Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword - Stephen Shennan -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Origins and Spread of Stock-Keeping - Keith Dobney, Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Katie Manning, Joris Peters and Stephen Shennan -- 2. Archaeological, Morphological, and Genetic Approaches to Pig Domestication - Linus Girdland-Flink and Greger Larson -- 3. Inferring Processes of Neolithic Gene-Culture Co-Evolution Using Genetic and Archaeological Data: The Case of Lactase Persistence and Dairying - Pascale Gerbault, Ruth Bollongino, Joachim Burger and Mark G. Thomas -- 4. Diverse Strategies: Evaluating the Appearance and Spread of Domestic Caprines in the Southern Levant - Louise Martin and Yvonne Edwards -- 5. The Long and Winding Road: Ungulate Exploitation and Domestication in Early Neolithic Anatolia (10000-7000 CAL BC) -Joris Peters, Hijlke Buitenhuis, Gisela Grupe, Klaus Schmidt and Nadja Pöllath -- 6. Domestication Process and Domestic Ungulates: New Observations from Cyprus - Jean-Denis Vigne -- 7. Early Stock-keeping in Greece - Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou -- 8. Early Farming Adaptations of the Northeast Adriatic Karst - Clive Bonsall, Dimitrij Mlekuž, László Bartosiewicz and Catriona Pickard -- 9. Early Domestic Animals in Italy, Istria, the Tyrrhenian Islands and Southern France - Peter Rowley-Conwy, Lionel Gourichon, Daniel Helmer and Jean-Denis Vigne -- 10. Domestication of Animals in the Iberian Peninsula - Maria Saña -- 11. Origin of Stock-keeping and Spread of Animal Exploitation Strategies in the Early and Middle Neolithic of the North European Plain - Arkadiusz Marciniak -- 12. Animal Exploitation in the Early Neolithic of the Balkans and Central Europe - Katie Manning, Barbara Stopp, Sue Colledge, Sean Downey, James Conolly, Keith Dobney and Stephen Shennan.

13. Zooarchaeological Data from Late Mesolithic and Neolithic Sites in Switzerland (CA. 6000-3500 CAL BC) - Jörg Schibler -- 14. Early Neolithic Pastoral Traditions and Cultural Groups in Northern France - Rose-Marie Arbogast and Christian Jeunesse -- 15. North of the Frontier: Early Domestic Animals in Northern Europe - Peter Rowley-Conwy -- 16. On the Northwestern Fringes: Earlier Neolitihic Subsistence in Britain and Ireland as seen through Faunal Remains and Stable Isotopes - Rick Schulting -- General Index -- Index of Site Names -- Index of Species -- Index of Common Species Names -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.