Table of Contents

1. Combining Stones and Bones, Defining Form and Function, Inferring Lives and Roles(BRAD GRAVINA, RYAN J. RABETT AND KRISH SEETAH)

Part 1: Taphonomy and Technology

2. When Bones are Not Enough: Lithic Refits and Occupation Dynamics in the Middle Palaeolithic Level 10 of Roca dels Bous (Catalonia, Spain)(IGNACIO DE LA TORRE, JORGE MARTÍNEZ-MORENO AND RAFAEL MORA)

3. Testing the Spatial Association of Lithic and Faunal Remains: a Case Study from the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Holon (Israel)(HERVÉ MONCHOT, MICHAEL CHAZAN AND LIORA KOLSKA HORWITZ)

4. The Palaeolithic Poor Relation? Taphonomic Approaches to Archaeofaunas and their Implication for the Study of European Lower Palaeolithic Subsistence(GEOFF M. SMITH)

5. Reconstructing Animal-butchering Technology: Slicing Cut Marks from the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve Yam, Israel(HASKEL J. GREENFIELD AND LIORA KOLSKA HORWITZ)

6. Cause and Effect: the Impact of Animal Variables on Experimentally Produced Bone Lesions(SHAW BADENHORST)

Part 2: Raw Materials, Operational Sequences and Decision-making

7. Guanaco Butchering by Hunter-gatherers from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Southern Patagonia(A. SEBASTIÁN MUÑOZ)

8. Diversity and Applications: Some Bone Tools from the Past to the Present in Southern Africa(INA PLUG)

9. Mammoth Bone Technology at Tocuila in the Basin of Mexico(EILEEN JOHNSON, JOAQUIN ARROYO-CABRALES AND LUIS MORETT)

Part 3: Subsistence and Cultural Practice

10. Don’t Smash Those Bones! Anatomical Representation and Bone Tool Manufacture in the Pampean Region (Argentina, South America) (DANIEL LOPONTE AND NATACHA BUC)

11. Eating Your Tools: Early Butchery and Craft Modification of Primate Bones in Tropical Southeast Asia(RYAN J. RABETT AND PHILIP J. PIPER)

12. Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Transition: Environmental Adaptation or Social Transformation?(FARINA STERNKE AND LAURENT-JACQUES COSTA)

Index