Associate Professor Vicky Oelze co-authored “Early transatlantic movement of horses and donkeys at Jamestown” in Science Advances, which highlights how Equids were central to the colonization of the Americas. The settlement of the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, was among the first to bring horses to the eastern seaboard. An analysis of domestic equid remains from Jamestown demonstrates intense processing and consumption of the first Jamestown horses during the “Starving Time” winter of 1609. Biomolecular analysis of these remains shows equids were used in transport activities, and identifies an adult domestic donkey with mixed European/West African ancestry, revealing an early example of transatlantic animal exchange. This was an interdisciplinary collaboration in which Oezle contributed with her expertise in strontium isotope variation across African landscapes, which was the key in identifying the Jamestown donkey as originating from western West Africa.