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Selected papers from a conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology, held in London under the auspices of the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, April 1982.

In this volume, Christensen outlines a new method for the identification of worked material through its physio-chemical (or mineral and organic) components. This assumes that, in modifying or making tools, micro-fragments of this material would stay at the edge of the tools.

This study of birth-rates, death-rates and demography in Medieval Italy challenges many traditional assumptions based on documentary evidence.

A report on subsistence strategies at the site of Hector Trudel in the Saint-Laurent Valley, Quebec, between 500 and 1000 BC, known locally as the Middle Sylvicole period. This study looks at the site and the faunal remains within the context of the local ecology and environment.

In this detailed study, Liddiard examines the processes and factors which determined the number, distribution and location of castles and considers how a castle's construction altered its environment.

In this study Stefano del Lungo provides a detailed, year-by-year account of the history of Muslim presence in central and northern Tyrrhenian Sea in the High Middle Ages, 8th to 10th century.

Since the division of Cyprus in 1974, fieldwork has carried on unabated in the south although relatively few excavation or survey projects have been undertaken in the north. This is therefore an important publication presenting results from field survey in the area around Kyrenia.

A history and overview of the state of archaeological research in Iran from its beginnings to the present day. Kamal Aldin Niknami assesses recent developments in western archaeology and their impact or influence on Near Eastern practices.

The Mesolithic of this region of Northern Italy is known through faunal remains and lithic material found within rockshelters and at open-air hunting camps and processing sites.

Following an archaeological assessment, geophysical survey, and evaluation trenching, a large-scale excavation covering some 30 hectares was undertaken by the Historic Environment Service projects team of Cornwall County Council at the site of Imerys Minerals Ltd's Scarcewater tip, St Stephen-in-Brannel in 2004. The archaeological excavations were focused upon the investigation of three sunken-floored roundhouses of Middle Bronze Age date, together with a range of Bronze Age pits and timber structures, aLate Bronze Age roundhouse and palisade enclosure and pits, a Middle Iron Age 'cairn', and Romano-British settlement and funerary activity. The analyses of the information from the excavated sites has provided the opportunity to investigate shifting settlement foci and changes to Bronze Age roundhouse architecture over a period between 1500 and 1000 cal BC, and to examine the relationships between settlement-related and ceremonial activity in the middle of the second millennium cal BC. Importantly, the project has also allowed a study to be made of sites rarely identified in Cornwall. These include structures of the first millennium cal BC and Romano-British activity that was associated with both unenclosed settlement and funerary practice. Overall, the project has enabled relationships, changing patterns of settlement, architectural traditions, and spatial attitudes between the living and the dead to be considered in several key periods.

This study seeks to examine how late antique culture in the Bristol Channel region changed so dramatically in the two centuries following the collapse of Roman authority.

The aim of this interesting study is to provide insight into some current thoughts pertaining to the field of maritime archaeology and to sketch certain developments which are in part focused on the region of South Africa and complemented with case studies on surveys and excavation of 17th century shipwrecks of the Dutch East India Company.

Corbeddu cave on the island of Sardinia contains Late Pleistocene sediments containing numerous fossils of a common species of deer.

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First analysis and interpretation of figured lamps found in a specific Cretan context, in the Idean Cave which had an international importance in the Roman period. About 1500 so far unpublished lamps are noted. They show a variety of motifs and were produced in at least six different workshops.

The book looks at two Mayan areas in pre-Colombian times and follows the evolution of their occupation: North of Belize and Quintana Roo in today's Mexico. The first one is the least studied area that belonged Mayas. The resulting conclusion shows that the two areas had quite different patterns of occupation.

The excavations at Ain Hanech in Algeria, one of the oldest archaeological sites in North Africa. Includes a report on North African Lower Palaeolithic, stratigraphy and dating, formation of the site and lithic assemblage analysis.

This thesis estabishes a chronlogy of tree-ring dates from the Paris basin from sites of all periods. This is followed by more detailed period based discussion highlighting problem areas and looking closely at the most important sites.

A study of Imperial Roman funerary altars in Northern Italy (from the ancient regions of Emilia, Venetia et Histria, Transpadana and Liguria) dating from the late Tiberian and Antonine periods. Stylistic epigraphic, chronological and typological analyses, and an illustrated catalogue of 243 examples.

An analysis of the settlement data of thirteen known bronze age sites of Palestine (Tell Abu Hawam, Tell el'Adjoul, Ashdod, Tell Beit Mirsim, Bethel, Beth Shemesh, Tell el Far'ah, Tell Halif, Hazor, Jericho, Megiddo, Tell Naglia and Tell Ta'anach). The author compares the various structures to see if a pattern for the period emerges.