Attending the SAAs next week? If so, come check out our session on "Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice" on Friday @8:45 :)
Madison McCartin
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Anthro PhD at UC Davis 🦌🦊🦣 Paleolithic zooarchaeology - faunal analysis - taphonomy - paleoecology - personal ornaments - and more! Personal website: sites.google.com/view/madison-mccar…
![Reminder to submit an abstract for one of our 8 ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAA Meeting!
1. Standardization in Zooarchaeology (Chair: Pam CRabtree -[pc4@nyu.edu])
2. Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice (Chairs: Maddy McCartin [mjmccartin@ucdavis.edu], Erin Mooneyham, and Nikki Wu)
3. From Interactions to Management: Mutualistic Human–Animal Relationships in the Archaeological Record of the Americas (Chairs: Sarah Noe [snoe@ucsb.edu] and Daniel Damas)
4. Microfauna in Archaeological Contexts: Challenges and Methodological Considerations (Chair: Gillian E Wong [gillian.wong368@gmail.com])
5. Beyond the Osseous: Applications of Soft-Tissue Analysis in Zooarchaeology (Chairs: Morgan Hall [mvhall@ucdavis.edu] and Arianna Garvin)
6. Invertebrates in Global Archaeological Perspectives (Chairs: Isabella Hernandez [Isabella.hernandez@ucalgary.ca] and Elizabeth Paris)
7. Marine Resource Exploitation in the Preindustrial Americas: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fisheries Baselines (Chairs: Nayeli Jimenez Cano [njimenezcano@ucsd.edu] and Mariela Declet Perez)
8. Reintegrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: New Collaborations, Questions, and Methods (Chairs: R. J. Sinensky and Jonathan Dombrosky [jdombrosky@crowcanyon.org])](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g567675zyqgqdrlnz54clcp4/bafkreic4zxck3u5fksw5h6hjfdreybowwahesv5yymvkkyueoiz5waplx4)
