This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems. The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1, Beyond Calories, focuses on the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion. Contributors discuss ways to approach questions of ritual and religion through the faunal record, and consider how material culture depicting and/or associated with animals can provides clues about ideology, religious practices and the role of animals within spiritual systems. Part 2, Equations for Inequality, looks at questions of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies. Contributors discuss how differences in food consumption, nutrition, and food procurement strategies can be related to various forms of social differentiation among individuals and groups.

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• Preface: Peter Rowley-Conwy, Umberto Albarella and Keith Dobney
• Introduction: Sharyn Jones O’Day, Wim Van Neer and Anton Ervynck
• Part 1: Beyond calories: the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion edited by Sharyn Jones O’Day
  • 1. Feasting with the dead? – a ritual bone deposit at Domuztepe, south eastern Turkey (c. 5550 cal BC): Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Stuart Campbell
  • 2. 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 and Luminita Bejenaru
  • 3. Caprines and toads: taphonomic patterning of animal offering practices in a Late Bronze Age burial assemblage: Lior Weissbrod and Guy Bar-Oz
  • 4. The butchering patterns of Gamla and Yodefat: beginning the search for kosher practices: Carole Cope
  • 5. Predynastic Egyptian bovid burial in the elite cemetery at Hierakonpolis: Sylvia Warman
  • 6. Typhonic bones: a ritual deposit from Saqqara?: Salima Ikram
  • 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: André Corrado, Anthony Bonanno and Nicholas C. Vella
  • 8. An Iron Age bone assemblage from Durezza Cave, Carinthia, Austria: detecting ritual behaviour through archaeozoological and taphonomical analyses: Alfred Galik
  • 9. Ritual feasting in the Irish Iron Age: re-examining the fauna from Dún Ailinne in light of contemporary archaeological theory: Pam Crabtree
  • 10. The economic and non-economic animal: Roman depositions and offerings: Roel C. G. M. Lauwerier
  • 11. Roman suovitaurilia and its predecessors: Barbara Wilkens
  • 12. Gastronomy or religion? the animal remains from the mithraeum at Tienen (Belgium): An Lentacker, Anton Ervynck and Wim Van Neer
  • 13. Prehispanic guinea pig sacrifices in southern Perú, the case of el Yaral: Juan Rofes
  • 14. Animals from the Maya underworld: reconstructing elite Maya ritual at the Cueva de los Quetzales, Guatemala: Kitty F. Emery
  • 15. Observations on the religious content of the animal imagery of the ‘Gran Coclé’ semiotic tradition of pre-Columbian Panama: Richard Cooke
  • 16. Identifying ritual use of animals in the northern American Southwest: Robert J. Muir and Jonathan C. Driver
  • 17. Facts and fantasies: the archaeology of the Marquesan dog: Sidsel N. Millerstrom
  • 18. Past and present perspectives on secular ritual: food and the fisherwomen of the Lau Islands, Fiji: Sharyn Jones O’Day
• 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
  • 19. 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
  • 20. 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
  • 21. Animal husbandry and centralized cultures. How social and political factors can influence rural lifestyle: Giovanni Siracusano
  • 22. 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
  • 23. Remains of traded fish in archaeological sites: indicators of status, or bulk food?: Wim Van Neer and Anton Ervynck
  • 24. Orant, pugnant, laborant. The diet of the three orders in the feudal society of medieval north-western Europe: Anton Ervynck
  • 25. Dietary habits of a monastic community as indicated by animal bone remains from Early Modern Age in Austria: Alfred Galik and Günther Karl Kunst
  • 26. Status as reflected in food refuse of late medieval noble and urban households at Namur (Belgium): Fabienne Pigière, Ides Boone, Mircea Udrescu, Wim Van Neer and Sofie Vanpoucke
  • 27. Food, status and formation processes: a case study from medieval England: Jonathan C. Driver
  • 28. Animal bones as indicators of kosher food refuse from 14th century AD Buda, Hungary: László Daróczi-Szabó
  • 29. Ethnic traditions in meat consumption and herding at a 16th century Cumanian settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain: Éva Ágnes Nyerges
  • 30. Rich, poor, shaman, child: animals, rank, and status in the ‘Gran Coclé’ culture area of pre-Columbian Panama: Richard Cooke
  • 31. Hunting and social differentiation in the late prehispanic American Southwest: James M. Potter
  • 32. Zooarchaeological evidence for changing socioeconomic status within early historic Native American communities in Mid-Atlantic North America: Heather A. Lapham
  • 33. Implications of risk theory for understanding nineteenth century slave diets in the southern United States: Justin S. E. Lev-Tov
  • 34. Cultural identity and the consumption of dogs in western Africa: Veerle Linseele
  • 35. Hunting practices and consumption patterns in rural communities in the Rif mountains (Morocco) – some ethno-zoological notes: Marta Moreno-García