April M. Beisaw
@aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social
Anthropology professor @Vassar College. Fulbrighter @Natural History Museum Vienna. The Archaeology of American Protests (2025), Taking Our Water for the City: Archaeology of NYC Watershed Communities (2022), Identifying & Interpreting Animal Bones (2013).
Strange pathology on a domestic pig tibia from an archaeological site #zooarchaeology
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Strange pathology on a domestic pig tibia from an archaeological site #zooarchaeology
Mandible of a domestic breed of pig (pot belly). Humans can significantly alter the biology of other species. #zooarchaeology
June 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Mandible of a domestic breed of pig (pot belly). Humans can significantly alter the biology of other species. #zooarchaeology
The mandible of a wild pig followed by that of a domestic breed #zooarchaeology
June 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The mandible of a wild pig followed by that of a domestic breed #zooarchaeology
Today’s “strange bones from the Bronze Age” is a distal pig femur with a very symmetrical hole drilled into it but not all the way through the spongy bone. Occurs on only 1 of 5 distal femurs from this site and have not seen it on pigs from other sites in region. #zooarchaeology
May 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today’s “strange bones from the Bronze Age” is a distal pig femur with a very symmetrical hole drilled into it but not all the way through the spongy bone. Occurs on only 1 of 5 distal femurs from this site and have not seen it on pigs from other sites in region. #zooarchaeology
Juvenile lower 3rd molar of a Bronze Age domestic pig looks like a mountain landscape. #zooarchaeology
April 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Juvenile lower 3rd molar of a Bronze Age domestic pig looks like a mountain landscape. #zooarchaeology