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1. Paleolithic Animal Remains in the Mount Carmel Caves: A Review of the Historical and Modern Research REUVEN YESHURUN

2. A New Look at “on Mice and Men”: Should Commensal Species be Used as a Universal Indicator of Early Sedentism? MIRIAM BELMAKER AND ASHLEY B. BROWN

3. Subsistence Strategies in the Aceramic Neolithic at Chogha Golan, Iran BRITT M. STARKOVICH, SIMONE RIEHL, MOHSEN ZEIDI AND NICHOLAS J. CONARD

4. Adoption, Intensification and Manipulation of Sheep Husbandry at Tell Halula, Syria during the Middle to Late PPNB C. TORNERO, M. MOLIST AND M. SAÑA

5. aphonomic and Technological Analysis of the Butchered Animal Bone Remains from Atlit Yam, a Submerged PPNC Site off the Coast of Israel HASKEL J. GREENFIELD, TRENT CHENEY AND EHUD GALILI

6. Changes in “demand and supply” for mass killings of gazelles during the Holocene O. BAR-YOSEF

7. Halaf Period Animal Remains from Tell Aqab, Northeastern Syria LÁSZLÓ BARTOSIEWICZ

8. Prehistoric Molluscan Remains from Tell Aqab, Northeastern Syria CATRIONA PICKARD

9. Preliminary Analysis of the Fauna from the Early Bronze Age III Neighbourhood at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel HASKEL J. GREENFIELD, ANNIE BROWN, ITZHAQ SHAI AND AREN M. MAEIR

10. Bronze Age Walls and Iron Age Pits – Contextual Archaeozoology at Oymaağaç Höyük, Turkey GÜNTHER KARL KUNST, HERBERT BÖHM AND RAINER MARIA CZICHON

11. Every Dog has Its Day: Cynophagy, Identity and Emerging Complexity in Early Bronze Age Attica, Greece ANGELOS HADJIKOUMIS

12. Human–Animal Interactions during the Harappan Period in the Ghaggar Region of Northern India: Insights from Bhirrana ARATI DESHPANDE-MUKHERJEE, AMRITA SEN AND THE LATE L. S. RAO

13. Bringing to Light the Animal Bone Assemblages from the Ancient Burials of Armenia NINA MANASERYAN

14. “Making the Cut”: Changes in Butchering Technology and Efficiency Patterns from the Chalcolithic to Modern Arab Occupations at Tell Halif, Israel HASKEL GREENFIELD AND ANNIE BROWN

15. Class and “Romanization” in Late Roman Egypt: Issues of Identity and the Faunal Remains from the Site of Amheida in the Dakleh Oasis, Western Egypt PAM J. CRABTREE AND DOUGLAS V. CAMPANA

16. Meat Consumption Patterns as an Ethnic Marker in the Late Second Temple Period: Comparing the Jerusalem City Dump and Qumran Assemblages RAM BOUCHNIK

17. There and Back Again: A Tale of a Pilgrim Badge during the Crusader Period INBAR KTALAV