Digital Zooarchaeology: State of the art, challenges, prospects and synergies

•The article provides a snapshot of the current state of art, the methods and digital tools being employed in the digitisation of animal remains.•Digital technologies have the capacity to democratise science by making knowledge available to academic and non-academic audiences.•Digital twins are fundamental in Zooarchaeology because they allow us to explore new methods and approaches (e.g. 3D Geometric Morphometrics) that do not require access to the physical object.•The article raises some of the challenges that the international zooarchaeological community is facing in the era of Linked Open Data, including management, archiving, curation, storage, dissemination and communication of digital data to the scientific world and the wider public.•The article calls for a better coordination and collaboration between Digital Archaeologists and Zooarchaeologists.