Cover -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS -- PART I: ARCHAEOZOOLOGY AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY -- 1. A Bird's Eye View of Ritual at the Cahokia Site -- 2. The Organization of Animal Production in an Early Urban Center: The Zooarchaeological Evidencefrom Early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük, Southeastern Turkey -- 3. Animal-Derived Artefacts at Two Pre-Columbian Sites in the Ancient Savannas of Central Panama.An Update on their Relevance to Studies of Social Hierarchy and Cultural Attitudes Towards Animals -- 4. Body Parts, Placements and People in an Iron Age Town in Bulgaria -- 5. Status and Diet at the Workers' Town, Giza, Egypt -- 6. Chiefly Fare or Who's Feeding the Cacique? Equality in Animal Use at the Tibes Ceremonial Center,Puerto Rico -- 7. A Plebeian Perspective on Empire Economies: Faunal Remains from Tel Miqne-Ekron, Israel -- 8. Continuity and Change in Faunal Consumption Patterns at the Pre-Inka and Inka Site of Yoroma, Bolivia -- 9. Living on the Frontier: "Scythian" and "Celtic" Animal Exploitation in Iron Age Northeastern Hungary -- PART II: ZOOARCHAEOLOGY AND COLONIALISM -- 10. Archaeozoology and Colonialism: An Introduction -- 11. Craving for Hunger: A Zooarchaeological Study at the the Edge of the Spanish Empire -- 12. Zooarchaeology in the Spanish Borderlands of the American Southwest: Challenges and Opportunities -- 13. Animal Husbandry at Pimería Alta Missions: El Ganado en el Sudoeste de Norteamérica -- 14. The Adoption and Use of Domestic Animals at Zuni -- 15. "Romanizing" Ancient Carthage: Evidence from Zooarchaeological Remains -- 16. Animal Keeping and Roman Colonization in the Province of Panonia Inferior, Western Hungary -- 17. Zooarchaeology and Colonialism in Roman Britain: Evidence from Icklingham -- PART III: ANIMAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- 18. The Bone is the Beast: Animal Amulets and Ornaments in Power and Magic.

19. Skeletal Manipulations of Dogs at the Bronze Age Site of Százhalombatta-Földvár in Hungary -- 20. Bovid Skulls in Southeastern European Neolithic Dwellings: The Case of the Subterranean CircularRoom at Promachon-Topolniča in the Strymon Valley, Greece -- 21. Symbolism of Sharks for Fisher-Gatherer Groups from the Sao Paulo Coast, Brazil -- 22. Tupilak Transformations: Traditional Ivory Objects as Modern Souvenirs -- 23. The Birds and Animals in Ancient Armenian Art -- 24. The Transformations of the Quetzal Bird -- 25. Pets in Pots: Superstitious Belief in a Medieval Christian (12th-14th century) Village in Hungary -- 26. "Left" is "Right": The Symbolism behind Side Choice among Ancient Animal Sacrifi ces -- 27. The Composition and Interpretation of Associated Bone Groups from Wessex -- 28. Making Themselves at Home: The Archaeology of Commensal Vertebrates.