Madison McCartin
@upaleolithic.bsky.social
Anthro PhD at UC Davis 🦌🦊🦣
Paleolithic zooarchaeology - faunal analysis - taphonomy - paleoecology - personal ornaments - and more!
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/madison-mccartin/home
Paleolithic zooarchaeology - faunal analysis - taphonomy - paleoecology - personal ornaments - and more!
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/madison-mccartin/home
Preliminary report on the Upper Paleolithic fauna of Tolbor-17 (Mongolia) is out now :D
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September 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Preliminary report on the Upper Paleolithic fauna of Tolbor-17 (Mongolia) is out now :D
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Last chance to submit your abstract for our session on challenges in zooarchaeology! We will consider submissions until ~August 20th :)
Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research?
If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!
The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...
If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!
The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...
August 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Last chance to submit your abstract for our session on challenges in zooarchaeology! We will consider submissions until ~August 20th :)
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Reminder to submit an abstract for one of the nine (!) ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAAs!
August 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reminder to submit an abstract for one of the nine (!) ZIG-sponsored sessions at the 2026 SAAs!
Reminder to submit an abstract for a @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session at the 2026 SAA meeting in San Francisco! Abstracts can be found on ZIG's facebook page (www.facebook.com/share/g/14Gc...)
![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@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reminder to submit an abstract for a @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session at the 2026 SAA meeting in San Francisco! Abstracts can be found on ZIG's facebook page (www.facebook.com/share/g/14Gc...)
Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research?
If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!
The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...
If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!
The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...
July 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Have you or someone you know experienced challenges while conducting zooarchaeological research?
If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!
The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...
If yes, consider submitting an abstract to our @zig-saa.bsky.social sponsored session on challenges in zooarchaeology!
The full abstract can be found in our submission form: forms.gle/r9Keapbm9PFS...
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📢🚨 REMINDER: The SAA's Zooarchaeology Interest Group journal club is next week (Jan 24 @ 12pm mountain time)! Gillian Wong will host and discuss a recent article she co-authored: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja.... Contact Gillian ([email protected]) if you need access to the article!
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January 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
📢🚨 REMINDER: The SAA's Zooarchaeology Interest Group journal club is next week (Jan 24 @ 12pm mountain time)! Gillian Wong will host and discuss a recent article she co-authored: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja.... Contact Gillian ([email protected]) if you need access to the article!
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🧪My first byline of the year is one very near and dear to me. I spent more than a year working on this, including two reporting trips to Boulder, and I'm so happy to see it out in the world.
Better care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoples
New recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal bones, pelts and other remains
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January 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🧪My first byline of the year is one very near and dear to me. I spent more than a year working on this, including two reporting trips to Boulder, and I'm so happy to see it out in the world.
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🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺
November 19, 2024 at 11:19 AM
🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺
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In tomorrow’s #Palaeolunch we’ll be discussing the following paper:
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺
Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering Neanderthal aesthetic capacity - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
An aesthetic sense—a taste for the creation and/or appreciation of that which strikes one as, e.g., attractive or awesome—is often assumed to be a distinctively H. sapiens phenomenon. However, recent ...
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November 11, 2024 at 8:02 AM
In tomorrow’s #Palaeolunch we’ll be discussing the following paper:
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺
Meneganzin, A. and Killin, A., 2024. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering #Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Be great to know what any of you who have read think of it afterwards. 🏺
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This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
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Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 12, 2024 at 5:46 PM
This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives
@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...