Current ICAZ Working Groups

Bird Working Group—

The Bird Working Group (BWG) is an interdisciplinary consortium of researchers (archaeozoologists, archaeologists, zoologists, ornithologists) interested in the study of bird remains recovered from archaeological sites from around the world. The BWG was created by an initiative of Arturo Morales-Muniz in 1991.

The primary focus of this ICAZ Working Group is to examine the relationships between people and birds in prehistoric, historic, and, at times, contemporary contexts. Group interests include, but are not limited to, identification of bird bones, the taphonomy of avian remains, methods of analysis and interpretation, the use of birds, and representations of birds in art.

For further information about this working group, contact the BWG Liaison to ICAZ, Luminita Bejenaru (lumib@uaic.ro).

BWG Meetings

1. Madrid, Spain (organized by Arturo Morales), October 1991
2. Southamphon, UK (organized by Dale Serjeantson), September 1995
3. Victoria, BC, Canada (organized by Rebecca Wigen), August 1998
4. Krakow, Poland (organized by Zbigniew M. Bochenski, Zygmunt Bochenski, Alicja Lasota-Moskalewska, and Teresa Tomek), September 2001
5. Münich, Germany (organized by Joris Peters, Gisela Grupe and Angela von den Driesch), July 2004
6. Groningen, Netherlands (organized by Wietske Prummel, Jørn Zeiler and Dick Brinkhuizen, August 2008

The 7th BWG meeting will be held August 27—September 01, 2012, at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. There will be three days of presentations plus two trips— the first of one day to ornithological and historical sites situated in North-Eastern Romania, and the second of two days to the Danube Delta. The call for papers and subscription form are posted in BoneCommons at the following links: Call for Papers, Subscription Form. They are also available here: http://www.bio.uaic.ro. The deadline is the 31st of May, 2012. For more information about the conference, contact: Luminita Bejenaru, E-mail: lumib@uaic.ro

BWG Publications

1st Meeting: Archaeofauna 2 (1992),

2nd Meeting: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 7(4) (1997),

4th Meeting: Acta zoological cracoviensia 45(special issue) (2002) (http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc_v/azcv45.htm)

5th Meeting: Feathers, Grit and Symbolism: Birds and Humans in the Old and New Worlds edited by G. Grupe and J. Peters (2005). Documenta Archaeobiologiae 3. Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, Rahden/Westfalen.
(http://www.vml.de/e/detail.php?ISBN=3-89646-618-6&hl=documenta)

Birds in Archaeology: Proceedings of the 6th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group in Groningen (23.8 - 27.8.2008) edited by W. Prummel, J.T. Zeiler and D.C. Brinkhuizen (2010). /Groningen Archaeological Studies/ 12. Barkhuis Publishing/Groningen University Library, Groningen. http://www.barkhuis.nl/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=115

This information has been contributed by by Luminita Bejenaru, BWG Liaison to ICAZ, on October 1, 2010.