Based on the success of the 2006 competition, a new Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition is planned for the upcoming ICAZ conference in Paris, August 2010. Visit the announcement in BoneCommons for details on how to participate.

Results of 2006 Open Zooarchaeology Prize

 

The first ever Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition was held at the ICAZ International Conference in Mexico City, August 2006. The competition received eleven entries. We commend each of these eleven junior scholars for their outstanding contributions to open educational resources. Five judges have reviewed all eleven entries and have determined the following winners, based on the papers' scholarly merits and their potential for reuse in research or teaching. Thanks to all contenders for participating!

 

Many thanks to the panel of five judges for taking the time to carefully review all eleven entries and to provide insightful commentary along with their selections.

2006 Judges:
Laszlo Bartosiewicz	University of Budapest; ICAZ President
Luis Alberto Borrero	Departmento de Investigaciones Prehistóricas y Arqueológicas, Buenos Aires; ICAZ Vice-President
Pam Crabtree	New York University; ICAZ Treasurer
Christine Lefevre	Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
Justin Lev-Tov	University of Mainz

 

 

1st Place

(Prize: $500)

Christian Gates St-Pierre, for his paper "Faunal Remains as Markers of Ethnicity: A Case Study from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada"

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Judging Comments:

"The difference between two sets of sites...are elegantly demonstrated in the accompanying graphic material and thus the text and images together make for a nice package both for education and further research."

"[Gates presents] a concrete and simple discussion of a very difficult subject... puts into full use both archaeological and historical data."

"The demonstration of the role of faunal remains as markers of ethnicity is quite remarkable, and could be easily reused as teaching material."

About the Winner: Christian Gates St-Pierre completed both his MA and PhD in anthropology at the University of Montreal, in 1995 and 2003, respectively. His MA research focused on faunal remains of an Late Woodland Iroquoian village, while his PhD dissertation was about Middle Woodland ceramics in the Northeast. He subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003-2004, focusing on use-wear analysis of iroquoian bone tools. He is currently a senior archaeologist with a Montreal-based company called Ethnoscop inc., and also works for the City of Montreal as a curator for the prehistoric (i.e. Native) collections own by the city (something quite unique for a North American city). His research interests include Maritime adaptations and ethnicity in archaeology. He has published on these various subjects in both French and English academic journals.

 

Runner Up

(Prize: A $100 Gift Certificate from the David Brown Book Co.)

Ana Belen Marin Arroyo for her paper "Economic Subsistence of the Hunter-Gatherer Groups in El Miron Cave (Northern Spain) During the Upper Pliestocene"

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Judging Comments:

"[Marin Arroyo's contribution provides] exemplary educational material."

"The paper is well structured with clear illustrations, and the presentation is well supported by the figures...Several images have significant value in reuse."

"...an informed discussion of prehistoric subsistence."

About the Winner: Ana Belen Marin Arroyo received her undergraduate degree in History at the University of Cantabria in 2001. She began zooarchaeological studies with Dr. van Kolfschoten in University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and currently continues her training with Dr. Jordi Estévez at Autonoma University of Barcelona. She received her M.A. in 2003 at the University of Cantabria, with research focused on the zooarchaeozoological, taphonomical and spatial distribution analysis of La Fragua Cave in Cantabria, in the north Cantabrian coast in Spain. Although it was a small cave with faunal remains from the Magdalenian to the Calcolithic period, there were interesting results, which were published by Ediciones TGD (Santander) in 2004. She is currently working at the University of the Basque Country where she is completing her PhD on the macromammalian fauna in the Oriental Coast of Cantabrian in Spain during the Magdalenian period. This work is mainly focused in the faunal assemblage of El Mirón Cave and its comparison with other Cantabrian and Basque archaeological sites. She is also the coordinator of a project to recognize the presence of bearded vulture in Cantabrian prehistoric times, which is funded by the Cantabria Government. Her main research interests are Zooarchaeology, Taphonomy and Hunter-Gatherers (paleoeconomic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions). She has spent time at some of the most recognized laboratories and museums in Europe, including MNHN and IPH in Paris, University College and NHM in London, the University of Toulouse Le Mirail, and the University of Valencia or Aranzadi Society of Sciences in San Sebastian (Spain), among others. She has published articles in some of the specialized journals in the Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula as Munibe or Complutum. Her research has been funded with a fellowship from the Educational Department of the Basque Government of Spain. She can be contacted by e-mail at: ana_b_marin@hotmail.com

 

2006 Contest Entries

The table below lists all eleven entries to the contest, in alphabetical order by author. To view them, click on the "Paper Text" and "Images" links following each title.

PROPER ATTRIBUTION: All of these papers are licensed with Creative Commons licenses in order to both protect the authors and maximize reuse. If you use content from one of these papers, the citation format we suggest is as follows:

Author Name. "Paper Title" (Date released, if available). BoneCommons. Accessed: (Access date). <Item's url>.

 

Author Name	Paper Title
Esteban Alvarez-Fernandez	"Atlantic versus Mediterranean": Personal Ornaments Made from Mollusc Shells in Europe During the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 1950 File Size 142 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 650 File Size 4481 KB
Diana Carvajal, Richard Cooke and Maximo Jimenez	Taphonomy and Fishing at Two Contiguous Coastal Rockshelters in Panama
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 1100 File Size 52 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 707 File Size 2921 KB
Christian Gates	Faunal Remains as Markers of Ethnicity: A Case Study from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada
(1st Place)	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 1628 File Size 201 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 797 File Size 1213 KB
Christine Giovas and Michelle LeFebvre	My Island, Your Island, Our Islands: Considerations for Island Archaeozoology as a Disciplinary Community
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 1110 File Size 100 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 466 File Size 789 KB
Yekaterina Krivogorskaya	Heads or Tails: The analysis of fish bone remains from NW Iceland
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 905 File Size 37 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 891 File Size 2768 KB
Ana Belen Marin Arroyo	Economic Subsistence of the Hunter-Gatherer Groups in El Miron Cave (Northern Spain) During the Upper Pliestocene
(2nd Place)	Paper Text / Images Total Number of Downloads 1038 File Size 3396 KB
Federica Moreno and Ester Verdun	La Composicion de la Dieta de las Sociedades Mariscadoras: Se Puede Hablar de Recursos Complementarios y Recursos Principales?
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 3691 File Size 94 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 501 File Size 11145 KB
Kirsty Murphy	She Drills Seashells on the Seashore
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 834 File Size 68 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 595 File Size 4931 KB
Juan Rofes and Glora Cuenca-Bescos	The Early to Middle Pleistocene Atapuerca Caves and their Vertebrates
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 1535 File Size 44 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 944 File Size 3964 KB
Vivian Scheinsohn and Marcela Lucero	Bone Raw Material Exploitation at the South of South America: The Cerro Casa de Piedra Locality
	Paper Text Total Number of Downloads 1716 File Size 0 KB	Images Total Number of Downloads 731 File Size 4036 KB
Krish Seetah	The Importance of Cut Placement and Implement Signatures to Butchery Interpretation
	Paper Text / Images Total Number of Downloads 1579 File Size 2344 KB