In many areas of the world, current theories for agricultural origins emphasize yield as a
major concern during intensification. In Africa, however, the need for scheduled …

While the modern freshwater fish fauna of Africa has been the subject of considerable
biological attention, there are few studies on the biogeography that include recent fossil …

The reconstruction of the environment and the human population history of the Nile Valley
during the Late Pleistocene have received a lot of attention in the literature thus far. There …

Nabta Playa basin offers an unprecedented longitudinal view on the emergence,
consolidation and complexification on human–livestock relationships, from the early stage of …

While research into the diet and subsistence of early hominids has focussed primarily on
medium to large size mammals, modern ethnographic and dietary evidence suggests that …

Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and
highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of …

The archaeozoological evidence that is available for the trade of fish in the Eastern
Mediterranean area is summarized. This overview covers the Chalcolithic to the Crusader …

Questions relating to the antiquity of domestic cattle in the Sahara are among the most
controversial in North African prehistory. It is generally believed that cattle were first …

The excavations of Roman and Early Byzantine contexts at the town of Sagalassos (Turkey)
yielded fish remains belonging to species that do not occur near the site. The modern …

Evidence for the acquisition of nutritionally dense food resources by early Pleistocene
hominins has implications for both hominin biology and behavior. Aquatic fauna may have …