Archaeozoology of the Near East X : Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas / edited by Bea De Cupere, Veerle Linseele, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer.

Includes bibliographical references.

Faunal remains from Wadi Abu Tulayha : a PPNB outpost in the steppe-desert of southern Jordan / Hitomi Hongo, Lubna Omar, Hiroo Nasu, Petra Krönneck and Sumio Fujii -- Evaluating differences in animal consumption patterns from PPNB houses at Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley, Syria) / Carlos Tornero, Miquel Molist and Maria Sana -- Changing animal use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Nerissa Russell, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton and G. Arzu Demirergi -- Herding and settlement identity in the central Anatolian Neolithic : herding decisions and organisation in Çatalhöyük, elucidated through oxygen isotopes and microwear in sheep teeth / Elizabeth Henton -- Chalcolithic pig remains from Çamlıbel Tarlası, Central Anatolia / Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Roz Gillis, Linus Girdland Flink, Allowen Evin,...[et al] -- Bronze and Iron Age subsistence changes in the Upper Tigris : zooarchaeology of Operation E at Ziyaret Tepe, south-eastern Turkey / Tina L. Greenfield-Jongsma and Haskel J. Greenfield -- New data on the exploitation of animal resources in the Upper Tigris River area (Turkey) during the second and first millenia BC / Remi Berthon -- What is inside this pit? Micro- and macrofaunal investigations at Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ovçular Tepesi (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan) / Zsofia E. Kovacs, Remi Berthon, Wim Van Neer and Thomas Cucchi -- Royal tombs with horse sacrifices in Nerkin Naver, Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) / Hakob Simonyan and Ninnna Manaseryan -- The mysteries of Egyptian Nile perch (lates niloticus). The case of Tell Tweini (Syria, Middle Bronze Age-Iron Age) / Veerle Linseele, Wim Van Neer and Joachim Bretschneider -- Zooarchaeology and social identity in Bronze Age and Iron Age Israel : a research framework / Nimrod Marom and Guy Bar-Oz -- Persian period dog burials in the Levant : new evidence from Tell el-Burak (Lebanon) and a reconsideration of the phenomenon / Canan Çakırlar, Verena Amer, Jens Kamlah and Helene Sader -- Environmental influence on animal exploitation and meat consumption during the Early Islamic period in Syria. A case study from Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi and al-Hadir / Jacqueline Studer, Denis Genequand and Marie-Odile Rousset -- A leopard in the Predynastic Elite Cemetery HK6 at Hierakonpolis, Egypt / Wim Van Neer, Bea De Cupere and Renée Friedman -- A tale of two sites : Old Kingdom subsistence economy and the infrastructure of pyramid construction / Richard W. Redding -- Animal bone assemblages from a Bronze Age palace at Tell el-Dab'a, Egypt / Günter Karl Kunst -- Tomb of the Dogs in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi (Middle Egypt, Late to Ptolemaic-Roman period) : preliminary results on the canid remains / Chiori Kitagawa -- Pampered puss? Cats from the Roman port of Myos Hormos at Quseir, Egypt / Sheila Hamilton-Dyer -- The goats (Capra hircus L.) from Kerma (Sudan) (2050-1750 BC)- A contribution to the knowledge of African goats / Louis Chaix -- New evidence for dog butchering from prehistoric coastal sites in the Sultane of Oman / Elena Maini and Antonio Curci.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 10th international meeting of the working group "Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas" (ASWA X). The meeting took place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium) from June 28 to June 30, 2011. The 20 contributions presented here deal with a wide range of topics related to the human-animal interactions and gather the results of research that has been conducted in Anatolia and the Levant, more eastern regions (Armenia and Azerbaijan), northern Africa (Egypt and Sudan) and Oman. Research questions include issues such as the exploitation of animal resources, changing animal use, herding practices, social differences and/or identities, trade, animal burials and sacrifices, and cover periods ranging from the PPNB up to the Early Islamic period.