Meetings:
The next meeting will be at 5:00pm at the Metro Books Coffee Shop on Benson across from the Sears Mall. The day wiill be announced on the discussion list.

Workshop: see the Workshop page. Next workshop is 2008 in Anchorage. The topic will be distinguishing bone, antler & ivory, and our guest instructor will be Joan Dale.

We have established a scholarship in Christina Jensen's name to help a student working on a zooarchaeological project. The deadline will be in February 1, 2008. The winner of the 2007 Christina Jensen scholarship was Cody Strathe, a graduate student at UAF.  The scholarship will help fund his thesis research on a faunal assemblage from the Mink Island site, the oldest dated site in the Amalik Bay National Historic Landmark in Katmai National Park and Preserve.  Specifically, Strathe is analyzing harbor seal bones for stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in order to develop a proxy of marine ecosystem productivity during past millennia.

Lee Post has several skeleton building books available at $34.00 per copy (price includes shipping and handling). You can order directly from Lee Post.
Lee has a new book *Bone Builder's Notebook or more than you really wanted to know about preparing animal skeletons for articulation*.  It covers everything from cleaning skeletons and degreasing them, articulating study skeletons, to repairing the study skeletons.  It is a particularly wonderful resource for zooarchaeologists trying to figure out how to prepare the skeletons for a comparative collection. He talks about preparing skeletons using dermestids, boiling (with a bird skeleton boiling time chart), maceration, composting, etc.  This volume is larger than his other books and sells for $50.

Mystery bones:

If you have something that is making you crazy send a jpg photograph in and will give it a try. Send your message and photograph to alaskacz@akzooarch.org

Medullary Bone. Christine LeFevre was kind enough to send us some pictures of bird medullary bone.

 

New books:
Identification of Waterfowl Breastbones and Avian Osteology (Sterna) of North American Anseriformes, by David W. Oates, ed. D. Boyd, and Jennifer S. Ramarkers. 2003. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville.

Innovations in assessing season of capture, age and sex of archaeofaunas, Anne Pike-Tay, editor. ArcaeoZoologia, Vol. XI/1.2. Available from Oxbow Books

The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific, by Milton S. Love, Mary Yoklavich, and Lyman Thorsteinson. 2002. University of California Press, Berkeley

Fishes of Alaska by Catherine W. Mecklenburg, T. Anthony Mecklenburg and Lyman K. Thorsteinson.2002. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

 

Recent articles by members:
Darwent, Christyann M. 2006 Reassessing the Old Whaling Locality at Cape Krusenstern , Alaska . In: Dynamics of Northern Societies. Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th–14th, 2004, edited by Jette Arneborg and Bjarne Grønnow, pp. 95–102. PNM, Publications from the National Museum , Studies in Archaeology and History, Vol. 10, Copenhagen.

Darwent, John, and Christyann M. Darwent. 2005 The Occupational History of the Old Whaling Site at Cape Krusenstern . Alaska Journal of Anthropology 3(2):135–153.

Darwent, Cristyann M. and John Darwent. 2004. Where the muskox roamed: biography of tundra muskox (Ovibos muschatus) in the eastern arctic. In Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology. Edited by R. Lee Lyman and Kenneth P. Canon. Univ of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Pp. 61-87.

Darwent, Christyann M. 2002. The highs and lows of high arctic mammals: temporal change and regional variability in paleoeskimo subsistence. Colonization, Migration, and Marginal Areas. Edited by Mondini, M., Munoz, S., and Wickler, S. 9th ICAZ Conference, Durham. Pp. 62-73.

Etnier, Michael A. 2004. The potential of zooarchaeological data to guide pinniped management decisions in the Eastern North Pacific. In: Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology, edited by R.L. Lyman and K.P. Cannon, pp 88-102. Univ. of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Kopperl, Robert E. 2003. Cultural complexity and resource intensification on Kodiak Island, Alaska. PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.

Endicott, Neal and Robert Ackerman. 2004. Microtene fauna from the Lime Hills cave, SW Alaska. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology meeting.

Darwent, Christyanne. 2001. High Arctic Paleoeskimo Fauna: Temporal Changes and Regional Differences. Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia. PhD Dissertation.

Etnier, Michael A. 2002. The effects of human hunting on northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) migration and breeding distributions in the Late Holocene. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.

Etnier, M. A. 2002. Occurrences of Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) on the Washington coast over the past 500 years. Marine Mammal Science 18(2):551-557.

Larson, S., R. Jameson, M. Etnier, M. Fleming, and P. Bentzen 2002. Loss of genetic diversity in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) associated with the fur trade of the 18th and 19th centuries. Molecular Ecology 11(10):1899-1904.

Morin, P.A., LeDuc, R.G., Robertson, K.M., Hedrick , N.M. , Perrin, W.F., Etnier, M., Wade, P., and Taylor, B.L. 2006. Genetic analysis of killer whale (Orcinus orca) historical bone and tooth samples to identify western U.S. ecotypes. Marine Mammal Science 22(4): 897-909.

Saleeby, Becky. 2002. Out of place bones: beyond the study of prehistoric subsistence. J. Arctic Research. Fall.