From September 22 to 27, 2014 UNT Geography graduate students Laura Ellyson and Jon Dombrosky joined zooarchaeologists from around the world in San Rafael, Argentina to present their research at the International Conference of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), which takes place every four years. Laura's poster presentation was on her recently defended thesis research covering the role of garden game (mainly cottontail rabbits) and domesticated turkey as animal food sources just prior to the abandonment of the Mesa Verde Region of the American Southwest at AD 1300. Jon's presentation centered on using push-pull migration concepts from human geography to study emigration of people from the Mesa Verde region in southwestern Colorado to other parts of the American Southwest, including the North Rio Grande River Valley, at AD 1300. His presentation was entitled "Patches and Pulls: Assessing the Role of Large Game in the Mesa Verde/Northern Rio Grande Migration." Together, Laura's and Jon's research represents part of a larger environmental archaeological research program at UNT researching human diet and cultural ecology in the Mesa Verde region during the late Holocene. For both of them, this was their first international travel experience, and neither of them speaks Spanish. When you next see them, ask them about their experiences!