The discipline of archaeology has long engaged with animals in a utilitarian mode,
constructing animals as objects to be hunted, manipulated, domesticated, and consumed …

This book traces the evolution of the dog, from its origins about 15,000 years ago up to
recent times. The timing of dog domestication receives attention, with comparisons between …

Evidence from bones, artifacts, and imagery demonstrates the importance of scarlet macaws
in Southwest/Northwest sites from around AD 700 to today. Archaeologists interpret these …

Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

The role of social valuables in establishing and defeating hierarchies in prestate societies is
explored through the use of Annette Weiner's concept of “inalienable possessions.” …

Practice theory focuses attention on agency and the generative dimensions of sites and
material culture in terms of social formation and reproduction. This approach is applied to …

Animal symbolism is a ubiquitous and powerful component of human ideology. Cattle were
clearly the preeminent symbolic taxon in the Southwest Asian Neolithic, and archaeologists …

The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) was independently domesticated in Mesoamerica and the
Southwest, the latter as the only case of Native American animal domestication north of …

The introduction of the dog in Patagonia is recorded from the Late Holocene. Documents
from the nineteenth century indicate that dogs had various utilitarian roles among hunter …

Building memories: commemorative deposits at Çatalhöyük Page 1 Building memories:
commemorative deposits at Çatalhöyük Authors: Russell, Nerissa, Martin, Louise, and Twiss …