Sheffield Zooarchaeology Short Course

09/06/2026

When in Sheffield, Maaike was also a regular contributor to our short courses!

27/04/2026

Lenny Salvagno, super-hero of our short courses!

SUMMARY: The assemblage from Greenwich High Road has interesting implications for our understanding of 18th- and early 19th-century tanneries and also of the use of bones as building material. The ...

15/04/2026

Tracy - a great protagonist of our short courses!

Here is some news from our staunch member Tracy Platts, former MSc Osteoarchaeology and PhD student at Sheffield. Tracy is currently working at the University of Durham in collaboration with Max Price. She is studying a very large animal bone assemblage from the Roman fort & vicus of Binchester (Bishop Aukland). We wish Tracy and Max all the best with their project! Save Sheffield Archaeology Sheffield Zooarchaeology Short Course Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning Zooarchaeology Network International Council for Archaeozoology - ICAZ

16/03/2026

when in Sheffield, Laura was of great help with our short courses!

03/03/2026

Marian was a brilliant contributor to our short courses

05/01/2026

It was such a pleasure to have Beatrice back in Sheffield helping with our short courses a couple of years ago. The occasional return of some of the historical members of our team was always a great pleasure of our short course - before management decided to ban our short courses when they became concerned by their popularity.

Alive is Kicking starts the New Year with its helping n.38, which celebrates the work of a veteran member of our team - Beatrice V***a. Beatrice did her PhD with us 2008-2012 and this paper "The hunting of large mammals in the upper palaeolithic of southern Italy: A diachronic case study from Grotta del Romito" stems from her PhD work. Beatrice eventually moved on in her life but has remained close to out team and contributed fairly recently to one of our short courses - a much cherished and welcome return! Sheffield Zooarchaeology Twinning Save Sheffield Archaeology Zooarchaeology Network Sheffield Zooarchaeology Short Course MSc Osteoarchaeology

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618211003880

15/10/2025

short course legend!

The Later Iron Age in Britain was a transformative period: material culture, settlement patterns, technology, trade networks, and the structures of power changed, ultimately leading to the Roman inva...

01/10/2025

Chiara gave an amazing contribution to our short courses!

Wild birds are intrinsically associated with our perception of the Middle Ages. They often feature in heraldic designs, paintings, and books of hours; few human activities typify the medieval perio...

30/09/2025

Not content of banning our short courses, the university management has partly vandalised our collections - but we are still resisting! Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab

28th Sept, 2025 - Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each episode Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's ne...

23/09/2025

If destroying our world-famous short courses wasn't bad enough... the direction of the Executive is, rather perversely, clear