Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
'Of Fish and Men' ('De iasg agus dhaoine')
A Study of the Utilization of Marine Resources as Recovered from Selected Hebridean Archaeological Sites
Ruby N. Cerón-Carrasco
273pp. Includes 94 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 25 tables, 6 black and white plates, 5 Appendices of data.
This book interprets the exploitation of marine resources and the organisation of their uses during later prehistory in the Western Isles... More
208 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 13 tables, 30 figures, 85 plates, 29 graphs.
The village of Exning in the most westerly part of Suffolk is a small settlement appended to the north-west of the larger town of Newmarket. Despite its... More
A Comparison of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Burials of North Africa and Western Europe
Grim Investigations: Reaping the Dead
Emma Elder
268pp. Includes 8 data appendices, illustrated with figures and tables, With additional material online (Database files)
Archaeology has a unique and significant perspective to offer the territorial debate. In the 1970s Saxe and Goldstein argued, based on... More
A Composite View to the Past
A Methodological Integration of Zooarchaeology and Archaeological Geophysics at the Magdalenian Site of Verberie le Buis
Jason Thompson
Debates of alleged human modernity and archaism have dominated much of the recent Eurasian Paleolithic archaeological literature. Most... More
A Diachronic Study of Sus and Bos Exploitation in Britain from the Early Mesolithic to the Late Neolithic
Sarah Viner-Daniels
This study explores the changing relationship between humans and two important animals, pigs and cattle, during the Mesolithic and... More
A Study through Skull Morphology on the Diversity of Holocene African Populations in a Historical Perspective
Isabelle Ribot
237pp. Includes 40 figures, 45 tables, 21 appendices
The main objective of the present research is to explore through skull morphology some potential sources of biological diversity within... More
A Taphonomic Approach to the Re-analysis of the Human Remains from the Neolithic Chamber Tomb of Quanterness, Orkney
Rebecca Crozier
333 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 37 tables, 84 figures, 54 plates. Appendices: 8 tables, 68 figures, 4 plates
Megalithic tombs in Orkney have yielded some of the largest volumes of human remains in Neolithic Britain. However, discrete skeletons are lacking; the... More
A Zooarchaeological Study of the Haimenkou Site, Yunnan Province, China
Juan Wang
218 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 49 tables, 84 figures (15 in colour)
Archaeology of East Asia, 1
Haimenkou was an important location, with trade and cultural links connecting parts of modern Southeast Asia and northwestern China in ancient times.... More
Ambiente, sussistenza e articolazione sociale nell' Italia centrale tra Bronzo medio e Primo Ferro
Claudia Minniti
Italian with English summary
The present study analyses different faunal samples dated to the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age from both Latium and Abruzzi... More
An Application of the Linear Regression Technique for Determining Length and Weight of Six Fish Taxa
The role of selected fish species in Aleut paleodiet
Trevor J. Orchard
127pp. Includes 23 tables, 33 figures, drawings charts, 37 pages comparative tables as Appendix
The detailed estimation of the original live size of faunal specimens from archaeological assemblage provides a particularly useful,... More
An Appraisal of the Skulls and Dentition of Ancient Egyptians, Highlighting the Pathology and Speculating on the Influence of Diet and Environment
145pp. Illustrated throughout with figures and plates
When first studying Ancient Egyptian History, the author, a dental surgeon, was struck by the fact that, with the exception of a blind... More
Terry G. Powis, Sheldon Skaggs and George J. Micheletti. Foreword by Jaime J. Awe
272 pages, Illustrated in colour and black and white, 24 tables, 122 figures
Archaeology of the Maya, 4
This volume presents the results of 35 years of archaeological research at the Maya site of Pacbitun, located in west central Belize. The site was... More
An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom Volumes I and II
A completely updated and revised edition of Murray's Index of 1908 including an analysis of all new material published to date
Dilwyn Jones
1,067pp. Two volume set
Modern research of titles and epithets used in Ancient Egypt has made considerable advances since the publication of first listings by... More
An Investigation of the Common Cockle (Cerastoderma edule (L))
Collection practices at the kitchen midden sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark
Eva M. Laurie
321pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings and photograp
The aim of this work is to determine to what extent the exploitation of cockles changed across the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in... More
Ancient and Modern Bone Artefacts from America to Russia
Cultural, technological and functional signature
Alexandra Legrand-Pineau, Isabelle Sidéra and Natacha Buc, Eva David, Vivian Scheinsohn with the collaboration of Douglas V. Campana, Alice M. Choyke, Pam Crabtree and Elisabeth A. Stone
349pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
Animal Husbandry Regimes in Iron Age Britain
A comparative study of faunal assemblages from British Iron Age sites
Ellen Hambleton
162pp. Includes 50 figures, maps charts and graphs
The aim of this book is to further our understanding of Iron Age animal husbandry regimes in Britain by undertaking a comparative study... More
Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages
Perspectives across disciplines
Francisco de Asís García García, Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo and María Victoria Chico Picaza
This publication has its origin in the colloquium Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages held at the Faculty of Geography and History... More
Animals and People: Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug
Shaw Badenhorst, Peter Mitchell and Jonathan C. Driver
234pp. Illustrated throughout with figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs
This collection of papers is dedicated to Dr Ina Plug to celebrate her tremendous contributions to archaeozoology (or zooarchaeology) in... More
Animals, Economy and Status: Integrating Zooarchaeological and Historical Data in the Study of Dudley Castle, West Midlands (c.1100-1750)
240pp. Includes 161 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. With additional material online (three Appendices of metrical data).
This volume charts the changing human-animal relationship at one particular location, Dudley Castle, West Midlands, over several... More
Animals, Gods and Men from East to West
Papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi
Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca Dorna Metzger, Lucinda Dirven
219pp. Illustrated in black and white throughout
The 21 articles collected in this commemorative volume centre on animals in relation to men and gods. Many articles deal with... More
Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space
Alice M. Choyke and Gerhard Jaritz
217 pages, Illustrated throughout in black and white: 20 tables, 74 figures
Urban space constitutes a place where people and animals live together in close proximity with each other, creating changing landscapes of co-existence,... More
Another Tasmanian Paradox: Clothing and Thermal Adaptations in Aboriginal Australia
Ian Gilligan
138pp. Includes 71 figures, 28 tables. With CD
This work explores the nature and extent of the use of clothing in the pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal population. Anthropological... More
The British-Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta 2. Volume II: The Artefacts
Robin Coningham
738pp, Includes 25 maps, 51 tables, 58 plates including 4 pages of colour plates, 56 pages of figures, illustrations and drawings. Index
Society for South Asian Studies Monograph, 4
The site of Anuradhapura, NW Sri Lanka, is important, from two principal points of view. In the first place it has played a significant... More
Archaeobotanical investigations of plant cultivation and husbandry practices
at the Early Bronze Age settlement Küllüoba in West-Central Turkey: Considerations on environment, climate and economy
Özgür Çizer
280pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white: 58 tables, 227 figures (79 photographs), 13 maps
Archaeobotanical data is used as the basis for the investigations of the subsistence economy at the Early Bronze Age settlement Küllüoba in west-central... More