Product Description: When reconstructing the past, the archaeologist needs to take into account all kinds of relevant information. Where no written evidence is available, the natural sciences play an indispensable role. Troia is a remarkable site in this respect...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 22 essays on various aspects of archaeozoology in this volume form a Festschrift dedicated to Juliet Clutton-Brock. Contributors include: J Altuna (Northern mammals in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Pleistocene); L Chaix (Environment and ecology of the Mesolthic hunters inn the northern Alps); C S Churcher (Dogs from Ein Tirghi cemetery, Balat, Egypt); J Paters and A von den Driesch (Mesolithic fishing in Central Sudan); A M Muniz (Ancient Iberian fishing industries from an archaeozoological perspective); H Muller (Horse skeletons of the Bronze Age in central Europe); E Tchernov (From sedentism to domestication in the southern Levant); H Uerpmann (Proposal for a separate nomenclature of domestic animals); E S Wing (The realm between wild and domestic); P Wyrost (The fauna of ancient Poland)...read more