Researching Human-Animal-Environment dynamics to understand the past and contextualise the present. University of Exeter, Archaeology @UofEArchaeology
Exeter, England
Joined November 2018
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Our ancient dog research is getting some good coverage in the news...
bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d7j…
Just out in the journal Science, Carly Ameen and colleagues show that there was extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices. #dogs #Archaeology
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Check out the website of our @ahrcpress and @dfg_public "Pastoralists Lost" project, involving Alan Outram, Alex Pryor and Elena Sandoval in Exeter and Cheryl Makarewicz in Kiel. #prehistory #kazakhstan #pastoralism #Horses
pastlost.webnode.page/
Did cult sacrifices in ancient Egypt give rise to the cat? #Cats #Archaeology science.org/content/article/…
Post-doc position advertised for AHRC/DFG research project 'Pastoralists Lost'. Involves zooarchaeology and isotopes in Kazakhstan to understand early domestic horses and pastoralism in the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. Details in link:
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webre…
Last night, Alan Outram presented his work on horse domestication and Botai in the archaeology seminar series at Masaryk University, Brno.
Yay! Naomi Sykes and team have been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk 2024 Archaeological Achievement Awards in the 'Archaeology and Sustainability' category for their 'Fair Game' project.
Shortlist is here:
archaeologyuk.org/resource/a…
The @ahrcpress funded Fair Game project aims to foster biocultural heritage and food security through better deer management and sustainable use of venison through a 'Virtuous Venison' brand.
More here:
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
Yay! Naomi Sykes and team have been shortlisted for the @archaeologyuk 2024 Archaeological Achievement Awards in the 'Archaeology and Sustainability' category for their 'Fair Game' project.
More about the awards here: archaeologyuk.org/our-work/a…
The @ahrcpress funded Fair Game project aims to foster biocultural heritage and food security through better deer management and sustainable use of venison through a 'Virtuous Venison' brand.
More here:
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH…
Our very own Jess Peto is quoted in this Guardian article about her work on what might be the last known wolf in Britain.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
This new paper provides strong genetic evidence for an earlier phase of domestication at Botai, in line with previous evidence for corralling, milking etc.
For further archaeological context to the multi-stage process of horse domestication see:
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Our zooarch team in action recording Neolithic horse bones in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. How will they compare to those associated with likely horse herding sites in the following Eneolithic phases?
Our new paper examines the fallow deer's long history of human-mediated translocations and extinctions. Taking it from the Balkans to Britain, Barbados and beyond! @UofEArchaeology @UoNArch @DurBiol @BritGeoSurvey
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
Check out the new open access photographic atlas of European freshwater fish bones by our joint student with Bristol, Izzy Davis...
doi.org/10.1002/oa.3284
Alan's latest paper: Horse domestication as a multi-centered, multi-stage process: Botai and the role of specialized Eneolithic horse pastoralism in the development of human-equine relationships frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Alan Outram is with master's student Allison and undergraduate Ruan in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, studying a key Eneolithic early horse domestication faunal assemblage with Viktor Merz at Toraighyrov University.
On Wednesday 8th March, Alan Outram will be presenting the Annual joint lecture of the Prehistoric Society and Devon Archaeological Society on "Horse domestication as a two-stage process: the latest archaeological and palaeogenomic evidence"
prehistoricsociety.org/event…