zooarchaeologyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zooarchaeology_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezooarchaeology, n.
Revised 2017

zooarchaeologynoun

  1. 1967–
    The study of the animal remains from archaeological sites.
    1. 1967
      Animal hist., zoo-archaeology.
      Current Anthropology vol. 8 598/1
    2. 1972
      Recently the Atlas of Animal Bones by Elisabeth Schmid has become available for research workers in zooarcheology.
      Science 20 October 297/2
    3. 1985
      Taphonomy..has..only recently become an integral part of zoo-archaeology (or, as the subject of faunal analysis is more usually called in Europe, archaeo-zoology).
      Times Literary Supplement 7 June 646/1
    4. 2006
      On one dig, in Jordan, the animal bone specialist Paul Croft got me interested in zooarchaeology.
      C. Stringer, Homo Britannicus App. 292/2

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.