Zooarchaeology in Practice: Case Studies in Methodology and Interpretation in Archaeofaunal Analysis

1: Methods, Methodology, and Zooarchaeology in Practice (Christina M. Giovas and Michelle J. LeFebvre).- Part I: Identification and Quantification.- 2: The History of MNI in North American Zooarchaeology (R. Lee Lyman).- 3: Contemporary Challenges in Zooarchaeological Specimen Identification (Michelle J. LeFebvre and Ashley E. Sharpe).- 4: Impact of Analytic Protocols on Archaeofish Abundance, Richness, and Similarity: A Caribbean-Pacific Crossover Study (Christina M. Giovas).- Part II: Beyond Quantification: Taphonomy, Fragmentation, and Assemblage Size.- 5: Bone Taphonomy in Deep Urban Stratigraphy: Case Studies from York, United Kingdom (Clare Rainsford and Terry O'Connor) .- 6: Low-Survival Skeletal Elements Track Attrition, Not Carcass Transport Behavior in Quaternary Large Mammal Assemblages (J. Tyler Faith and Jessica C. Thompson).- 7: Influence of Bone Survivorship on Taxonomic Abundance Measures (Jacob L. Fisher).- 8: Shell Fragmentation Beyond Screen-Size and the Reconstruction of Intra-Site Settlement Patterns: A Case Study from the West Coast of South Africa (Antonieta Jerardino).- 9: The Value in Studying Large Faunal Collections Using Traditional Zooarchaeological Methods: A Case Study from Anglo-Saxon England (Pam Crabtree).- Part III: Isotopic and Biomolecular Techniques.- 10: Molluscs and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Island and Coastal Settings: Variability, Seasonality, and Sampling (Catherine F. West, Meghan Burchell, and C. Fred T. Andrus).- 11: Ancient DNA in Zooarchaeology: New Methods, New Questions and Settling Old Debates in Pacific Commensal Studies (Lisa Matisoo-Smith).- 12: Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) Collagen Fingerprinting for the Species Identification of Archaeological Bone Fragments (Michael Buckley).- Part IV: Toward Practical Applications and Broader Syntheses.- 13: Coming to Terms with Imperfection: Comparative Studies and the Search for Grazing Impacts in Seventeenth Century New Mexico (Emily Lena Jones).- 14: Zooarchaeology Method and Practice in Classical Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Pathways Forward (Michael MacKinnon).- 15: Assessing California Mussel (Mytilus californianus) Size Changes Through Deep Time: A Case Study from San Miguel Island, California (Todd J. Braje, Hannah Haas, and Breana Campbell).- 16: Concluding Remarks (Umberto Albarella).