Behaviour Behind Bones : The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity.

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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