Notes
Section 1: An Orientation to Zooarchaeology -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Emergence of Zooarchaeology -- Chapter 3. A Perspective on Zooarchaeology -- Section 2: The Evidence- Vertebrate Bodies -- Chapter 4. Bone and Vertebrate Bodies as Uniformitarian Materials -- Chapter 5. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Why Animals Eat Animals -- Chapter 6. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Inferring Species, Sex, and Age -- Chapter 7. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Age Estimation from Mammalian Dentition -- Section 3: Basic Practical Approaches -- Chapter 8. Field Recovery, Lab Methods, Data Records, Curation -- Chapter 9. Identification: Sorting Decisions and Analytic Consequences -- Chapter 10. Zooarchaeology's Basic Counting Units -- Section 4: Identifying Causal Process, Effector, Actor -- Chapter 11. Human, Animal, and Geological Causes of Bone Breakage -- Chapter 12. Mammalian and Reptilian Carnivore Effects on Bone -- Chapter 13. Avian Carnivore, Ungulate, and Effects on Bone -- Chapter 14. Primary Human Effects: Cutting Edge and Percussion Effects on Bone -- Chapter 15. Culinary Processing and Preservational Effects on Bone -- Chapter 16. Invertebrate, Plant, and Geological Effects on Bone -- Section 5: Studying Behavioral, Social, Ecological Contexts -- Chapter 17. Analyzing Multi-Agent Assemblages -- Chapter 18. Reasoning with Zooarchaeological Counting Units and Statistics -- Chapter 19. Skeletal Disarticulation, Dispersal, Dismemberment, Selective Transport -- Chapter 20. Calibrating Nutritionally Driven Selective Transport -- Chapter 21. Calibrating Bone Durability -- Chapter 22. Zooarchaeology and Ecology: Mortality Profiles, Species Abundance, Diversity -- Chapter 23. New Ecological Directions: Isotopes, Genetics, Historical Ecology, Conservation -- Chapter 24. Behavioral Ecology and Zooarchaeology -- Chapter 25. Social Relations through Zooarchaeology -- Conclusion -- Chapter 26. Doing Zooarchaeology Today and Tomorrow.