Michael MacKinnon

Title: Full Professor
Phone: 204.786.9875
Office: 4G17
Building: Graham Hall
Email: m.mackinnon@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:
BSc (Hons), University of Toronto
BA University of Toronto
MA University of Alberta
PhD University of Alberta

Biography:
Recipient of the Erica and Arnold Award for Research Excellence in 2015
Recipient of the Margo Tytus Fellowship, University of Cincinnati 2016

Research Interests:
Classical archaeology, animals in the ancient world, ancient texts, ancient art, and osteology.

Publications:

2022. MacKinnon, M. “Animals and Industry at Torre de Palma: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Faunal Remains,” in S.J. Maloney, M. Lucas Powell and S.P. McNabb (eds.), Life and Death at Torre de Palma: Two Millennia of Rural Life in the Alto Alentejo, Portugal, pp. 165-214. Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arquelogia, Suplemento 11.

2022. Taivalkoski, A., Holt, E., MacKinnon, M. “Bird Eggs in the Diet of Ancient Pompeii: An SEM Analysis of Archaeological Avian Eggshell.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41 (2022) 103258.

2021. MacKinnon, M. “Animal Supply,” in A. Futrell and T.F. Scanlon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World, pp. 545-56. Oxford: Oxford University Press

2021. MacKinnon, M. “Faunal Remains from Site 304: Fills, Graves and Aspects of Identifying Ritual,” in N. Ben Lazreg, L.M. Stirling and J.P. Moore (eds.), Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No.4. The East Cemetery: Stratigraphy, Ceramics, Non-Ceramic Finds and Bio-archaeological Studies, pp. 579-606. Portsmouth: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 110.

2020. MacKinnon, M. “Zooarchaeological Research and Our Understanding of Animals in Ancient Ostia,” in A. Karivieri (ed.), Life and Death in a Multicultural Harbour City: Ostia Antica from the Republic through Late Antiquity, pp. 219-24. Rome: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 47.

2020. Bishop, K.G., S. Garvie-Lok, M. Haagsma, M. MacKinnon, S. Karapanou. “Mobile Animal Management in the Mediterranean: Investigating Hellenistic (323-31 BCE) Husbandry Practices in Thessaly, Greece Using ∂13C, ∂18O, and 87Sr/86Sr Recorded from Sheep and Goat Tooth Enamel,” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31, 102331.

2020. MacKinnon, M. various contributions to the following publication: Bowes, K. (ed), 2020. The Roman Peasant Project, 2009-2014: Excavating the Rural Poor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

2019. MacKinnon, M. “Consistency and Change: Zooarchaeological Investigation of Late Antique Diets and Husbandry Techniques in the Mediterranean Region,” Antiquité Tardive 27, 135-148.

2019. MacKinnon, M. “Harvested Pigs and Hunted Prey: ‘Romanization’ and Zooarchaeological Trends in the Mediterranean Region,” in M.G. Allen (ed.), The Role of Zooarchaeology in the Study of the Western Roman Empire, pp. 73-84. Portsmouth RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 107.

2019. MacKinnon, M. “Meat and Other Animal Products,” in P. Erdkamp and C. Holleran (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World, pp. 150-162. New York: Routledge.

2018. MacKinnon, M. “Zooarchaeology: Reconstructing the Natural and Cultural Worlds from Archaeological Faunal Remains,” in W. Scheidel (ed.), The Science of Roman History. Biology, Climate and the Future of the Past, pp. 95-122. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press. 

2018. “Tastes of Meat in Antiquity: Integrating the Textual and Zooarchaeological Evidence.” In Taste and the Ancient Senses, edited K.C. Rudolph, pp. 161-78. London and New York: Routledge.

2018. “Zooarchaeology Method and Practice in Classical Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Pathways Forward.” In Zooarchaeology in Practice: Case Studies in Methodology and Interpretation in Archaeofaunal Analysis, edited by C.M. Giovas and M.J. LeFebvre, pp. 269-90. New York: Springer.

2018. “Multispecies Dynamics and the Ecology of Urban Spaces in Roman Antiquity.” In Multispecies Archaeology, edited by S.E. Pilaar Birch, pp. 170-82. London and New York: Routledge.

2017. “Animals, Acculturation and Colonization in Ancient and Islamic North Africa.” In The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology, edited by U. Albarella, H. Russ, K. Vickers, and S. Viner-Daniels, pp. 466-78. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015. “Changes in Animal Husbandry as a Consequence of Changing Social and Economic Patterns: Zooarchaeological Evidence from the Roman Mediterranean Context.” In Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World, edited by P. Erdkamp, K. Verboven and A. Zuiderhoek, pp. 249-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2014. “Animals in the Urban Fabric of Ostia: Initiating a Comparative Zooarchaeological Synthesis.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 27: 175-201.

2014. “Animals, Economics and Culture in the Athenian Agora: Comparative Zooarchaeological Investigations.” Hesperia 83: 189-255.

2013. “Pack-Animals, Pets, Pests, and Other Non-Human Beings.” In The Cambridge Companion to the City of Rome, edited by P. Erdkamp, pp. 110-28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.