Animal Archaeology

Journal Articles

• Communities & Crowds: A Toolkit for Hybrid Volunteering with Cultural Collections – co-authored with Geoff Belknap, Sam Blickhan, Lynn Wray, Lincoln Anderson, Lawrence Brooks, Jacob Fox, Paulien ten Hagen, Matt Hick, Adrian Hine, Maureen Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Rebecca Smith, and Ruth Quinn, Science Museum Group Journal (2024)
• Side Quest Added: Video Game Mechanics and the Potential for Pseudoarchaeology – Epoiesen (2024)
• Ancient Egyptian Curses and Bog Bodies: Second Response – written in response to Emma Verstraete’s article, Epoiesen (2024)
• Opening up the Archive: An Approach to Volunteer-led Crowdsourcing in the Museum and Online – co-authored with Geoff Belknap, Sam Blickhan, and Lynn Wray,  IMPact: e-Journal of Higher Education Research 7(1) (2024) 1-14.
• There is Power in the Past: The Politicization of Archaeology and Heritage in the Star Wars Universe – co-authored with Stephanie Halmhofer, Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship 3(1) (2023)
• Policy Statement Mental Well-being among Anthropologists at Universities: A Call for System Transformation – co-authored with Erica Hua Fletcher, Emma Louise Backe, Tory Brykalski, Melinda González, Shir Lerman Ginzburg, Rob Meeker, Rachel P. Riendeau, Meagan Thies-Sauder, and Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 36(1) (2022)
• Accountability in Action: How Can Archaeology Make Amends? – Special Issue: Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (2021), p. 14-16.
• A Brief Consideration of the Late Prehistoric Appearance and Possible Significance of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) in the Covesea Caves of North-East Scotland – co-authored with Julie Bond, Lindsey Büster, and Ian Armit, The Glasgow Naturalist 27(2) (2020)
• Identification of Avian Remains from Covesea Cave 2 on the Moray Firth Coast, Northeastern Scotland – Cave & Karst Science 46(3) (2019), p. 115-117
• Fish Bones, Microscopes, and Isotopes: A Pilot Study in Applying Analytical Methods to Iron Age Faunal Remains – Assemblage 17 (2019), p. 1-10

Book Chapters & Contributions

• Archaeologists, Activists, and Angry Trolls: Using Social Media for Digital Activism in Archaeology – Documenting Activism, Creating Change: Archaeology and the Legacy of #MeToo (2025)
• How to Provide Outreach that is In Reach: An Examination of Trends towards Multivocality and Accessibility in Digital Public Archaeology – co-authored with Tristian Boyle in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Media in the 21st Century (2024)
• Fieldwork and Feeled-Work: Addressing Mental Health in Ethnography – co-authored with Emma Louise Backe in Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier & More Ethical (2024)
• Stories Around the Campfire – Contributor, Return to the Interactive Past: The Interplay of Video Games and Histories (2021), p. 206-207.
• Precarity as a Migrant Family Tradition – A Day is a Struggle (2021)

Newsletter & Magazine Articles

• Where is the Diversity in the Heritage Sector? Attempting to Resolve a National and Local Issue – Briefing 12 (2023), pp. 38-39
• Current Barriers for Disabled People in Accessing Archaeology – co-authored with Sarahjayne Clements and Abi Hunt, The Archaeologist 118, Winter (2023), pp. 3-6.
• So…is Archaeology Decolonized Yet? – New Voices in Postcolonial Studies, Summer (2021), p. 29-33
• New Light on the Covesea Caves, north-east Scotland – co-authored with Lindsey Büster and Ian Armit, PAST 96, Autumn (2020), p. 2-5
• In the Future, We Will Create a Typology for Thrift Store Tags – Barrow 4. (2020), p. 26-27.

Online Publications

• The Archaeology of Extinct Animals in Scotland – Dig It! Scotland (2025)
• A Guide to Disability Inclusion in Archaeology – co-written with Sarahjayne Clements, Abi Hunt, Kymberly Jones, Frea O’Dea, and David Connolly, British Archaeological Jobs and Resources (2025)
• Congruence Engine in Bradford: Towards a Local Instance of the National Collection Social Machine – co-written with Arran Rees, Science Museum Group (2023)
• On Changing Terminology: From “Dis/Abled” to “Disabled” – Enabled Archaeology Foundation (2023)
• New Approaches to Hybrid Volunteering: A Report from the Communities & Crowds Workshop – National Science and Media Museum (2023)
• From the Archives to the Internet: Updates from the Communities & Crowds Project – National Science and Media Museum (2023)
• What Does a PhD Mean in a Pandemic? – Scientists Are Human (2020)
• Dogs, Not Dinos! The Truth About Zooarchaeology – Dig It! Scotland(2020)
• You Will Never Be Indiana Jones – Lady Science (2020)
• Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland – Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (2019)
• To Be the Curator, and Not the Curated – SISTER (2019)

Media

• Better Care Urged for Animal Remains Tied to Indigenous Peoples – Science (2025)
• Why the Gonzo Conspiracy that Rome isn’t Real Keeps Going Viral – The Daily Beast (2022)

Interviews

• Meet Alex Fitzpatrick – Mummy Stories (2023)
• Zooarchaeology: Ritual and Funeral Burials in the Covesea Caves – Ask an Archaeologist, hosted by Behind the Trowel (2021)
• Cave of Wonders: Ritual and Funerary Zooarchaeology at the Covesea Caves – Current Archaeology Live (2021)
• From Trenches to TV: The 21st Century Archaeologist – Festival of Archaeology, hosted by Shout Out Loud (2020)
• Animal Bones and Archaeology – ArchaeoDuck’s Meet the Archaeologist (2018)

Podcast Episodes

• ArchaeoAnimals Podcast – Host (2018 – 2023)
• Alex(andra) Fitzpatrick – Admixing Alexandra’s Get Real (2025)
• And Thanks for All the Fish Bones – Goblinological Fantasies (2024)
• A Bestiary of Dragons and Wyrms (Part Two) – And My Trowel Podcast (2023)
• A Bestiary of Dragons and Wyrms (Part One) – And My Trowel Podcast (2023)
• The Trial of the Tomb Raider – Hey, Lesson! Podcast (2021)
• The Anti-Indiana Jones Approach: Decolonizing Zooarchaeology – PhDivas Podcast (2020)
• Phinishing Your PhD During a Pandemic – PhDivas Podcast (2020)
• Zooarchaeology with Alex Fitzpatrick – The Palmer Files Podcast (2020)
• #DiggingWhileDepressed, Mental Health, and Archaeology– Women in Archaeology Podcast (2019)
• How Do We Study Zooarchaeology of Bronze Age Scotland? – The Arch and Anth Podcast (2019)
• Interview with Alex Fitzpatrick – Ask an Archaeologist Podcast (2018)
• Zooarchaeology – Women in Archaeology Podcast (2018)

Scriptwriting

• When Did We Stop Being Naked? – PBS Eons (2023)
• The Neanderthal Burial That Taught Us About Humanity – PBS Eons (2023)
• How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends – PBS Eons (2020)
• How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) – PBS Eons (2019)
• When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia – PBS Eons (2019)

Game Development

• The Congruence Engine: A Research Simulator Game – Multimedia Twine Game (2024)
• Curator Simulator (Completely Random Edition) – Multimedia Twine Game (2024)

Crowdsourcing Project Design

• Bradford’s Industrial History in Photographs – Zooniverse Crowdsourcing Project (2024)
• How Did We Get Here? – Zooniverse Crowdsourcing Project (2023)

Conferences and Seminars

• Co-Creating with Communities & Crowds: Community Co-Creation and Online Crowdsourcing with Collections – Transforming Collections Programme: Co-creating Collections (2025)
  Connecting Distributed Collections in the Digital Era: Preliminary Work with the John Garstang Archaeological Collection – Society for Museum Archaeology Annual Conference (2025)
• Reconstructing the Ancient Past: Digital Access and Visibility of the Garstang Distributed Collection – History Day North (2025)
• Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland: An Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves – Scottish Society for Northern Studies Seminar Series, (2025)
  Trowels For a Better Tomorrow? Making Archaeology ‘Actionable’ and ‘Aspirational’ in Dire Times – Museum of London Archaeology Research Seminar Series (2025)
• F*ck Your Civility, I Want Change! On Subversive Anger as an Asian American Archaeologist – Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2024)
• Benefits & Challenges of Crowdsourcing Collections Data Online – Artefacts XXIX: New Digital Practice for Science and Technology Collections (2024)
• Anti-oppressive Practices in the Context of the CE Project – presented with Julia Ankenbrand and Arran Rees, Artefacts XXIX: New Digital Practice for Science and Technology Collections (2024)
• Bringing the Archives to the Masses: Online Crowdsourcing with Photographic Collections – The Past: People and Places Seminar Series (2024)
• Living Diversity in Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research in Digital Cultural Heritage: Lessons Learned from the ‘Congruence Engine’ Project – presented with Anna-Maria Sichani, Nayomi Kasthuriarachchi, Julia Ankenbrand, Daniel Belteki, Natasha Kitcher, and Kaspar Beelen, UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Annual Event (2024)
• Enabling Archaeology for Everyone: A Call to Action from the Enabled Archaeology Foundation – presented with Abigail Hunt, Emily Stammitti, and Sarahjayne Clements, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2023)
• Unlocking the Future of Virtual Volunteering – presented with Geoff Belknap, Heritage Volunteering Group Conference (2023)
• Digital Intersections Around Science Collections – presented with Geoff Belknap, Rebekah Higgitt, and Sarah Middle, Digital Festival for the History of Science (2023)
• Opening up the Archive: An Approach to Volunteer-led Citizen Science in the Museum and Online – presented with Geoff Belknap, Heritage Dot Conference (2023)
• Reimagining Zoos: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Conservation and Curation – presented with Hanna Marie Pageau, World Archaeological Congress (2022)
• Does Zooarchaeology Matter? A Case for Actionable Animal Archaeologies – Zooarchaeology Saves the World (2022)
• Moving Towards Decolonisation: Proposing a Framework for Action in Universities – Making Diversity Interventions Count (2022)
• Digging While Depressed and dis/Abled: Mental Health and Accessibility in Archaeological Practice – CIfA2022 Annual Conference (2022)
• Promoting Progress: Using Social Media to Diversify Archaeology – Digging Archaeology through Social Media (2022)
• Unearthing the Uncomfortable: Reflections on the Continued Lack of Diversity in British Archaeology – Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society Community Archaeology Conference (2022)
• Gesturing Beyond Bones: Proposing a Decolonised Zooarchaeology – Approaches to Decolonising Research (2022)
• There is Power in the Past: The Politicization of Archaeology and Heritage in the Star Wars Universe – presented with Stephanie Halmhofer, Realizing Resistance Episode II: Uncharted Galaxies (2021)
• On Liminality: Space, Time, and Identities – Spring into Science: Queer Representation in Research (2021)
• Beyond Domestication and Subsistence: A Call for a Decolonised Zooarchaeology – Decolonising Science Narratives (2019)
• #DiggingWhileDepressed: A Call for Mental Health Awareness in Archaeology – Public Archaeology Twitter Conference (2019)
• Should We Respect Rover’s Remains? A Discussion on Ethics, or the Lack Thereof, in Zooarchaeology – Animal Remains Conference (2019)
• The WordPress Workshop: Blogging as a Method for Theory Development – PressEd Conference (2019)
• No Margins, No Word Counts, No Masters! Experimenting with ‘Zines for Archaeological Outreach – Public Archaeology Twitter Conference (2019)
• Black Flags and Black Trowels: Embracing Anarchy in Interpretation and Practice – Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2018)
• Caves of Wonder: A Preliminary Analysis of the Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland – British Cave Research Association Symposium (2018)
• The World Wide Reference Collection: Zooarchaeological Twitter and the Case for an International Zooarchaeology Database – Computer Applications in Archaeology Twitter Conference (2018)
• Things Worth Telling: Considering the Narrative in Environmental Archaeology – presented presented with Valerie San Filippo, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2017)
• Fishing, Diet, and Environment in the Iron Age of the Northern Isles – Iron Age Research Society Student Symposium (2017)

Thesis Papers

• Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland: An Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves – PhD Thesis (2020)
• Fishing, Diet, and Environment in the Iron Age of the Northern Isles – MSc Thesis (2016)

Grey Literature/Technical Reports

Most papers and presentation slides can be accessed via my ResearchGate or Knowledge Commons profiles. I can also provide PDF copies if requested.

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