The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology

Umberto Albarella is a Reader in Zooarchaeology at the University of Sheffield. He obtained his PhD from the University of Durham, having first become interested in anthropology and then archaeology as an undergraduate student, and worked at the Universities of Lecce, Birmingham, and Durham before moving to the University of Sheffield in 2004. Specializing in the study of animal bones from archaeological sites, his main areas of research are wide-ranging and include animal domestication and husbandry intensification, ethnoarchaeology, the ritual use of animals, husbandry evidence of Romanization, animals and medieval life, integration in archaeology, and archaeology and politics. He is widely published in these fields and has previously served as Secretary of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ) from 2006 until 2012. Mauro Rizzetto is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield whose research concerns the development of animal husbandry during the late Roman to early medieval transition in Britain and the lower Rhine region, with particular regard to biometrical changes. He has also been working at a number of archaeological sites in Italy, Britain, France, Greece, and Spain, dating from the Neolithic to the post-medieval period. He previously obtained an undergraduate degree in Archaeological Science in 2013 and a Master's degree in Osteoarchaeology in 2015, both at the University of Sheffield. Hannah Russ is a Post-Excavation Manager at archaeology.biz and an Honorary Research fellow at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. She is a zooarchaeologist specializing in the study of aquatic animals, including fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, and has worked on remains from five UNESCO World Heritage sites, as well as other sites in Western Europe and the Middle East dating from the Upper Palaeolithic through to the post-medieval period. Hannah completed her PhD in Archaeological Sciences in 2011 at the University of Bradford and subsequently held positions at the University of Sheffield and Oxford Brookes University. She was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 2019. Kim Vickers completed her PhD on the palaeoentomology of the North Atlantic islands in 2007. Her research has focused on the environmental impact of medieval human settlement and activity in Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe islands, and on the nature of resource use and contact between Norse and Inuit cultures in Greenland, while her other research interests include the Iron Age to Roman transition in Britain and the effects of the Roman invasion of Britain on farming practices and animal husbandry in the early first millennium AD. Sarah Viner-Daniels completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and was subsequently appointed as a Research Associate to the Feeding Stonehenge project. Her main areas of interest include animal exploitation in Mesolithic and Neolithic Britain and the application of isotopic analysis (using strontium and oxygen) to the understanding of prehistoric livestock mobility.

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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 Germonpré 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 Lõugas: 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: Jörg Schibler: Zooarchaeological results from Neolithic and Bronze Age wetland and dryland sites in the Central Alpine Foreland: economic, ecologic, and taphonomic relevance
7: László 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, Céline Dupont-Hébert, 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 Pöllath, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle: The emergence of livestock husbandry in Early Neolithic Anatolia
17: Canan Çak)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: Joaquín 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 Goñalons: 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