Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations

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INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
PART I: ARCHAEOZOOLOGY AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY
1. A Bird’s Eye View of Ritual at the Cahokia Site
2. The Organization of Animal Production in an Early Urban Center: The Zooarchaeological Evidencefrom Early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük, Southeastern Turkey
3. Animal-Derived Artefacts at Two Pre-Columbian Sites in the Ancient Savannas of Central Panama.An Update on their Relevance to Studies of Social Hierarchy and Cultural Attitudes Towards Animals
4. Body Parts, Placements and People in an Iron Age Town in Bulgaria
5. Status and Diet at the Workers’ Town, Giza, Egypt
6. Chiefly Fare or Who’s Feeding the Cacique? Equality in Animal Use at the Tibes Ceremonial Center,Puerto Rico
7. A Plebeian Perspective on Empire Economies: Faunal Remains from Tel Miqne-Ekron, Israel
8. Continuity and Change in Faunal Consumption Patterns at the Pre-Inka and Inka Site of Yoroma, Bolivia
9. Living on the Frontier: “Scythian” and “Celtic” Animal Exploitation in Iron Age Northeastern Hungary
PART II: ZOOARCHAEOLOGY AND COLONIALISM
10. Archaeozoology and Colonialism: An Introduction
11. Craving for Hunger: A Zooarchaeological Study at the the Edge of the Spanish Empire
12. Zooarchaeology in the Spanish Borderlands of the American Southwest: Challenges and Opportunities
13. Animal Husbandry at Pimería Alta Missions: El Ganado en el Sudoeste de Norteamérica
14. The Adoption and Use of Domestic Animals at Zuni
15. “Romanizing” Ancient Carthage: Evidence from Zooarchaeological Remains
16. Animal Keeping and Roman Colonization in the Province of Panonia Inferior, Western Hungary
17. Zooarchaeology and Colonialism in Roman Britain: Evidence from Icklingham
PART III: ANIMAL TRANSFORMATIONS
18. The Bone is the Beast: Animal Amulets and Ornaments in Power and Magic
19. Skeletal Manipulations of Dogs at the Bronze Age Site of Százhalombatta-Földvár in Hungary
20. Bovid Skulls in Southeastern European Neolithic Dwellings: The Case of the Subterranean CircularRoom at Promachon-Topolniča in the Strymon Valley, Greece
21. Symbolism of Sharks for Fisher-Gatherer Groups from the Sao Paulo Coast, Brazil
22. Tupilak Transformations: Traditional Ivory Objects as Modern Souvenirs
23. The Birds and Animals in Ancient Armenian Art
24. The Transformations of the Quetzal Bird
25. Pets in Pots: Superstitious Belief in a Medieval Christian (12th–14th century) Village in Hungary
26. “Left” is “Right”: The Symbolism behind Side Choice among Ancient Animal Sacrifi ces
27. The Composition and Interpretation of Associated Bone Groups from Wessex
28. Making Themselves at Home: The Archaeology of Commensal Vertebrates