Current ICAZ Working Groups

Neotropical Zooarchaeology Working Group—

A number of particularities that characterize the Neotropics—the biogeographic region ranging from southern North America to southern South America and adjacent islands—are relevant to understanding the diversity and evolution of human-animal interactions through time, as well as the resulting archaeofaunal record. The mission of the newly formed ICAZ Neotropical Zooarchaeology Working Group (NZWG) is to offer a forum where people from any country can discuss these research problems.

The NZWG first met at the ICAZ 2010 International Conference in Paris, France, and the First Academic Meeting will be held on June 1st, 2012, in Santiago de Chile. It will be a one-day workhsop on the issue: Towards a zooarchaeology of the Neotropics. Please check the NZWG site or contact the Organisers for more information: Pablo M. Fernández, (pfernand@retina.ar), Mariana Mondini (mmondini@filo.uba.ar), A. Sebastián Muñoz (amunoz@filo.uba.ar), and Isabel Cartajena (icartaje@uchile.cl).

Also, a bibliographic database is being generated on zooarchaeological and taphonomic research in Neotropical regions. All contributions are very welcome. Please check the NZWG site to see the continually updated list of publications and to access copies of many of them, as well as to contribute your own.

A Newsletter is being issued twice a year with these and other news. You can find them at the NZWG site.

All interested researchers are invited to participate and/or to join the NZWG. For more information, please check the NZWG site: http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/exhibits/show/nzwg, or contact any of the NZWG Coordinators: Pablo M. Fernández, (pfernand@retina.ar), Mariana Mondini (mmondini@filo.uba.ar), and A. Sebastián Muñoz (amunoz@filo.uba.ar).

This information was contributed by Mariana Mondini on October 21, 2011.