Phoebe Liu
@phoebe-liu.bsky.social
PhD student @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social🐮🦴🎾 https://phoebewcl.wordpress.com/
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Back to hands-on work after our move and reunited with a long-time freezer resident: Mr Badger 🦡
Once alive, now honoured for the contribution he’ll make to science. After a well-earned hot bath, Mr Badger will soon join our Zooarchaeology Research Collection.
CW: images show a deceased animal
Once alive, now honoured for the contribution he’ll make to science. After a well-earned hot bath, Mr Badger will soon join our Zooarchaeology Research Collection.
CW: images show a deceased animal
January 22, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Back to hands-on work after our move and reunited with a long-time freezer resident: Mr Badger 🦡
Once alive, now honoured for the contribution he’ll make to science. After a well-earned hot bath, Mr Badger will soon join our Zooarchaeology Research Collection.
CW: images show a deceased animal
Once alive, now honoured for the contribution he’ll make to science. After a well-earned hot bath, Mr Badger will soon join our Zooarchaeology Research Collection.
CW: images show a deceased animal
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🐎 Excited to share a new project led by friend and colleague Maaike Groot at Freie Universität Berlin: “Management, supply and mobility of equids in the northwestern Roman Empire” (DFG-funded).
The project explores how horses and mules supported the Roman army.
Congratulations Maaike!!!
The project explores how horses and mules supported the Roman army.
Congratulations Maaike!!!
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
🐎 Excited to share a new project led by friend and colleague Maaike Groot at Freie Universität Berlin: “Management, supply and mobility of equids in the northwestern Roman Empire” (DFG-funded).
The project explores how horses and mules supported the Roman army.
Congratulations Maaike!!!
The project explores how horses and mules supported the Roman army.
Congratulations Maaike!!!
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A&K n.19 spotlights the work of Pam Crabtree, one of the most influential zooarchaeologists of the past few decades 🦴
Best known for her work at West Stow, this issue highlights her lesser-known but vital research on middle Saxon sites. Enjoy! eaareports.org.uk/publication/...
Best known for her work at West Stow, this issue highlights her lesser-known but vital research on middle Saxon sites. Enjoy! eaareports.org.uk/publication/...
Middle Saxon Animal Husbandry in East Anglia
Pam Crabtree, 2012. 'Middle Saxon Animal Husbandry in East Anglia', East Anglian Archaeology 143
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December 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A&K n.19 spotlights the work of Pam Crabtree, one of the most influential zooarchaeologists of the past few decades 🦴
Best known for her work at West Stow, this issue highlights her lesser-known but vital research on middle Saxon sites. Enjoy! eaareports.org.uk/publication/...
Best known for her work at West Stow, this issue highlights her lesser-known but vital research on middle Saxon sites. Enjoy! eaareports.org.uk/publication/...
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A&K n.18! We were lucky to host Maaike Groot in Sheffield on a Marie Curie Fellowship a few years ago. A leading expert on Roman husbandry, she’s now building an outstanding zooarch lab at Freie Universität Berlin.
This piece is one of several outputs from her Sheffield work doi.org/10.1515/PZ-2...
This piece is one of several outputs from her Sheffield work doi.org/10.1515/PZ-2...
Cattle husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands: chronological developments and regional differences in cattle frequencies, management, size and shape
Cattle are the dominant species in most archaeological sites in the Netherlands during the Iron Age and Roman period. However, there are differences in the relative importance of cattle and in how cat...
doi.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
A&K n.18! We were lucky to host Maaike Groot in Sheffield on a Marie Curie Fellowship a few years ago. A leading expert on Roman husbandry, she’s now building an outstanding zooarch lab at Freie Universität Berlin.
This piece is one of several outputs from her Sheffield work doi.org/10.1515/PZ-2...
This piece is one of several outputs from her Sheffield work doi.org/10.1515/PZ-2...
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A&K n.14 We return to the Sheffield team to highlight this paper by Idoia Grau Sologestoa who completed her PhD between the University of the Basque Country and the University of Sheffield. Idoia continues to be a leading light in medieval zooarchaeology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Livestock management in Spain from Roman to post-medieval times: a biometrical analysis of cattle, sheep/goat and pig
The aim of this paper is to present the results of the biometrical analysis carried out on cattle, sheep/goat and pig measurements from a number of Sp…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A&K n.14 We return to the Sheffield team to highlight this paper by Idoia Grau Sologestoa who completed her PhD between the University of the Basque Country and the University of Sheffield. Idoia continues to be a leading light in medieval zooarchaeology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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For A&K n.13 we would like to showcase this seminal paper on the study of colonial zooarchaeology. First author is Betsy Reitz, an absolute legend in the world of zooarchaeology, from whose work we have have all learned a lot. Paper here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Morphometric Data for Cattle from North America and the Caribbean Prior to the 1850s
An important aspect of early colonies was the adaptive response of domestic animals to new environments. This is reflected in zooarchaeological studie…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
For A&K n.13 we would like to showcase this seminal paper on the study of colonial zooarchaeology. First author is Betsy Reitz, an absolute legend in the world of zooarchaeology, from whose work we have have all learned a lot. Paper here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Should anybody be interested, @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social will give a seminar at the University of Cambridge on Thursday at 4pm., which can be followed online too. Details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
talks.cam : Meat consumption and the shaping of a Romano-British culture
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November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Should anybody be interested, @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social will give a seminar at the University of Cambridge on Thursday at 4pm., which can be followed online too. Details here: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
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Today we celebrate the work of one of our most dedicated members, Veronica Aniceti! 🎉
Her paper “Who’s Eating Pork?” has helped reshape our understanding of the pork taboo and the Islamic heritage of Sicily.
Enjoy the read! 🐖📖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Her paper “Who’s Eating Pork?” has helped reshape our understanding of the pork taboo and the Islamic heritage of Sicily.
Enjoy the read! 🐖📖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Who’s eating pork? Investigating pig breeding and consumption in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman/Aragonese Sicily (7th-14th c. AD)
This paper investigates the culture of pork consumption in Sicily by examining a number of archaeological faunal assemblages dated to chronological ph…
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October 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Today we celebrate the work of one of our most dedicated members, Veronica Aniceti! 🎉
Her paper “Who’s Eating Pork?” has helped reshape our understanding of the pork taboo and the Islamic heritage of Sicily.
Enjoy the read! 🐖📖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Her paper “Who’s Eating Pork?” has helped reshape our understanding of the pork taboo and the Islamic heritage of Sicily.
Enjoy the read! 🐖📖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🎉 Free Open Access Days!
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🎉 Free Open Access Days!
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
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#A&K Alive & Kicking helping n.10! This is an article by one of our longest members, Angelos Hadjikoumis. It is based on his PhD dissertation, undertaken in Sheffield. This is highly relevant ethnoarchaeological work. Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
Traditional pig herding practices in southwest Iberia: Questions of scale and zooarchaeological implications
Archaeological interpretations are interwoven with analogical reasoning. This paper presents a large volume of ethnographic data on traditional pig hu…
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October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
#A&K Alive & Kicking helping n.10! This is an article by one of our longest members, Angelos Hadjikoumis. It is based on his PhD dissertation, undertaken in Sheffield. This is highly relevant ethnoarchaeological work. Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology
The destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in Sheffield
YouTube video by Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab
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September 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology
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Our own Phoebe Liu has presented a poster based on her PhD research at the conference of the British Association for
Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Well done Phoebe! Photos by @snakesandbones.bsky.social. @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social @zig-saa.bsky.social @zooarch.bsky.social
Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Well done Phoebe! Photos by @snakesandbones.bsky.social. @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social @zig-saa.bsky.social @zooarch.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Our own Phoebe Liu has presented a poster based on her PhD research at the conference of the British Association for
Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Well done Phoebe! Photos by @snakesandbones.bsky.social. @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social @zig-saa.bsky.social @zooarch.bsky.social
Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Well done Phoebe! Photos by @snakesandbones.bsky.social. @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social @zig-saa.bsky.social @zooarch.bsky.social
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... now available as open access @phoebe-liu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
In search of draught cattle: An identification method
Draught cattle, used for ploughing and carting, contributed to drive social transformations in prehistoric societies by replacing or complementing hum…
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August 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... now available as open access @phoebe-liu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
It’s been an amazing journey❤️ Huge thanks to everyone who’s been beside me along the way. I have enough cattle for now😂
July 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It’s been an amazing journey❤️ Huge thanks to everyone who’s been beside me along the way. I have enough cattle for now😂
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A&K #7 - This week we're moving outside of Europe to highlight this remarkable compendium of Neotropical Zooarchaeology, edited by our wonderful Argentinian colleagues Mariana Mondini, Sebastián Muñoz and Pablo Fernández
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
May 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A&K #7 - This week we're moving outside of Europe to highlight this remarkable compendium of Neotropical Zooarchaeology, edited by our wonderful Argentinian colleagues Mariana Mondini, Sebastián Muñoz and Pablo Fernández
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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A&K #5 - We've got another domestication special for you this week! This time looking at the different ways Moslems and Christians improved sheep and cattle in Southern Portugal, read it here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#zooarchaeology
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#zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeological evidence for Moslem and Christian improvements of sheep and cattle in Portugal
This study of osteometric variation of sheep and cattle remains from archaeological sites in southern Portugal—the part that was once ruled by the Mos…
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April 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A&K #5 - We've got another domestication special for you this week! This time looking at the different ways Moslems and Christians improved sheep and cattle in Southern Portugal, read it here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#zooarchaeology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#zooarchaeology
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A&K #4 - Are you intrigued by goats? Would you like to know more about their role in the British Middle Ages? Well you're in luck! This week we bring you an article from our own Lenny and Umberto which tackles why goats have been neglected in British archaeology:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Was the English medieval goat genuinely rare? A new morphometric approach provides the answer - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
There are important gaps in the historical and archaeological evidence that have, so far, precluded us from reliably assessing the role of the goat in the English Middle Ages. This, in part, is the di...
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April 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A&K #4 - Are you intrigued by goats? Would you like to know more about their role in the British Middle Ages? Well you're in luck! This week we bring you an article from our own Lenny and Umberto which tackles why goats have been neglected in British archaeology:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A&K #3 - Our latest instalment discusses the introduction of the domestic horse to Ireland, using modern technology (radiocarbon measurements) to tackle an age old question - when did the horse first appear? Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@icaz-news.bsky.social
@icaz-news.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A&K #3 - Our latest instalment discusses the introduction of the domestic horse to Ireland, using modern technology (radiocarbon measurements) to tackle an age old question - when did the horse first appear? Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@icaz-news.bsky.social
@icaz-news.bsky.social
Having so much fun in the Animal Palaeopathology Working Group meeting 🐮🦴 @icaz-news.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Having so much fun in the Animal Palaeopathology Working Group meeting 🐮🦴 @icaz-news.bsky.social
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oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/.../RELM/20/... It's great to see the book dedicated to our fantastic colleagues An Lentacker and Anton Ervynck, who have done so much for #zooarchaeology, published thanks to the efforts of Bea De Cupere et al. @icaz-news.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/.../RELM/20/... It's great to see the book dedicated to our fantastic colleagues An Lentacker and Anton Ervynck, who have done so much for #zooarchaeology, published thanks to the efforts of Bea De Cupere et al. @icaz-news.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social
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Apologies, it seems this link doesn't allow downloads! Get your own copy of the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kau3_glky...
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March 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Apologies, it seems this link doesn't allow downloads! Get your own copy of the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kau3_glky...
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A&K #2 - A piece of work from one of our own PhD students this week. I'm sharing this again because it will only be available on open access until the end of March so get it while you can!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Spavin in modern and archaeological cattle: Reassessing its association with traction use
To investigate the correlations of biological factors, including age, body size, and sex, with the occurrence of spavin, demonstrating that using spav…
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March 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A&K #2 - A piece of work from one of our own PhD students this week. I'm sharing this again because it will only be available on open access until the end of March so get it while you can!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#1 - 'Archaeozoological Analysis of the Fortified Settlement of Sand (10th Century AD, Lower Austria)' by Konstantina Saliari
This is a zooarchaeological analysis of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in Lower Austria, a fascinating site with lots of faunal remains.
This is a zooarchaeological analysis of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in Lower Austria, a fascinating site with lots of faunal remains.
March 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#1 - 'Archaeozoological Analysis of the Fortified Settlement of Sand (10th Century AD, Lower Austria)' by Konstantina Saliari
This is a zooarchaeological analysis of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in Lower Austria, a fascinating site with lots of faunal remains.
This is a zooarchaeological analysis of the Early Medieval fortified settlement Sand, in Lower Austria, a fascinating site with lots of faunal remains.
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Congratulations to our very own Phoebe Liu @phoebe-liu.bsky.social, Lenny Salvagno, and Umberto Albarella @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social who have just published a new paper on spavin in cattle! You can read it here for free until the 1st of April - authors.elsevier.com/a/1kau3_glky...
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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