104
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 09/12/2025A&K n.18! We were lucky to host Maaike Groot in Sheffield on a Marie Curie Fellowship a few years ago. A leading expert on Roman husbandry, she’s now building an outstanding zooarch lab at Freie Universität Berlin. This piece is one of several outputs from her Sheffield work doi.org/10.1515/PZ-2...doi.orgCattle husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands: chronological developments and regional differences in cattle frequencies, management, size and shapeCattle are the dominant species in most archaeological sites in the Netherlands during the Iron Age and Roman period. However, there are differences in the relative importance of cattle and in how cat... 0114
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 11/11/2025A&K n.14 We return to the Sheffield team to highlight this paper by Idoia Grau Sologestoa who completed her PhD between the University of the Basque Country and the University of Sheffield. Idoia continues to be a leading light in medieval zooarchaeology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comLivestock management in Spain from Roman to post-medieval times: a biometrical analysis of cattle, sheep/goat and pigThe aim of this paper is to present the results of the biometrical analysis carried out on cattle, sheep/goat and pig measurements from a number of Sp… 051
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 06/11/2025For A&K n.13 we would like to showcase this seminal paper on the study of colonial zooarchaeology. First author is Betsy Reitz, an absolute legend in the world of zooarchaeology, from whose work we have have all learned a lot. Paper here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comMorphometric Data for Cattle from North America and the Caribbean Prior to the 1850sAn important aspect of early colonies was the adaptive response of domestic animals to new environments. This is reflected in zooarchaeological studie… 051
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Should anybody be interested, @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social will give a seminar at the University of Cambridge on Thursday at 4pm., which can be followed online too. Details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...talks.cam.ac.uktalks.cam : Meat consumption and the shaping of a Romano-British culture 063
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Today we celebrate the work of one of our most dedicated members, Veronica Aniceti! 🎉 Her paper “Who’s Eating Pork?” has helped reshape our understanding of the pork taboo and the Islamic heritage of Sicily. Enjoy the read! 🐖📖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comWho’s eating pork? Investigating pig breeding and consumption in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman/Aragonese Sicily (7th-14th c. AD)This paper investigates the culture of pork consumption in Sicily by examining a number of archaeological faunal assemblages dated to chronological ph… 051
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025🎉 Free Open Access Days! Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project. Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇 194
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 14/10/2025#A&K Alive & Kicking helping n.10! This is an article by one of our longest members, Angelos Hadjikoumis. It is based on his PhD dissertation, undertaken in Sheffield. This is highly relevant ethnoarchaeological work. Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....sciencedirect.comTraditional pig herding practices in southwest Iberia: Questions of scale and zooarchaeological implicationsArchaeological interpretations are interwoven with analogical reasoning. This paper presents a large volume of ethnographic data on traditional pig hu… 195
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeologyyoutube.comThe destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in SheffieldYouTube video by Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab 22823
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Our own Phoebe Liu has presented a poster based on her PhD research at the conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Well done Phoebe! Photos by @snakesandbones.bsky.social. @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social @zig-saa.bsky.social @zooarch.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Phoebe LiuUmberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 11/08/2025www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... now available as open access @phoebe-liu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.socialsciencedirect.comIn search of draught cattle: An identification methodDraught cattle, used for ploughing and carting, contributed to drive social transformations in prehistoric societies by replacing or complementing hum… 0167
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025A&K #7 - This week we're moving outside of Europe to highlight this remarkable compendium of Neotropical Zooarchaeology, edited by our wonderful Argentinian colleagues Mariana Mondini, Sebastián Muñoz and Pablo Fernández link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 1157
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025A&K #5 - We've got another domestication special for you this week! This time looking at the different ways Moslems and Christians improved sheep and cattle in Southern Portugal, read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #zooarchaeologysciencedirect.comZooarchaeological evidence for Moslem and Christian improvements of sheep and cattle in PortugalThis study of osteometric variation of sheep and cattle remains from archaeological sites in southern Portugal—the part that was once ruled by the Mos… 054
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025A&K #4 - Are you intrigued by goats? Would you like to know more about their role in the British Middle Ages? Well you're in luck! This week we bring you an article from our own Lenny and Umberto which tackles why goats have been neglected in British archaeology: link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comWas the English medieval goat genuinely rare? A new morphometric approach provides the answer - Archaeological and Anthropological SciencesThere are important gaps in the historical and archaeological evidence that have, so far, precluded us from reliably assessing the role of the goat in the English Middle Ages. This, in part, is the di... 0408
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025A&K #3 - Our latest instalment discusses the introduction of the domestic horse to Ireland, using modern technology (radiocarbon measurements) to tackle an age old question - when did the horse first appear? Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @icaz-news.bsky.social 085
Phoebe Liu @phoebe-liu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Having so much fun in the Animal Palaeopathology Working Group meeting 🐮🦴 @icaz-news.bsky.social 030
Reposted by Phoebe LiuUmberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 22/03/2025oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/.../RELM/20/... It's great to see the book dedicated to our fantastic colleagues An Lentacker and Anton Ervynck, who have done so much for #zooarchaeology, published thanks to the efforts of Bea De Cupere et al. @icaz-news.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social 1104
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Apologies, it seems this link doesn't allow downloads! Get your own copy of the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kau3_glky...authors.elsevier.com 031
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025A&K #2 - A piece of work from one of our own PhD students this week. I'm sharing this again because it will only be available on open access until the end of March so get it while you can! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comSpavin in modern and archaeological cattle: Reassessing its association with traction useTo investigate the correlations of biological factors, including age, body size, and sex, with the occurrence of spavin, demonstrating that using spav… 253
Reposted by Phoebe LiuZooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 10/03/2025#1 - 'Archaeozoological Analysis of the Fortified Settlement of Sand (10th Century AD, Lower Austria)' by Konstantina Saliari This is a zooarchaeological analysis of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in Lower Austria, a fascinating site with lots of faunal remains. 182
