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Madison McCartin
@upaleolithic.bsky.social
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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
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Preliminary report on the Upper Paleolithic fauna of Tolbor-17 (Mongolia) is out now :D

mongoliajol.info/index.php/SA...
September 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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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])
July 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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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...
Poster entitled Fantastic Beasts and How to Resolve Them: Navigating Difficult Assemblages and Other Challenges in Zooarchaeological Practice. Interested in participating? Contact us (Madison McCartin, Erin Mooneyham, Nikki Wu) at mjmccartin@ucdavis.edu and submit your abstract via our google form.
July 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM