Zooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, zooarchaeologi

The author provides a focused overview of the field, emphasizing how bones are used to study past human-animal interactions.

Non-Aboriginal material.

The first section of the book describes how zoo-archaeologists go about studying faunal remains from archaeological sites, and to explore the nature of these re