zooarchaeologicalhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zooarchaeological_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezooarchaeological, adj.
First published 2022

zooarchaeologicaladjective

  1. 1962–
    Of, relating to, or concerned with zooarchaeology; designating animal remains recovered from an archaeological site.
    1. 1962
      Because of its dynamic geological history and attendant climatic and vegetational changes, Trinidad, West Indies, is of considerable zooarcheological interest.
      E. S. Wing, Succession Mammalian Faunas Trinidad (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Florida) Introduction 2
    2. 1982
      We can now present types of data (and conclusions) unheard of in the not too distant past; e.g., calculating biomass and caloric intake of human populations from zooarchaeological remains.
      Practising Anthropology vol. 4 20/4
    3. 2016
      The subject they were given was reconstructing ancient diets using zooarchaeological techniques.
      South Yorkshire Times (Nexis) 11 May

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

zooarchaeological, adj. was first published in 2022.