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Recent Advances in Archaeozoology
"This publication is one of the volumes of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (CAZ),...
Zooarchaeological research has great potential to investigate areas of interest to other archaeologists, such as diet, trade, ritual, spatial usage, r...
Fat has been cast as a villain in our modern, Western society, but for many economies, past and present, the availability of foods rich in fat could m...
A Zooarchaeological Approach
Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported,...
The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity
These 35 papers stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribut...
New Archaeozoological Approaches
It is no exaggeration to suggest that the domestication of animals was perhaps one of the most important developments in human history. It is a phenom...
This, the final title to be published from the sessions of the 2002 ICAZ conference, focuses on the role of man's best friend. As worker or companion,...
Molluscs in Former Environments of Human Behaviour
Papers bringing the study of molluscs into mainstream archaeology....
Archaeozoology in Wildlife Conservation and Heritage Management
The applications of zooarchaeological research can go far beyond the realms of the lab or the site report. These 18 papers are all concerned with the ...
Humans are known to exploit plant and animal resources for a variety of purposes. Subsistence is the most obvious of these, but there are also social ...
New Studies in Vertebrate Taphonomy
Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in West Greenland / Kerstin Pasda -- Magnitude of faunal accumulations by...
Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene
Recent genetic data showing that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans have made it clear that deeper insight into the behavioral differences betw...
This is a guide to the technical advances made over the last 20 years in the field of aging and sexing animal bones. The 18 papers examine the state o...
Current Research and Future Directions
Until recently, osteological studies into ancient diet and health have primarily focused upon human remains, with the result that the science is in it...
Non-dietary Use of Molluscs in Archaeological Settings : Proceedings of the Archaeomalacology Sessions at the 10th ICAZ Conference, Mexico City, 2006
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable momentum in the advancement of archaeomalacological research but there is still a lot of room for progress....
Archaeological, Biological and Historical Approaches in Archaeozoological Research
Ten papers from the 13th ICAZ International conference including research from wide-ranging geographical & chronological contexts: a range of methods ...
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Methods. A histological identification method for unburned and burned bone fragments: telling humans apart from horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs ...
Shells in the Archaeological Record
This publication is the volume is the proceedings of the ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group which took place at the 11th International Conference of...
Shell middens, fishes and birds ; edited by J. Clutton-Brook and C. Grigson
Rethinking Hunter-gatherer Complexity
The term "affluent-foragers" has traditionally described the socio-economic conditions of some coastal fisher-hunters. It implies a high standard of l...
Raw Materials and the Study of Worked Osseous Objects
A fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of the raw materials chosen to make them. In archaeological conte...