Congratulations to Nevada, Zara, and Maddie on the Kirp Prize!!

https://issi.berkeley.edu/research-programs/issi-prizes/kirp-prize/honorees-kirp

“Utilizing the Gift” explores the potential of oral histories and Indigenous self-narratives to create different histories in archaeological narratives. Using zooarchaeology, oral history interviews, and archival ethnographic texts, Bear Bones Lab colleague Melanie Cootsona and her co-author describe a gifting model of human-animal relationships, as demonstrated by turkeys at the New Mexican Pueblo of Picuris. See it in the Journal of Social Archaeology.

A new study of North American Clovis points dating to at least 13,000 years ago finds that this well-known Native American tradition was a remarkable innovation in longstanding hunting strategies.  Findings based on museum collections from archaeological sites offer insight into the ways people adapted to landscapes dominated by Ice Age megafauna, including mammoths, giant bison and extinct horses, during the Paleolithic.