Zooarchaeology Symposium at CAVEPS 2015

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Jillian Garvey

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Jul 6, 2015, 1:49:27 AM7/6/15

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Dear Ozarch list,

This year’s CAVEPS conference will feature a special zooarchaeology symposium (please scroll down the page) with the keynote by Dr Richard Cosgrove. I encourage everyone interested in zooarchaeology to consider attending and/or presenting. Please contact me for further information.

Best wishes

Jillian

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You are invited to attend the 15th Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology (CAVEPS), a biennial meeting of palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists from Australia and around the world. The 2015 meeting will be held in the heart of Australia at Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

CAVEPS is a multidisciplinary forum that showcases research from all fields directed at understanding the past, present and future of Australasia’s vertebrate fauna and their environments. Fields of research include but are not necessarily limited to: vertebrate morphology, phylogeny, palaeontology, development, taphonomy, taxonomy, evolution, zooarchaeology, palaeoecology and ancient environments. As in previous meetings, we encourage neontological researchers and researchers from outside Australasia who may have a more global focus to contribute to CAVEPS 2015

The intersection of Zooarchaeology and Palaeontology Symposium:

Zooarchaeology is the study of animal remains from archaeological sites that can help inform on human-animal interactions including what species people preferred to hunt, which specific body parts they selected, and how these were butchered and processed. Vertebrate palaeontology and zooarchaeology are in many ways overlapping disciplines having common interests in various areas including taphonomy, site formation processes, seasonality and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Yet, in Australia these two disciplines have not generally shared ideas. This symposium aims to facilitate dialogue between these interrelated research areas, and encourages abstracts covering all aspects of zooarchaeology and faunal analysis.

Symposium Convenor: Jillian Garvey – j.ga...@latrobe.edu.au

Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Richard Cosgrove

Richard has researched and taught in Australian archaeology for over 30 years. He has worked in many places throughout Australia and internationally. He specialises in faunal analysis from archaeological sites and has work extensively on the humanly hunted fauna from ice age cave sites. He is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He has taught Australian Indigenous archaeology, zooarchaeology, rock art, early human evolution, archaeological methods and techniques and, directed the Neds Corner Archaeological Field School over the last 10 years. He works closely with Indigenous communities and has trained and mentored heritage officers during field work. He has been awarded 6 consecutive Australian Research Council Discovery grants, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and the Australian Academy of Sciences grants. His impressive CV also involves public outreach through engagement with television and has appeared in the SBS television documentary First Foot Prints: Australia Before Captain Cook and the BBC Channel 5 film Where We Come From.

Dr Jillian Garvey

ARC DECRA Fellow
Department of Archaeology and History

CRICOS Provider 00115M

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