18TH BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ARCHAEOZOOLOGY - FISH REMAINS WORKING GROUP

From 28 Sep 2015 until 03 Oct 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal

The 18th biennial meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology - Fish Remains Working Group (ICAZ-FRWG), hosted by the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage - Archaeosciences Laboratory (DGPC - LARC) and the Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources – Environmental Archaeology Research Group (CIBIO-InBIO - ENVARCH), will take place at the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (SGL) - Secção de Arqueologia, from September 28 to October 3, 2015.

This conference, aimed primarily at those with a professional interest in the systematic analysis of fish bones retrieved from archaeological sites around the world (including archaeozoologists, archaeologists, ichthyologists, historians, ethnographers, fishery biologists, and others for whom this field may be of interest), will focus on the following topics:
• Fishing cultures of the world;
• Patterns of fish consumption;
• Human impact on fish diversity;
• Interdisciplinary study of past coastal and riverine ecosystems;
• Fish as paleoclimatological and paleoenvironmental proxies;
• Taxonomy and palaeogenetic analyses;
• Osteometry.

For further information about this event, please visit the conference’s official website.