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• Introduction / Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson and Paul Halstead
• Tony Legge - a bibliography
• Part I: Bone man : the career and influence of Tony Legge. 1. Tony Legge (1939-2013) / Robin Dennell ; 2. Tony Legge and continuing education in archaeology at the University of London 1974-2004 / Harvey Sheldon ; 3. 'The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea...' : Tony Legge and the origins and spread of animal husbandry / Andrew M.T. Moore ; 4. Reflections in a dustbin : froth flotation and the origins of rice cultivation in Southeast Asia / Charles Higham ; 5. How the pig parts got from Warrago to Web / James F. O'Connell ; 6. Tony Legge and the Blick Mead Project / David Jacques
• Part II: Zooarchaeological method and theory. 7. Bone measurements and body weights from some Australian feral pigs / A.J. Legge ; 8. A morphometric investigation of late Pleistocene and Holocene humeri of aoudad (Barbary sheep: Ammotragus lervia, Pallas 1777) recovered from the Haua Fteah, Cyrenaica, Libya / A.J. Legge and C.M. Stimpson ; 9. Towards a metrical distinction between sheep and goat astragali / Simon J.M. Davis ; 10. Down among the dead men : wrong end epidemiology and its implications for palaeopathology / Tony Waldron ; 11. A typology of dog deposition in archaeological contexts / Angela Perri ; 12. The boundaries of the world : the archaeology of humans and animals in southern South America / A. Sebastián Muñoz and Mariana Mondini ; 13. Zooarchaeology in Britain : a partial history / Dale Serjeantson
• Part III: The zooarchaeology of milking controversy. 14. Calf mortality and milking : was Tony Legge right after all? / Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou ; 15. Age-at-death in traditional Cypriot sheep and goat husbandry : implications for zooarchaeology / Angelos Hadjikoumis ; 16. A calf's eye view of milk production : Tony Legge's contribution to dairy husbandry studies / Rosalind E. Gillis ; 17. Rethinking dairying in the Irish Iron Age : evidence from Dún Ailinne / Pam J. Crabtree ; 18. Answering zooarchaeological questions from the analysis of animal bones and organic pottery residues : a critical comparison / Alan K. Outram ; 19. Salt, cows, milk, and the earliest farmers of Central Europe / Peter Bogucki
• Part IV: Farmers that hunt. 20. Hunting by farmers : ecological implications / Jonathan C. Driver and Shaw Badenhorst ; 21. Evaluating seasonality of birth in gazelles in the Middle Euphrates Valley : confirming ethological assumptions in the Abu Hureyra model / Carlos Tornero, Marie Balasse, Joël Ughetto-Monfrin, Miquel Molist and Maria Saña ; 22. Hunting and herding in the Middle Neolithic of central Serbia : a zooarchaeological analysis of Stragari-Šljivik, Serbia / Haskel J. Greenfield
• Part V: Prehistoric Britain. 23. To the Upper Lake : Star Carr revisited - by birchbark canoe / Peter Rowley-Conwy ; 24. The first farmers in Britain and Ireland - whence and whither and how? : some reflections / Roger Mercer ; 25. Integration of cereal cultivation and animal husbandry in the British Neolithic : the evidence of charred plant remains from timber buildings at Lismore Fields / Glynis Jones and Amy Bogaard ; 26. Taphonomy and cultural selection : Tony Legge and the Neolithic pits beside the Dorset Cursus / Richard Bradley ; 27. Humans and animals in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age Dorset / Mark Maltby ; 28. Reconsideration of the 'Mesolithic harpoon' from Westward Ho!, Devon / Sonia O'Connor and Terry O'Connor
• Part VI: Continental Europe and the Mediterranean. 29. Revisiting the animal remains from Neolithic Kalavasos Tenta, Cyprus / Paul Croft ; 30. Neolithic subsistence at Vela Špilja on the island of Lošinj, Croatia / Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch ; 31. Using faunal remains to evaluate social stratification in the Middle Iron Age : the fortified village of Mas Castellar de Pontós, northeast Iberian Peninsula / Lídia Colominas ; 32. The economy of medieval and post-medieval Vyborg, Russia, in its historical context / Alexei Kasparov ; 33. Dear, oh deer! : the adventures of compiling comparative collections : a cervid skeleton allegedly from Egypt's Eastern Desert / Salima Ikram and Louise Bertini.

Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour - the animal and plant remains are a means to this end. The 33 papers present a wide array of topics covering many areas of archaeological interest. Aspects of method and theory, animal bone identification, human palaeopathology, prehistoric animal utilisation in South America, and the study of dog cemeteries are covered. The long-running controversy over the milking of animals and the use of dairy products by humans is discussed as is the ecological impact of hunting by farmers, with studies from Serbia and Syria. For Britain, coverage extends from Mesolithic Star Carr, via the origins of agriculture and the farmers of Lismore Fields, through considerations of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Outside Britain, papers discuss Neolithic subsistence in Cyprus and Croatia, Iron Age society in Spain, Medieval and post-medieval animal utilisation in northern Russia, and the claimed finding of a modern red deer skeleton in Egypt's Eastern Desert. In exploring these themes, this volume celebrates the life and work of Tony Legge (zoo)archaeologist and teacher.
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• 1. Zooarchaeology in the Neotropics: an introduction / Mariana Mondini, A. Sebastián Muñoz, and Pablo M. Fernández
• 2. Pinniped capture and processing : a comparative analysis from Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) / María Paz Martinoli and Martín Vázquez
• 3. Use of marine fauna and tool stones in the south of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina) during the middle and late Holocene / Romina Frontini and Cristina Bayón
• 4. Shell mounds of the southeast coast of Brazil : recovering information on past malacological biodiversity / Edson Pereira Silva, Sara Christina Pádua, Rosa Cristina Corrêa Luz Souza, and Michelle Rezende Duarte
• 5. Faunal subsistence resources in the Cañada Honda locality (northeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) / Paula D. Escosteguy and Mónica C. Salemme
• 6. Space use patterns and resource exploitation of shell middens from the Río de La Plata coast (ca. 6000-2000 years BP), Uruguay / Laura Beovide, Sergio Martínez, and Walter Norbis
• 7. Use of animals during the mid-archaic and the initial period in Pernil Alto, a site in the Palpa valleys, southern coast of Peru / Carmen Rosa Cardoza, Johny Isla, Markus Reindel, Enrique Angulo, Hermann Gorbahn, and Lucía Watson Jiménez
• 8. Taphonomy of surface archaeological bone assemblages in coastal Patagonia: a case study / A. Sebastián Muñoz
• 9. The fossorial faunal record at the Beltrán Onofre Banegas-Lami Hernandez archaeological site (Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina): a taphonomic approach / Luis Manuel del Papa, Luciano De Santis, and José Togo
• 10. Archaeological collagen fingerprinting in the Neotropics : protein survival in 6000 year old dwarf deer remains from Pedro González Island, Pearl Islands, Panama / Michael Buckley, Richard G. Cooke, María Fernanda Martínez, Fernando Bustamante, Máximo Jiménez, Alexandra Lara, and Juan Guillermo Martín
• 11. Osteometrics of south-central Andean wild camelids : new standards / Mariana Mondini and A. Sebastián Muñoz.

This volume offers an up-to-date and broad perspective of the archaeology of human-animal interactions through time in the Neotropical Biogeographic Region, ranging from southern North America to southern South America. The region has a rich and singular biotic history. The collection of works included in the volume -originally presented at the Second Academic Meeting of the NZWG-ICAZ - describes some of the instances of the diverse interactions of human and faunal populations in such a setting and the particular properties characterizing the derived archaeofaunal record. Understanding the zooarchaeological imprint of human insertion and evolution in this context represents an opportunity for improving our knowledge on the many ways modern humans have dealt with the colonization of the whole globe, and on the varied forms of organization they assumed within such diverse environments. The topics covered in this volume shed light on different and complementary aspects of the state of the art in zooarchaeological research in the Neotropics, and reveal how much Neotropical zooarchaeology has been growing in the past few decades. Several chapters focus on marine resources, covering a broad range of the diversity found in the Neotropical coastal environments. Another set of chapters deals primarily with inland Neotropical animals -including terrestrial, riverine/estuarine and avian faunas- and also with varying societal organizations. Natural formation processes in Neotropical environments are also dealt with in this collection of works. Finally, Neotropical faunas also entail unique methodological challenges, and some chapters provide new information from this perspective. Altogether, these contributions help grasp how unique human-animal interactions have been in the Neotropics, and yet how much can be learnt from them even for other settings and other times.
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• Contributors Acknowledgements
• Part 1. Thinking with Animals
• 1. People with Animals: A Perspective of Ethnozooarchaeology Lee Broderick
• 2. What Can the Fauna Tell Us of Neanderthal Subsistence Behaviour? Benjamin Collins
• 3. Killing (Constructed) Horses - Interspecies Elders, Empathy and Emotion, and the Pazyryk Horse Sacrifices G. Argent
• Part 2. Living with Animals
• 4. Manure: Valued by Farmers, Under-Valued by Zooarchaeologists Lee Broderick & Michael Wallace
• 5. `Seasonal Rhythms' of a Rural Kurdish Village: Ethnozooarchaeological Research in Bestansur, Iraq R. Bendrey, J. Whitlam, S. Elliot, K. Rauf Aziz, R. Matthews & W. Matthews
• 6. Canis Pastoralis and Maremmano-Abruzzese: Zooarchaeological and Ethnographic Parallels in Ancient and Modern Livestock Guardian Dogs Elan N. Love
• 7. The Killing Season: Ethnographic and Zooarchaeological Perspectives on Residential Mobility in Bronze Age Mongolia Jean-Luc Houle
• Part 3. Subsisting with Animals
• 8. Ethnozooarchaeology of Professional Butchering in the Mahas Region, Sudan Elizabeth R. Arnold & Diane Lyons
• 9. To Fish, or not to Fish? Using Observations of Recent Hunter-Gatherer Fishing in the Interpretation of Late Pleistocene Fish Bone Assemblages Hannah Russ Reinterpreting the use of Garfish (Lepisosteidae) in the Archaeological Record of the American Southeast T. Peres & A. Deter-Wolf
• Part 4. People with Animals
• 10. People with Animals - Perhaps the End of the Beginning? Terry O'Connor.
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People with Animals emphasises the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take. The types of relationship studied include the importance of manure to farming societies, dogs as livestock guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, butchery, symbolism and food. Examples are drawn from the Pleistocene to the present day and from the Altai Mountains, Ethiopia, Iraq, Italy, Mongolia and North America. The 11 papers work from the basis that animals are an integral part of society and that past society is the object of most archaeological enquiry. Discussion papers explore this topic and use the case-studies presented in other contributions to suggest the importance of ethnozooarchaeology not just to archaeology but also to anthrozoology. A further contribution to archaeological theory is made by an argument for the validity of ethnozooarchaeology derived models to Neandertals. The book makes a compelling case for the importance of human-animal relations in the archaeological record and demonstrates why the information contained in this record is of significance to specialists in other disciplines.
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• Preface / Martin K. Jones
• Introduction / Manon Savard, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti
• Part I. Methodologies in Archaeobotany
• Sample-Size Estimation and Inter-Assemblage Quantification in Archaeobotany / Gyoung-Ah Lee
• Regional Exchanges in South Eastern Arabia During the Late Pre-Islamic Period : The Contribution of Phytolith Analysis of Ceramic Thin Sections from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) / Luc Vrydaghs, Paul De Paepe, Kris Rutten, and Ernie Haerinck
• Examining Agriculture and Climate Change in Antiquity : Practical and Theoretical Considerations / Alexia Smith
• Part II. Case Studies in Archaeobotany and Vegetation History
• Swahili Food Production : An Interim Archaeotanical Report from Pemba Island, Tanzania, Seventh through Sixteen Centuries AD / Sarah C. Walshaw
• Plant-Food Subsistence in Context : An Example from Epipalaeolithic Southwest Anatolia / Danièle Martinoli
• Vegetation Proxy Data and Climate Reconstruction : Examples from West Asia / Naomi F. Miller
• The Significance of Prehistoric Weed Floras for the Reconstruction of Interrelations of Environment and Crop Husbandry Practices During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1600-700 BC) in the Near East / Simone Riehl
• Part III. Social Archaeobotany
• Historical Aspects of Early Plant Cultivation in the Uplands of Eastern North America / Kristen J. Gremillion
• Routine Activities, Tertiary Refuse, and Labour Organisation : Social Inferences from Everyday Archaeobotany / Dorian Q. Fuller, Chris Stevens, and Meriel McClatchie
• Of Crops and Food : A Social Perspective on the Agricultural Tradition of the Harappan Civilisation / Marco Madella
• Anthracological Research in the South-Southeastern Brazilian Coast : Palaeoenvironment and Plant Exploitation of Sambaqui Moundbuilders / Rita Scheel-Ybert and Maria Dulce Gaspar
• Part IV. Genetics in Archaeobotany
• Rice of Asian Origin / Yo-Ichiro Sato
• A Review on the Research on the Origin of Six-Row Barley / Ken-ichi Tanno
• Maize Cob Phytoliths as Indicators of Genetics and Environmental Conditions / Linda Scott-Cummings.

Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food. Exploring these and other important plants used for millennia by humans, Ancient Plants and People presents a wide-angle view of the current state of archaeobotanical research, methods, and theories.Food has a public and private role, and it permeates the life of all people in a society. Food choice, production, and distribution probably represent the most complex indicators of social life, and thus a study of foods consumed by ancient peoples reveals many clues about their lifestyles. But in addition to yielding information about food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption, plant remains recovered from archaeological sites offer precious insights on past landscapes, human adaptation to climate change, and the relationship between human groups and their environment. Revealing important aspects of past human societies, these plant-driven insights widen the spectrum of information available to archaeologists as we seek to understand our history as a biological and cultural species.Often answers raise more questions. As a result, archaeobotanists are constantly pushed to reflect on the methodological and theoretical aspects of their discipline. The contributors discuss timely methodological issues and engage in debates on a wide range of topics from plant utilization in hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists to uses of ancient DNA. Ancient Plants and People provides a global perspective on archaeobotanical research, particularly on the sophisticated interplay between the use of plants and their social or environmental context.
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• 1. Paleoethnobotanical Method and Theory in the Twenty-First Century / John M. Marston, Christina Warinner, and Jade D'Alpoim Guedes
• Part I Formation Processes
• 2. Formation Processes of the Macrobotanical Record / Daphne E. Gallagher
• 3. Formation and Taphonomic Processes Affecting Starch Granules / Amanda G. Henry
• 4. Formation Processes of Pollen and Phytoliths / Deborah M. Pearsall
• Part II Recovery, Identification, and Data Management
• 5. Sampling Strategies in Paleoethnobotanical Analysis / Jade D'Alpoim Guedes and Robert Spengler
• 6. Recovering Macrobotanical Remains: Current Methods and Techniques / China P. Shelton and China P. Shelton
• 7. Laboratory Analysis and Identification of Plant Macroremains / Gayle Fritz and Mark Nesbitt
• 8. Digitizing the Archaeobotanical Record / Christina Warinner and Jade D'Alpoim Guedes
• Part III Quantification and Analysis
• 9. Ratios and Simple Statistics in Paleoethnobotanical Analysis: Data Exploration and Hypothesis Testing / John M. Marston
• 10. The Use of Multivariate Statistics within Archaeobotany / Alexia Smith
• 11. Analysis and Interpretation of Intrasite Variability in Paleoethnobotanical Remains: A Consideration and Application of Methods at the Ravensford Site, North Carolina / Amber M. VanDerwarker, Jennifer V. Alvarado, and Paul Webb
• 12. Intersite Variation within Archaeobotanical Charred Assemblages: A Case Study Exploring the Social Organization of Agricultural Husbandry in Iron Age and Roman Britain / Chris J. Stevens
• Part IV Integration of Paleoethnobotanical Data
• 13. Peopling the Environment: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Socioecological Systems Incorporating Paleoclimatology and Geoarchaeology / Timothy C. Messner and Gary E. Stinchcomb
• 14. From the Ground Up: Advances in Stable Isotope-Based Paleodietary Inference / Christina Warinner
• 15. Ancient Biomolecules from Archaeobotanical Remains / Nathan Wales, Kenneth Andersen, and Enrico Cappellini
• 16. A Landscape Context for Paleoethnobotany: The Contribution of Aerial and Satellite Remote Sensing / Jesse Casana
• Part V Interpretation
• 17. Human Behavioral Ecology and Paleoethnobotany / Kristen J. Gremillion
• 18. Documenting Human Niche Construction in the Archaeological Record / Bruce D. Smith
• 19. Paleoethnobotanical Analysis, Post-Processing / Shanti Morell-Hart.

Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene. One of the main objectives of this book is to describe the processes that underlie the formation of the archaeobotanical archive and the ultimate composition of the archaeobotanical records, being the data that are sampled and identified from this immense archive. Our understanding of these processes benefits from a knowledge of plant ecology and traditional agricultural practices and food processing. This handbook summarizes the basic ecological principles that relate to the reconstruction of former vegetations and of agricultural practices in particular. We hope this book will help palaeobotanists, environmental archaeologists, and colleagues from related disciplines optimize inferences based on what we could term old-style archaeobotany. And we hope that our observations will serve as an eye-opener and improve future research, not only as it is practised in our laboratories, but also as it is practised in the field.
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• 1. Minerals: rock and stone-- pigments, abrasives, gemstones.a. The chemical elements.b. Minerals and mineraloids.c. Rock and stone.d. The study of archaeological stone.e. The chemical analysis of archaeological materials.f. The provenance of archaeological materials.g. The chronology of archaeological materials.h. Pigments.i. Abrasives.j. Gemstones.i. Cutting and polishing gemstones.2. Lithics: Flint and obsidian.a. Quartz and flint.b. Obsidian.c. Use wear analysis.3. Sand: glass, glaze, enamel.a. Glass, glaze and enamel.b. Glass.c. Glassmaking.d. Ancient glass studies.e. The decay of glass.4. Secondary rocks: building stone, brick, cement, mortar.a. Building stone.b. Cement.c. The study of ancient cements.5. Ores: metals and alloys.a. Native metals.b. Metalliferous ores.c. Mining.d. Ore dressing.e. Smelting.f. Metal refining.g. Alloys.h. The metals and alloys of antiquity.i. The deterioration of metals and alloys - Corrosion.j. The study of archaeological metals and alloys.6. Sediments and soils.a. Sediments, oxygen isotopes and ancient temperatures.b. Soil.7. Clay: Pottery and other ceramic materials.a. Primary clay.b. Secondary clay.c. Clay and ceramic materials.d. Ceramic materials.e. Making ceramics.f. Common ceramic materials
• .g. The study of ancient pottery.8. The biosphere: Organic and biological substances.a. Living organisms and cells.b. Biological matter: organic and bioinorganic substances.c. Ancient biological materials.d. Dating organic materials.9. Carbohydrates: wood, gums, resins.a. Wood.b. Gums.c. Resins.d. Carbohydrates, isotopes and the study of ancient diets.10. Lipids: oils, fats and waxes.a. Oils.b. Fats.c. Waxes.d. Soap.e. Ancient lipids.11. Proteins: skin and hide, leather, glue.a. Animal skin.b. Skin and hide.c. Leather.d. Glue.e. Dating ancient proteins - amino acid racemization dating.12. The nucleic acids: Human traits-- genetics and evolution.a. DNA after death.b. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR).c. Ancient DNA studies.13. Fibers: yarn, textiles and cordage-- writing materials.a. Fibers.b. Textile and cordage fibers.c. Vegetable fibers.d. Animal fibers.e. Inorganic fibers.f. The study of archaeological fibers.g. Writing materials.14. Dyes and dyeing.a. Stains and staining.b. The dyeing process.c. Mordants.d. The nature of dyes.e. Ancient dyes.f. The identification and characterization of ancient dyes and mordants.15. Bioinorganic materials-- bone, ivory, shell, phytoliths.a. Bone.b. Teeth.c. Ivory.d. Horn.e. Antler.f. Shell.g. Archaeological bone.h. Bone, stable isotopes and ancient diets.16. Some ancient remains: mummies, fossils, coprolites.a. Mummies and mummification.b. Embalming.c. Fossils and fossilization.d. Animal excretions, coprolites.17. The environment and the decay of archaeological materials.a. Air and the atmosphere.b. The composition of the atmosphere.c. Water and the hydrosphere.d. Pollution.e. Air pollutants.f. Water pollutants.g. The interaction of materials with the environment.h. Temperature effects.i. Sunlight.j. Oxygen and ozone.k. Water.l. Air pollutants.m. The deterioration of some archaeological materials.18. The authentication of antiquities.a. Technical and scientific and methods of authentication.b. Some authentication studies.
• Appendix I. The Chemical Elements.
• Appendix II. Chronometric Dating Methods: Selection criteria.
• Appendix III. Symbols, constants, units and equivalencies.Glossary.Bibliography.
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The chemical study of archaeological materials, "Archaeological Chemistry, Second Edition" is about the application of the chemical sciences to the study of ancient man and his material activities. The text of the book centers on the use of chemical methods, but also refers to the contributions of physics, biology, and genetics to archaeological research. Subjects discussed in the book include the determination of the nature of ancient materials, their provenance and age, the technologies used for the production of man-made materials, and the analysis of ancient human and animal remains (such as bone, dried blood, and coprolites), which yields information on ancient diets, kinship, habitancy, and migratory patterns. New developments in analytical chemistry and in related disciplines, which have contributed to archaeological research since the first edition of the book was published, are dealt with in this edition, which also includes: updated information on the study of the nature, age, and provenance of ancient materials; new sections on organic, biological and genetic studies; glossary; and, extensive bibliography. The book is intended primarily for archaeologists, physical anthropologists and students of archaeology and physical anthropology, but will also be of use to conservators, curators, and art historians. Natural scientists reading it will become acquainted with advances in archaeological research which were made possible only by the application of chemical, physical, and biological methods and techniques.
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• History, ethnography, and archaeology of the Coastal Salish wooly-dog (Russell L Barsh et al)-- A dwarf hound skeleton from a Romano-British grave at York Road, Leicester (Ian L Baxter)-- Food, rituals? The exploitation of dogs from Eretria during the Helladic and Hellenistic periods (Isabelle Chenal-Velarde)-- Artemis Pit? Dog remains from a well in the ancient town of Siracusa (Salvatore Chilardi)-- In sickness and in health: Care for an arthritic Maltese dog from the Roman cemetery of Yasmina, Carthage (Michael MacKinnon and Kyle Belanger)-- What did Bronze Age dogs eat? Coprolitic analyses (Liina Maldre)-- What do dogs mean, what do dogs do? (Michael Atwood Mason)-- Dog sacrifice in the ancient world: A ritual passage? (Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin and Claudia Minniti)-- Bronze Age dogs from graves in Border, The Netherlands and Dimitri, Greece (Wietske Prummel)-- An ethnoarchaeological study of chase hunting with gundogs by the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan (Atsushi Nobayashi)-- Variability in medieval dogs from Hungary (Marta Tassi)-- Companions from the oldest times: Dogs in ancient Greek literature, iconography and osteological testimony (Katerina Trantalidou)-- Dog-wolf hybrid biotype reconstruction from the archaeological city of Teoihuacan in prehistoric central Mexico (Ral Valadez et al)-- The sacrifice of dogs in ancient Italy (Barbara Wilkens)-- The evidentiary dog: A review of anthrozoological cases and archaeological studies (Bonnie C Yates and Janice Koler-Matznick).
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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, the dog has enjoyed a unique relationship with its human master, and the depth and variety of the papers in this fascinating collection is a testament to the interest that this symbiotic arrangement holds for many scholars working in archaeology today.
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• New Directions in Archaeological Chemistry-- Analysis of Ninth Century Thai Glass-- Chemical Chronology of Turquoise Blue Glass Trade Beads from the Lac-Saint-Jean Region of Quebec-- Dating Flint Artifacts with Electron Spin Resonance: Problems and Prospects-- Provenance Studies on Easter Island Obsidian: An Archaeological Application-- Chrono-Cultural Technique Based on the Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Copper-Based Artifacts from the "Contact" Period of Northeastern North America-- Electron Microprobe and Neutron Activation Analysis of Gold Artifacts from a 1000 A.D. Peruvian Gravesite-- Chemical Composition of Tiberian Asses, 15-23 A.D-- Copper-Based Synthetic Medieval Blue Pigments-- Archaeological Applications of Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry-- Studies of Soils from an Aleutian Island Site-- Chemical Analysis of Residues in Floors and the Reconstruction of Ritual Activities at the Templo Mayor, Mexico-- Application of Multimolecular Biomarker Techniques to the Identification of Fecal Material in Archaeological Soils and Sediments-- Investigation of Fiber Mineralization Using Fourier Transform Infrared Microscopy-- X-ray Diffractometric Analyses of Microstructure of Mineralized Plant Fibers-- Clues to the Past: Further Development of the Comparative Plant Fiber Collection-- Updating Recent Studies on the Shroud of Turin-- A Re-evaluation of the Radiocarbon Date of the Shroud of Turin Based on Biofractionation of Carbon Isotopes and a Fire-Simulating Model-- Factors That Affect the Apparent Radiocarbon Age of Textiles-- Analysis of Cellulose Chemial Modification: A Potentially Promising Technique for Characterizing Archaeological Textiles-- Historico-Chemical Analysis of Plant Dyestuffs Used in Textiles from Ancient Israel-- Thermoluminescent Analysis of Burned Bone: Assessing the Problems-- Trace Elements in Bone as Paleodietary Indicators-- An Electron Microprobe Evaluation of Diagenetic Alteration in Archaeological Bone-- Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen, Bone Apatite, and Tooth Enamel in the Reconstruction of Human Diet: A Case Study from Cuello, Belize-- Amino Acid Racemization and the Effects of Microbial Diagenesis-- Ancient DNA in Texas Rock Paintings-- Ancient Nucleic Acids in Prehispanic Mexican Populations-- Radiocarbon Dating of Ancient Rock Paintings-- Radiocarbon Calibration and the Peopling of North America-- Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Measurement of Submilligram Samples.
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Presents the archaeological chemistry of pre-Columbian North America. Introduces new directions in analysis of ancient textiles such as the Shroud of Turin. Explains the use of tandem instrumentation to reach lower detection limits in analysis of substances of archaeological importance. Presents the archaeological chemistry of biochemical molecules, particularly in DNA. Provides applications of statistical techniques to suites of archaeological substrate data.
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