Behaviour behind bones : the zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, status and identity / edited by Sharyn Jones O'Day, Wim Van Neer and Anton Ervynck.

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Preface / Peter Rowley-Conwy, Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney -- Introduction / Sharyn Jones O'Day, Wim Van Neer, Anton Ervynck -- Feasting with the dead? : a ritual bone deposit at Domuztepe, south eastern Turkey (c. 5550 cal BC) / Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Stuart Campbell -- Animal offerings found in Necropoleis belonging to Santana of Mures-Cerniahov culture from the east and the south extra-Carpathian Zones of Romania / Simina Stanc, Luminita Bejenaru -- Caprines and toads : taphonomic patterning of animal offering practices in a Late Bronze Age burial assemblage / Lior Weissbrod, Guy Bar-Oz -- The butchering patterns of Gamla and Yodefat : beginning the search for kosher practices / Carole Cope -- Predynastic Egyptian bovid burial in the elite cemetery at Hierakonpolis / Sylvia Warman -- Typhonic bones : a ritual deposit from Saqqara? / Salima Ikram -- Bones and bowls : a preliminary interpretation of the faunal remains from the Punic levels in Area B, at the temple of Tas-Silg, Malta / Andre Corrado, Anthony Bonanno, Nicholas C. Vella -- An Iron Age bone assemblage from Durezza Cave, Carinthia, Austria : detecting ritual behaviour through archaeozoological and taphonomical analyses / Alfred Galik -- Ritual feasting in the Irish Iron Age : re-examining the fauna from Dun Ailinne in light of contemporary archaeological theory / Pam Crabtree -- The economic and non-economic animal : Roman depositions and offerings / Roel C.G.M. Lauwerier -- Roman suovitaurilia and its predecessors / Barbara Wilkens -- Gastronomy or religion? : the animal remains from the mithraeum at Tienen (Belgium) / An Lentacker, Anton Ervynck and Wim Van Neer -- Prehispanic guinea pig sacrifices in southern Perú, the case of el Yaral / Juan Rofes -- Animals from the Maya underworld : reconstructing elite Maya ritual at the Cueva de los Quetzales, Guatemala / Kitty F. Emery -- Observations on the religious content of the animal imagery of the "Gran Coclé" semiotic tradition of pre-Columbian Panama / Richard Cooke -- Identifying ritual use of animals in the northern American Southwest / Robert J. Muir and Jonathan C. Driver -- Facts and fantasies : the archaeology of the Marquesan dog / Sidsel N. Millerstrom -- Past and present perspectives on secular ritual : food and the fisherwomen of the Lau Islands, Fiji / Sharyn Jones O'Day -- Early evidence of economic specialization or social differentiation : a case study from the Neolithic lake shore settlement "Arbon-Bleiche 3" (Switzerland) / Elisabeth Marti-Grädel, Sabine Deschler-Erb, Heide Hüster-Plogmann and Jörg Schibler -- Levels of social identity expressed in the refuse and worked bone from Middle Bronze Age Százhalombatta-Földvár, Vatya culture, Hungary / Alice M. Choyke, Maria Vretemark and Sabine Sten -- Animal husbandry and centralized cultures : how social and political factors can influence rural lifestyle / Giovanni Siracusano -- Food for the dead, the priest, and the mayor : looking for status and identity in the Middle Kingdom settlement at South Abydos, Egypt / Stine Rossel -- Remains of traded fish in archaeological sites : indicators of status, or bulk food? / Wim Van Neer and Anton Ervynck -- Orant, pugnant, laborant : the diet of the three orders in the feudal society of medieval north-western Europe / Anton Ervynck -- Dietary habits of a monastic community as indicated by animal bone remains from Early Modern Age in Austria / Alfred Galik and Günther Karl Kunst -- Status as reflected in food refuse of late medieval noble and urban households at Namur (Belgian) / Fabienne Pigière, Ides Boone, Mircea Udrescu, Wim Van Neer and Sofie Vanpoucke -- Food, status and formation processes : a case study from medieval England / Jonathan C. Driver -- Animal bones as indicators of kosher food refuse from 14th century AD Buda, Hungary / László Daróczi-Szabó -- Ethnic traditions in meat consumption and herding at a 16th century Cumanian settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain / Éva Ágnes Nyerges -- Rich, poor, shaman, child : animals, rank, and status in the "Gran Coclé" culture area of pre-Columbian Panama / Richard Cooke -- Hunting and social differentiation in the late prehispanic American Southwest / James M. Potter -- Zooarchaeological evidence for changing socioeconomic status within early historic Native American communities in Mid-Atlantic North America / Heather A. Lapham -- Implications of risk theory for understanding nineteenth century slave diets in the southern United States / Justin S. E. Lev-Tov -- Cultural identity and the consumption of dogs in western Africa / Veerle Linseele -- Hunting practices and consumption patterns in rural communities in the Rif mountains (Morocco) : some ethno-zoological notes / Marta Moreno-García.

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