Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances Book

	List of figures	8
	List of tables	12
	List of abbreviations	14
	Abstracts	15
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	Foreword	29
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	Preface	33
1	Introduction	35
2	Alternative methods for identifying sex from archaeological animal bone	37
3	Dental microwear in modern Greek ovicaprids: identifying microwear signatures associated with a diet of leafy-hay	45
4	Introduction	51
5	Holocene endemic and non endemic mammals of the Aegean islands	53
6	Early island archaeology and the extinction of endemic fauna in the eastern Mediterranean: problems of interpretation and methodology	65
7	Fishing in the Mesolithic and Neolithic - the Cave of Cyclops, Youra	75
8	Hunting and breeding in ancient Crete	85
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10	Fishing in late antiquity: the case of Itanos, Crete	103
11	Introduction	111
12	Theopetra cave and the Palaeolithic-Mesolithic transition in southern Europe	115
13	Economic and ecological evidence from the vertebrate remains of the Neolithic site of Makri (Thrace-Greece)	123
14	Megalo Nisi Galanis and the Secondary Products Revolution in Macedonia	133
15	Animal and marine remains from the new excavations at Eleusis: an interim report	145
16	Animal remains from the Hellenistic town of New Halos in the Almiros plain, Thessaly	153
17	Ibex exploitation: the case of Klithi or the case of the Upper Palaeolithic?	161
18	Non-domestic carnivores in Greek prehistory: a review	175
19	Archaeological fish remains in Greece: general trends of the research and a gazetteer of sites	193
20	Introduction	201
21	Promethean legacy: investigations into the ritual procedure of 'Olympian' sacrifice	203
22	Archaeozoology in a ritual context: the case of a sacrificial altar in Geometric Eretria	215
23	From Lerna to Kastro: further thoughts on dogs as food in ancient Greece; perceptions, prejudices and reinvestigations	221
24	Worked and utilised bone and antler: practical and cultural rationales for the selection of raw materials	233
25	The sacred geography of hunting: wild animals, social power and gender in early farming societies	239
26	Introduction	249
27	The Delian chora in Classical and Hellenistic times: an island landscape planned for pastoralism	251
28	Texts and bones: contrasting Linear B and archaeozoological evidence for animal exploitation in Mycenaean southern Greece	257
29	Animals in the Neolithic figurine art of Thessaly	263
30	Taxonomic and behavioural aspects of the representation of mammals in Aegean Bronze Age art	273
31	The 'socialisation' of animals in Epirus, Ikaria and Crete: the material and symbolic role of man-animal relations of production in the process of social formation	283
32	Preliminary study of pastoral activities among the Pomaks in Greek Thrace	291
33	Consumption strategies in a highland village of central Crete: marriage banquets as a case study	297
	An interpretative (English-Greek) glossary of zooarchaeological and related terms	303
	List of contributors	309