Proceedings of the General Session of the 11th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference (Paris 23-28 August 2010)

This publication is one of the volumes of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), which was held in Paris (France) 23rd-28th August 2010. Contents: 1) A histological identification method for unburned and burned bone fragments: Telling humans apart from horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs (S. Cuijpers); 2) Zoogenic deposits in rock shelters from the Old World (experience for palaeoecological purposes) (A.B. Savinetsky et al.); 3) Age estimation of juvenile guanaco (Lama guanicoe) individuals using diaphyseal long bone length (G.L. L'Heureux and C. Kaufmann); 4) Sex, Breed or Rearing Conditions? A Multivariate Approach to Assessing Shape Variations in Mediaeval Cattle Metapodials from Bern, Switzerland (A. Rehazek and M. Nussbaumer); 5) Sheep on the Hills: Complexities of decision making in Saxon England (Matilda Holmes); 6) Household wastes and bone craft activity in Strasbourg (France) in the 15th century (B. Clavel and S. Frere); 7) Animal husbandry in the Bronze Age Alpine settlement "Savognin - Padnal," Switzerland: a preliminary study (Miki Boppito); 8) Noble Meals instead of abstinence? A faunal assemblage from the Monastery of Norden, Northern Germany (H.C. Kuchelmanns); 9) The fauna from the Gravettian levels of Roccia San Sebastiano Cave (Mondragone, Caserta, Italy) (F.D. Ruiu et al.); 10) Reconstruction of the economic and social features of Su Coddu, an Eneolithic settlement in Sardinia based on animal remains (V. Farina et al.); 11) Faunal exploitation and animal hard tissue manufacturing during the Middle-Recent Bronze Age in the Verona area: the site of Bovolone (Verona, Italy) (G. Petrucci et al.); 12) Faunal remains from Sassari (Sardinia, Italy). An urban archaeozoological case study (E. Grassi); 13) Preliminary remarks on the faunal assemblage of the unique Neolithic lakeside settlement of Greece: Dispilio (prefecture of Kastoria) (E. Samartzidou); 14) The fish from Zamostje and their importance for the last hunter-gatherers of the Russian Plain (Mesolithic-Neolithic) (V. Radu and N. Desse-Berset); 15) An amazing discovery at Arslantepe (East Anatolia): unusual find of a cheetah in an EBA III level (G. Siracusano); 16) Tell Afis (Syria): ritual meals and foundation ceremonies. Findings from the 2009-2010 excavation campaign (G. Carenti); 17) Seasonal Patterns of Resource Use in Temperate Estuaries: A Case Study from the Late Prehistoric Period on St. Catherine's Island, Georgia, USA (S. Bergh); 18) Using Animal Remains to Reconstruct Ancient Landscapes and Climate in the Central and Southern Maya Lowlands (K.F. Emery and E.K. Thornton); 19) Butchery evidence on rodent bones from archaeological sites in the Pampean Region (Argentina) (P. Escosteguy and M. Salemme); 20) Broadening the knowledge on the exploitation of fauna at Cabo Virgenes, Patagonia Argentina, during the Late Holocene (G.L. L'Heureux et al.); 21) Remarks on the biodiversity of marine molluscs from late Holocene Brazilian shell mounds (R.C.C.L. Souza); 22) The site Geriba II, Buzios, Rio de Janeiro. Understanding an Ancient Shell Mound from Archaeological, Zooarchaeological and Geological Perspectives (M.C. Tenorio). Papers in English.