Dr Nathalie BrusgaardAug 29, 2023
I'm now on Mastodon so time for an #Introduction post. Hi! I'm an archaeologist and I research our relationship with animals through time. I examine animal remains 🦴, do biochemical analyses 🔬, and study iconography 🎨 I work(ed) on 🐄🐖🐪🦌🦦 and plan to study many more!
#archaeology #animals #scicomm
Show threadDr Nathalie BrusgaardAug 29, 2023
And I'm also working on beavers at the moment but sadly there's no beaver emoji on mastodon 😢
Show threadLoukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️
@brusgaard the archaeology of beaver lodges or the prehistoric iconography of the beaver or both or?
Aug 29, 2023 at 11:42amWeb
Show threadDr Nathalie BrusgaardAug 30, 2023
@Loukas I work on the archaeology of human-beaver interactions. No iconography of beavers but I have looked at use of beaver remains as pendants, tools, etc :)
Show threadLoukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 30, 2023
@brusgaard is that the main kind of interaction? In hunting and use of animal parts for making things?
Show threadDr Nathalie BrusgaardSep 1, 2023
@Loukas What we can see archaeologically, yes. But I think they also interacted in other ways, like hunter-gatherers settling in beaver landscapes and benefitting from everything beavers do for the ecosystem