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This publication is one of the volumes of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), which was held in Paris (France) 23rd-28th August 2010.

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Author:   Christine Lefèvre
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   2354
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.081kg
ISBN:  

9781407309408

ISBN 10:   1407309404
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   15 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1) A histological identification method for unburned and burned bone fragments: Telling humans apart from horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs (S. Cuijpers); 2) Zoogenic deposits in rock shelters from the Old World (experience for palaeoecological purposes) (A.B. Savinetsky et al.); 3) Age estimation of juvenile guanaco (Lama guanicoe) individuals using diaphyseal long bone length (G.L. L'Heureux and C. Kaufmann); 4) Sex, Breed or Rearing Conditions? A Multivariate Approach to Assessing Shape Variations in Mediaeval Cattle Metapodials from Bern, Switzerland (A. Rehazek and M. Nussbaumer); 5) Sheep on the Hills: Complexities of decision making in Saxon England (Matilda Holmes); 6) Household wastes and bone craft activity in Strasbourg (France) in the 15th century (B. Clavel and S. Frère); 7)Animal husbandry in the Bronze Age Alpine settlement ""Savognin - Padnal"", Switzerland: a preliminary study (Miki Boppito); 8) Noble Meals instead of abstinence? A faunal assemblage from the Monastery of Norden, Northern Germany (H.C. Kuchelmanns); 9) Thefauna from the Gravettian levels of Roccia San Sebastiano Cave (Mondragone, Caserta, Italy) (F.D. Ruiu et al.); 10) Reconstruction of the economical and social features of Su Coddu, an Eneolithic settlement in Sardinia based on animal remains (V. Farina et al.); 11) Faunal exploitation and animal hard tissue manufacturing during the Middle-Recent Bronze Age in the Verona area: the site of Bovolone (Verona, Italy) (G. Petrucci et al.); 12) Faunal remains from Sassari (Sardinia, Italy). An urban archaeozoological case study (E. Grassi); 13) Preliminary remarks on the faunal assemblage of the unique Neolithic lakeside settlement of Greece: Dispilio (prefecture of Kastoria) (E. Samartzidou); 14) The fish from Zamostje and their importance for the last hunter-gatherers of the Russian Plain (Mesolithic-Neolithic) (V. Radu and N. Desse-Berset); 15) An amazing discovery at Arslantepe (East Anatolia): unusual find of a cheetah in an EBA III level (G. Siracusano); 16) Tell Afis (Syria): ritual meals and foundationceremonies. Findings from the 2009-2010 excavation campaign (G. Carenti); 17) Seasonal Patterns of Resource Use in Temperate Estuaries: A Case Study from the Late Prehistoric Period on St. Catherine's Island, Georgia, USA (S. Bergh); 18) Using Animal Remains to Reconstruct Ancient Landscapes and Climate in the Central and Southern Maya Lowlands (K.F. Emery and E.K. Thornton); 19) Butchery evidence on rodent bones from archaeological sites in the Pampean Region (Argentina) (P. Escosteguy and M. Salemme); 20) Broadening the knowledge on the exploitation of fauna at Cabo Virgenes, Patagonia Argentina, during the Late Holocene (G.L. L'Heureux et al.); 21) Remarks on the biodiversity of marine molluscs from late Holocene Brazilian shell mounds (R.C.C.L. Souza); 22) The site Geribá II, Buzios, Rio de Janeiro. Understanding an Ancient Shell Mound from Archaeological, Zooarchaeological and Geological Perspectives (M.C. Tenorio)."

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