Cattle and People - Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Relationship - Grand Format

Lizzie Wright is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow at The University of York, United Kingdom. Much of her work focuses on the study of ancient cattle. She has authored The Morphological Variability of the European Aurochs from the Middle Pleistocene to its Extinction (British Archaeological Reports, 2016) and has published two large databases of cattle zooarchaeological data : Biometrical Database of European Aurochs and Domestic Cattle (2016) and Neolithic and Bronze Age cattle data from Switzerland (2021), as well as a number of journal articles on ancient cattle.
Catarina Ginja is the leader of the archaeogenetics research group at BIOPOLIS/ CIBIO/InBlO and an invited collaborator of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal. She has published extensively in the field of population genetics and conservation of domestic animal genetic resources. She was the scientific coordinator of the Art & Science book Esses Ossos (In-Libris, 2019) and co-editor of the volume Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology : From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic (Oxbow,2021).