The concept of ‘‘sustainable use’’ is a polemic, especially when referring to wildlife and other ‘‘natural resources.’’ Claims vary from persistent overuse to traditional practices of sustaining the resource base. Arguments for either side routinely draw from contemporary situations, relying on relatively short time periods. But, if the notion ‘‘sustainable’’ is to be consequential, the period ...

Our understanding of the history of animal domestication has been built on regular input from archaeozoology. This fast-expanding discipline uses increasingly sophisticated and specialised tools to enhance our knowledge of phenomena dating back, for the oldest species, to the Neolithic Revolution. This article takes three examples, those of the domestic dog, domestic goat and European rabbit, t...

William F. Hutchinson1, Mark Culling1, David C. Orton2, Bernd Hänfling1, Lori Lawson Handley1, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer3, Tamsin C. O’Connell4, Michael P. Richards5,6 and James H. Barrett4 1Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK 2BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 3SH-D ArchaeoZoology, 5 Suffolk Aven...

this paper deals with the preliminary observations of the analysis conducted on the faunal remains unearthed at thesite of shikarpur. a single trench es4 was selected as a research sample from the excavation conducted by thedepartment of archaeology and ancient history; m.s. university of baroda, gujarat state, india in 2007-08. atotal of 6250 skeletal fragments were analysed of which only 3219...