WELCOME TO UPSA ZOOARCH LAB WEBSITE!! Learn about us, our facility and collections, research interests, contact info, current projects and partnerships. archaeology.upd.edu.ph/zooarchaeology…

UPSA ZOOARCHAEOLOGY LAB HAS A LOGO!! It feautures some representative faunal specimens, sometimes found in Filipino archaeological sites: a cloud rat skull, a tamaraw skull and a Nautilus shell. For the human component, a Kalinga spear made of metal, wood, and rattan.

Last night, two members of the UPSA Zooarch Lab, Dr. Juan Rofes and Gaby Gascon, attended the first meeting of the French Thai Prehistoric Mission. This project is led by Dr. Corentin Bochaton and aims to explore the prehistoric archaeological record of Southern Thailand.

Quincy Lingao, and Juan Rofes recently visited Cebu City to assess the potential of archaeofaunal collections from pre-, Spanish contact, and post-contact periods stored in the Old Jesuit House and Museo Sugbo. Thanks to the Pantropocene Project and John Peterson & Archie Tiauzon

Muchas gracias to Marcos Octavio Vara Jacobo for visiting the lab today, it was our pleasure to show you our work! He is the Head of Economic-Commercial, Promotion, International Cooperation, and Cultural Affairs from the Embassy of Mexico in the Philippines.

UPSA Zooarchaeology Lab Thanks so much for the kind invitation. The links between Mexico and the Philippines are deep. And the contribution of the Department is more than relevant for discovering them. Maraming Salamat! 🇲🇽 🤝🏽 🇵🇭

The Essentials of a Zooarchaeologist: Our favorite reference for taphonomic modifications, the Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications (2016) by Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo & Peter Andrews. You can check it out at our UP School of Archaeology Library!

Welcome new students and thank you for visiting our lab! If any of you are interested in studying faunal remains, you know where to go! 😉

Ongoing excavation: Dr. Hermine Xhauflair & Taj Vitales are leading the Mission Palawan in Guri Cave, Palawan & Zooarcher Chin Cabrera is part of their team. She is assigned to excavate a column & sieve those sediments as an effective method of recovering microvertebrate remains.

This Wednesday, let's join the talk of our very own Quincy Lingao! Join us on 26th July, 12pm at Albert Hall Seminar Room 2 or via Zoom (958 6828 5184, BnltZOOM; scan the QR code found at the bottom of the poster to access the link).

Congratulations to the new graduates of the UP School of Archaeology! Padayon!🌻🌻🌻

Our Zooarcher, Patricia Cabrera is finally back from two fieldwork experiences in Kalinga and Guri Cave (Palawan)! Aside from participating in the excavations, in Guri Cave, she was in charge of the wet sieving of sediments for the recovery of small vertebrate remains.

Our Zooarcher, Quincy Lingao, is back from her three-week (August 1-20, 2023) journey as a fieldwork volunteer at Fort Almonte, a 19th century Spanish structure located in Bacolod, Lanao del Norte. Congratulations Quincy and to the Fort Almonte Archaeology Team in this endeavor!

Yesterday, Dr. Juan Rofes and Zooarcher Quincy Lingao visited the Philippines Institute of Nuclear Research (PNRI) to deliver archaeological animal bone samples which will be sent to the Micro Analysis Laboratory, Tandem Accelerator, University of Tokyo for radiocarbon dating.

📢 New publication alert!! 📢 Congratulations Dr. Rofes on this new paper! "CAN SMALL VERTEBRATES TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT PALAEOLITHIC ROCK ART? To know the answer, you have to read this fantastic paper published in Scientific Reports. nature.com/articles/s4159…

MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PAPER FUNDED BY UPD. "Evolving landscape and cultural change during the Middle Palaeolithic in Southeast Zagros (Iran): Insights from a micromammal assemblage". Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 333, 1 June 2024, 108657. authors.elsevier.com/a/1j1YI-4PS9tio

NEW PUBLICATION: PIG-HUMAN ENTANGLEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES Amazing new UPSA research paper brilliantly lead by Ms. Joan Quincy Lingao. Published in an ongoing Special Issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology edited by Dr. Max Findley. rdcu.be/dSE2o

Our latest research featured by University of the Philippines Diliman. upd.edu.ph/the-pigs-meani…