This article aims to summarize the present archaeo (zoo) logical knowledge and reflections
on the origins of Neolithic animal domestication. It targets the main characteristics of early …

A critical review of the conceptual and practical evolution of forensic anthropology during the
last two decades serves to identify two key external factors and four tightly inter‐related …

Historical biogeography has a diversity of methods for inferring ancestral geographic ranges
on phylogenies, but many of the methods have conflicting assumptions, and there is no …

Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and
the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and updated 2005 …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Cutmarks made by stone tools, conchoidal flake scars from hammerstone percussion,
carnivore tooth marks, striations from sedimentary abrasion, and other surface modifications …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements,
bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the …

Animal ecologists can observe the present and reconstruct the last one or two centuries from
historical sources, but the study of animal bones adds valuable insight into the peoples and …

Fifteen years ago Casteel and Grayson (1977) identified potential ambiguity in the
definitions of quantitative terms and units used by zooarchaeologists. As solutions they …