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The 22 essays on various aspects of archaeozoology in this new volume form a Festschrift dedicated to Juliet Clutton-Brock. Contributors include: J Altuna (Northern mammals in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Pleistocene) ; L Chaix (Environment and ecology of the Mesolthic hunters inn the northern Alps) ; C S Churcher (Dogs from Ein Tirghi cemetery, Balat, Egypt) ; J Paters and A von den Driesch (Mesolithic fishing in Central Sudan) ; A M Muniz (Ancient Iberian fishing industries from an archaeozoological perspective) ; H Muller (Horse skeletons of the Bronze Age in central Europe) ; E Tchernov (From sedentism to domestication in the southern Levant) ; H Uerpmann (Proposal for a separate nomenclature of domestic animals) ; E S Wing (The realm between wild and domestic) ; P Wyrost (The fauna of ancient Poland) . Table of Contents Juliet Clutton-Brock, for her 60th birthday Bibliography of Juliet Clutton-Brock Find of northern mammals in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Pleistocene (by Jesus Altuna) Late Medieval lynx skeleton from Hungary (Lazlo Bartosiewicz) On the problem of interpreting within-sample variation (Don Brothwell) Environment and ecology of the Mesolithic hunters in the northern Alps (Louis Chaix) Dogs from Ein Tirghi cemetery, Balat, Dakhleh Oasis, Western desert of Egypt (C.S. Churcher) Bergenschenhoek (A.T. Clason and D. C. Brinkhuizen) Mesolithic fishing at the junction of the Nile and the Atbara, Central Sudan (Joris Peters and Angela von den Driesch) Fawn, kids and lambs (Pierre Ducos) "What's in a name?" A short history of the Latin and other labels proposed for domestic animals (Achilles Gautier) Why are the so many breeds of lifestock? (Stephen J.G. Hall) "Natural history and experiment in archaeology" revisited (Peter Jewell) The ecological and archaeological significance of Rock Hyrax bones from nodern eagle roosts in South Africa (Richard G. Klein & Kathryn Cruz-Uribe) Where are the tunas? Ancient Iberian fishing industries from an archaeozoological perspective (Arturo Morales Muniz) Horse skeletons of the Bronze Age in Central Europe (Hanns-Hermann Muller) Evidence of early domestication of the water buffalo in China (Stanley J. Olsen) Studies of the bone detritus of the striped hyaena (Hyaena hyaena) at a site in Egyptian Nubia, and the interpretation of the bone breakage by striped hyaenas (Barbara Becker and Charles A. Reed) The Austrian "Blondvieh" cattle horncores - an archaeozoological view (Alfredo Riedel) From sedentism to domestication - a preliminary review for the southern Levant (Eitan Tchernov) Size and utilisation of the most importnat domesticated animals in Central Eurpoe from the beginning of domestication until the late Middle Ages (Manfred Teichert) Proposal for a separate nomenclature of domestic animals (Hans-Peter Uerpmann) The realm between wild and domestic (Eliaabeth S. Wing) The fauna of ancient Poland in the light of archaeozoologicalresearch (Piortr Wyrost)