List of Figures List of Tables Note on Online Supplementary Material I. INTRODUCTION 1: Umberto Albarella: Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century: where we come from, where we are now, and where we are going II. EUROPE 2: Mietje Germonpre and Mikhail V. Sablin: Humans and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia 3: Katherine Boyle: The zooarchaeology of complexity and specialization during the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Europe: changing diversity and evenness 4: Lembi Lougas: Mesolithic hunting and fishing in the coastal and terrestrial environments of the eastern Baltic 5: Jean-Denis Vigne: Archaeozoological techniques and protocols for elaborating scenarios of early colonization and Neolithization of Cyprus 6: Joerg Schibler: Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic, and taphonomic relevance 7: Laszlo Bartosiewicz: Zooarchaeology in the Carpathian Basin and adjacent areas 8: Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou: Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols: animals in Later Bronze Age Greece 9: Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti: Changes in lifestyle in ancient Rome (Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition: the evidence from animal remains 10: Konrad Smiarowski, Ramona Harrison, Seth Brewington, Megan Hicks, Frank J. Feeley, Celine Dupont-Hebert, Brenda Prehal, George Hambrecht, James Woollett, and Thomas H. McGovern: Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian settlements in Iceland and Greenland: diverging pathways 11: Dale Serjeantson: Fishing, wildfowling, and marine mammal exploitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to Early Modern times 12: Simon J. M. Davis: Zooarchaeological evidence for Muslim improvement of sheep (Ovis aries) in Portugal 13: Finbar McCormick and Emily Murray: The zooarchaeology of Medieval Ireland 14: Terry O'Connor: Animals in urban life in Medieval to Early Modern England 15: Mark Maltby: From bovid to beaver: mammal exploitation in Medieval northwest Russia III. ASIA 16: Joris Peters, Nadja Poellath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle: The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia 17: Canan Cak)irlar and Levent Atici: Patterns of animal exploitation in western Turkey: from Palaeolithic molluscs to Byzantine elephants 18: Ajita K. Patel and Richard H. Meadow: South Asian contributions to animal domestication and pastoralism: bones, genes, and archaeology 19: Li Liu and Xiaolin Ma: The zooarchaeology of Neolithic China 20: Norbert Benecke: Subsistence economy, animal domestication, and herd management in prehistoric central Asia (Neolithic - Iron Age) 21: Hitomi Hongo: Introduction of domestic animals to the Japanese archipelago 22: Charles F. W. Higham: Farming, social change, and state formation in south-east Asia 23: Justin E. Lev-Tov and Sarah Whitcher Kansa: The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant IV. AFRICA 24: Ina Plug: Middle and Later Stone Age hunters and their prey in southern Africa 25: Diane Gifford-Gonzalez: Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa: emergence and ramifications 26: Louis Chaix: Cattle, a major component of the Kerma culture (Sudan) 27: Shaw Badenhorst: The zooarchaeology of Iron Age farmers from southern Africa 28: Veerle Linseele: The exploitation of aquatic resources in Holocene West Africa 29: Salima Ikram: Animals in ancient Egyptian religion: belief, identity, power, and economy 30: Michael MacKinnon: Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa 31: Adam R. Heinrich: Historical zooarchaeology of colonialism, mercantilism, and indigenous dispossession: the Dutch East India Company's meat industry at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa V. NORTH AMERICA 32: Gregory G. Monks: Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America 33: Rebecca M. Dean: Fauna and the emergence of intensive agricultural economies in the United States Southwest 34: John D. Speth: 13,000 years of communal bison hunting in western North America 35: Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales and Eduardo Corona-M.: Advances in hunter-gatherer research in Mexico: archaeozoological contributions 36: Tanya M. Peres: The exploitation of aquatic environments by the Olmec and Epi-Olmec 37: Heather A. Lapham: Tracking the trade in animal pelts in early historic eastern North America 38: Elizabeth J. Reitz: Animal use at early colonies on the south-eastern coast of the United States 39: Kitty F. Emery: Zooarchaeology of the Maya VI. SOUTH AMERICA 40: Peter W. Stahl: Zooarchaeological approaches to Pre-Columbian archaeology in the neotropics of northwestern South America 41: Daniela Klokler: Zooarchaeology of Brazilian shell mounds 42: Guillermo L. Mengoni Gonalons: Camelid hunting and herding in Inca times: a view from the South of the empire 43: Luis A. Borrero: Forests, steppes, and coastlines: zooarchaeology and the prehistoric exploitation of Patagonian habitats VII. OCEANIA 44: Matthew Leavesley: Themes in the Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Melanesia 45: Richard Cosgrove and Jillian Garvey: Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in southwest Tasmania 46: Ian Smith: Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand 47: Melinda S. Allen: Spatial variability and human eco-dynamics in central-east Polynesian fisheries Mauro Rizzetto and Umberto Albarella: A Glossary of Zooarchaeological Methods Notes on Contributors Index