Cover--Half-title--Title page--Copyright information--Dedication--Table of contents--List of
figures--Preface--Acknowledgments--Chapter 1 Introduction: The Social Life of food--The …

The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

Livestock dung is a valuable material for reconstructing human and animal inter-relations
and activity within open areas and built environments. This paper examines the identification …

The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our best current understanding of
physics at the smallest scales. A fundamental axiom of this theory is the universality of the …

The transition from a human diet based exclusively on wild plants and animals to one
involving dependence on domesticated plants and animals beginning 10,000 to 11,000 y …

Vertical transhumance is a crucial animal management strategy that provides livestock with
fresh pasture on a seasonal basis while simultaneously expanding the scale of landscape …

Livestock dung is a suitable material for delineating the complexity of interactions between
people, plants and animals as it contains critical information on environmental and …

Over the last few decades a variety of geoarchaeological methods and ethnoarchaeological
and experimental approaches have demonstrated the fundamental importance of animal …

Findings of canid remains in graves at different sites in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula
are evidence of a widespread funerary practice that proliferated between the end of the 3rd …

The flanks of the Caucasus Mountains and the steppe landscape to their north offered highly
productive grasslands for Bronze Age herders and their flocks of sheep, goat, and cattle …