Approaches to Faunal Analysis in the Middle East

Publisher's Forward C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Forward Charles A. Reed Preface Richard G. Meadow and Melinda A. Zeder PART ONE: METHODOLOGY 1. The Logistic and Strategic Aspects of Faunal Analysis in Palestine ?yscein Sakala LaBianca 2. Analysis of Unidentifiable Bone from Cayonu: An Early Village Farming Community Barbara Lawrence 3. Effects of Context on the Interpretation of Faunal Remains: A Case Study Richard H. Meadow PART 2: MEASUREMENTS 4. The Significance of Measuring Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites Joachim Boessneck and Angela von den Driesch 5. Metrical Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Middle East Hans-Peter Uerpmann PART 3: DOMESTICATION AND ENVIRONMENT 6. Bones for the Zoologist Juliet Clutton-Brock 7. "Domestication" Defined and Methodological Approaches to its Recognition in Faunal Assemblages Pierre Ducos 8. Environmental and Cultural Differences as Reflected in the Animal Bone Samples from Five Early Neolithic Sites in Southwest Asia SÁndor BÖkÖnyi 9. Rodents and the Archaeological Paleoenvironment: Considerations, Problems, and the Future Richard W. Redding 10. Differentation Between the Bones of Caprines from Different Ecosystems in Iran by the Analysis of Osteological Microstructure and Chemical Composition Melinda A. Zeder PART 4: PAPERS ON FAUNAL REMAINS FROM SHAHR-I SOKHTA 11. Preliminary Remarks Lucia Caloi, Bruno Compagnoni, and Maurizio Tosi 12. The Camel: Its Distribution and State of Domestication in the Middle East During the Third Millennium B.C. in Light of Finds From Shahr-I Sokhta Bruno Compagnoni and Maurizio Tosi 13. The Bone Remains Of Equus Hemionus from Shahr-I Sokhta Bruno Compagnoni 14. The Bones Remains of Gazella Subgutturosa Bruno Capagnoni PART 5: CODING SYSTEMS 15. "Bonesort II"--A System for the Computer Processing of Identifiable Faunal Material Richards W. Redding, Melinda A. Zeder, and John McArdle 16. The "Knocod" System for Processing Data on Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites Hans-Peter Uerpmann 17. "Bonecode"--A System of Numerical Coding for Faunal Data from Middle Eastern Sites Richards H. MeadowMeadow, Richard H. is the author of 'Approaches to Faunal Analysis in the Middle East ', published 1978 under ISBN 9780873659512 and ISBN 0873659511.