Current ICAZ Working Groups

Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia Working Group—

The Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA[AA]) Working Group was formed during the 1990 ICAZ International Conference in Washington D.C. Its purpose is to promote communication between individuals working on faunal remains from sites in western Asia and adjacent areas (e.g., northeast Africa, eastern Europe, central Asia, and south Asia). It carries out its mandate by sponsoring biennial international conferences.

The ASWA e-mail list that has been in operation for several years has recently been shut down because the server became infected with virus. List members are encouraged to register with ZOOARCH (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/zooarch.html) whose moderators have kindly agreed to also distribute information on Near Eastern archaeozoology.

ASWA Working Group Meetings:

1. Groningen, The Netherlands (organized by Hijlke Buitenhuis and A.T. Clason), June 1992
2. Tübingen, Germany (organized by Hans-Peter and Margarethe Uerpmann), September 1994
3. Budapest, Hungary (organized by Laszlo Bartosiewicz and Alice Choyke), September 1996
4. Paris, France (organized by Marjan Mashkour), June 1998
5. Amman, Jordan (organized by Abdel Halim al-Shiyab), April 2000.
6. London, England (organized by Louise Martin), August/September 2002.
7. Ankara, Turkey (organized by Vicky Ioannidou and Hijlke Buitenhuis), June 2004
8. Lyons, France (organized by Lionel Gourichon and Emmanuelle Vila), June 2006
9. Al Ain, Abu Dhabi emirate, United Arab Emirates (organized by Marjan Mashkour and Mark Beech), November 2008
10. The 10th international meeting of the ASWA-working group was held in Brussels, from June 28 to June 30, 2011, at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Brussels – Belgium. Following the meeting, a workshop on 'Animal exploitation in Neolithic Central and Western Anatolia' took place on July 1. For more details, please have a look at the conference website.

ASWA Working Group Publications:

Archaeozoology of the Near East edited by H. Buitenhuis and A.T. Clason (1993). Universal Book Services/Dr. W. Backhuys, Leiden.

Archaeozoology of the Near East II edited by H. Buitenhuis and H.-P. Uerpmann (1995). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Archaeozoology of the Near East III edited by H. Buitenhuis, L. Bartosiewicz, and A.M. Choyke (1998). ARC Publication 18. Archeological Research and Consultancy, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Archaeozoology of the Near East IV edited by M. Mashkour, H. Buitenhuis, A.M. Choyke, and F. Poplin (2000). ARC Publication 32. Archeological Research and Consultancy, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Archaeozoology of the Near East V edited by H. Buitenhuis, A.M. Choyke, M. Mashkour, and A.H. Al-Shiyab (2002). ARC Publication 62. Archeological Research and Consultancy, Groningen, The Netherlands.

This information has been contributed by Richard H. Meadow and László Bartosiewicz. ASWA's Official Liaison to ICAZ is Hijlke Buithenuis.