Includes bibliographical references and index.

Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa / Michael MacKinnon -- Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession : the Dutch East India Company's meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa / Adam R. Heinrich -- Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest Coast of North America / Gregory G. Monks -- Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States Southwest / Rebecca M. Dean -- 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America / John D. Speth -- Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico : archaeozoological contributions / Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales and Eduardo Corona-M. --The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec / Tanya M. Peres -- Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America / Heather A. Lapham -- Animal use at early colonies on the southeastern coast of the United States / Elizabeth J. Reitz -- Zooarchaeology of the Maya / Kitty F. Emery -- Zooarchaeological approaches to pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of northwestern South America / Peter W. Stahl -- Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell-mounds / Daniela Klokler -- Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times : a view from the south of the empire / Guillermo L. Mengoni Goñalons -- Forests, steppes, and coastlines : zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats / Luis A. Borrero -- Themes in the zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Melanesia / Matthew Leavesley -- Behavioural inferences from late Pleistocene Aboriginal Australia : seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in southwest Tasmania / Richard Cosgrove and Jillian Garvey -- Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand / Ian W.G. Smith -- Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central East Polynesian fisheries / Melinda S. Allen -- A glossary of zooarchaeological methods / Mauro Rizzetto and Umberto Albarella.

Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century : where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going / Umberto Albarella -- Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia / Mietje Germonpré and Mikhail V. Sablin -- The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe : changing diversity and evenness / Katherine Boyle -- Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic / Lembi Lõugas -- Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonization and Neolithization of Cyprus / Jean-Denis Vigne -- Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland : economic, ecologic, and taphonomic relevance / Jörg Schibler -- Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas / László Bartosiewicz -- Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols : animals in later Bronze Age Greece / Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou -- Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition : the evidence from animal remains / Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti -- Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland : diverging pathways / Konrad Smiarowski, Ramona Harrison, Seth Brewington, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Céline Dupont-Hébert, Brenda Prehal, George Hambrecht, James Woollett, and Thomas H. McGovern -- Fishing, wildfowling, and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to early modern times / Dale Serjeantson -- Zooarchaeological evidence for Muslim improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal / Simon J.M. Davis -- The zooarchaeology of medieval Ireland / Finbar McCormick and Emily Murray -- Animals in urban life in medieval to early modern England / Terry O'Connor -- From bovid to beaver : mammal exploitation in medieval northwest Russia / Mark Maltby -- The emergence of livestock husbandry in early Neolithic Anatolia / Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle -- Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey : from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants / Canan Çakirlar and Levent Atici -- South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism : bones, genes, and archaeology / Ajita K. Patel and Richard H. Meadow -- The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China / Li Liu and Xiaolin Ma -- Subsistence economy, animal domestication, and herd management in prehistoric Central Asia (Neolithic-Iron Age) / Norbert Benecke -- Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago / Hitomi Hongo -- Farming, social change, and state formation in Southeast Asia / Charles F.W. Higham -- The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant / Justin E. Lev-Tov and Sarah Whitcher Kansa -- Middle and later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa / Ina Plug -- Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa : emergence and ramifications / Diane Gifford-Gonzalez -- Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan) / Louis Chaix -- The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa / Shaw Badenhorst -- The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa / Veerle Linseele -- Animals in ancient Egyptian religion : belief, identity, power, and economy / Salima Ikram.

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