
Behaviour Behind Bones
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1: Beyond calories: the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion edited by Sharyn Jones O'Day
- Chapter 1: Feasting with the dead? - a ritual bone deposit at Domuztepe, south eastern Turkey (c. 5550 cal BC)
- Chapter 2: Animal offerings found in Necropoleis belonging to Santana of Mures-Cerniahov culture from the east and the south extra-Carpathian Zones of Romania
- Chapter 3: Caprines and toads: taphonomic patterning of animal offering practices in a Late Bronze Age burial assemblage
- Chapter 4: The butchering patterns of Gamla and Yodefat: beginning the search for kosher practices
- Chapter 5: Predynastic Egyptian bovid burial in the elite cemetery at Hierakonpolis
- Chapter 6: Typhonic bones: a ritual deposit from Saqqara?
- Chapter 7: Bones and bowls: a preliminary interpretation of the faunal remains from the Punic levels in Area B, at the temple of Tas-Silg, Malta
- Chapter 8: An Iron Age bone assemblage from Durezza Cave, Carinthia, Austria: detecting ritual behaviour through archaeozoological and taphonomical analyses
- Chapter 9: Ritual feasting in the Irish Iron Age: re-examining the fauna from Dún Ailinne in light of contemporary archaeological theory
- Chapter 10: The economic and non-economic animal: Roman depositions and offerings
- Chapter 11: Roman suovitaurilia and its predecessors
- Chapter 12: Gastronomy or religion? the animal remains from the mithraeum at Tienen (Belgium)
- Chapter 13: Prehispanic guinea pig sacrifices in southern Perú, the case of El Yaral
- Chapter 14: Animals from the Maya underworld: reconstructing elite Maya ritual at the Cueva de los Quetzales, Guatemala
- Chapter 15: Observations on the religious content of the animal imagery of the 'Gran Coclé' semiotic tradition of pre-Columbian Panama
- Chapter 16: Identifying ritual use of animals in the northern American Southwest
- Chapter 17: Facts and fantasies: the archaeology of the Marquesan dog
- Chapter 18: Past and present perspectives on secular ritual: food and the fisherwomen of the Lau Islands, Fiji
- Part 2: Equations for inequality: the zooarchaeology of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies edited by Wim Van Neer and Anton Ervynck
- Chapter 19: Early evidence of economic specialization or social differentiation: a case study from the Neolithic lake shore settlement 'Arbon-Bleiche 3' (Switzerland)
- Chapter 20: Levels of social identity expressed in the refuse and worked bone from Middle Bronze Age Százhalombatta- Földvár, Vatya culture, Hungary
- Chapter 21: Animal husbandry and centralized cultures. How social and political factors can influence rural lifestyle
- Chapter 22: Food for the dead, the priest, and the mayor: looking for status and identity in the Middle Kingdom settlement at South Abydos, Egypt
- Chapter 23: Remains of traded fish in archaeological sites: indicators of status, or bulk food?
- Chapter 24: Orant, pugnant, laborant. The diet of the three orders in the feudal society of medieval north-western Europe
- Chapter 25: Dietary habits of a monastic community as indicated by animal bone remains from Early Modern Age in Austria
- Chapter 26: Status as reflected in food refuse of late medieval noble and urban households at Namur (Belgium)
- Chapter 27: Food, status and formation processes: a case study from medieval England
- Chapter 28: Animal bones as indicators of kosher food refuse from 14th century AD Buda, Hungary
- Chapter 29: Ethnic traditions in meat consumption and herding at a 16th century Cumanian settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain
- Chapter 30: Rich, poor, shaman, child: animals, rank, and status in the 'Gran Coclé' culture area of pre-Columbian Panama
- Chapter 31: Hunting and social differentiation in the late prehispanic American Southwest
- Chapter 32: Zooarchaeological evidence for changing socioeconomic status within early historic Native American communities in Mid-Atlantic North America
- Chapter 33: Implications of risk theory for understanding nineteenth century slave diets in the southern United States
- Chapter 34: Cultural identity and the consumption of dogs in western Africa
- Chapter 35: Hunting practices and consumption patterns in rural communities in the Rif mountains (Morocco) - some ethno-zoological notes
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