This is a massive volume of fifty-four papers in memory of Sándor
Bökönyi, the eminent Hungarian zooarchaeologist and author of an
impressively long list of publications. The papers, by archaeologists,
zooarchaeologists, historians, anthropologists and comparative
linguists, reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of his work. They
mainly concentrate on the zooarchaeology of prehistoric Central and
Eastern Europe, ranging from the theoretical ( Attitudes to pets in the
ethnolinguistic record by Eszter Bánffy) to the firmly practical (
Comments on fish skeletal representation from Iberian archaeological
settlements by Arturo Morales Muñiz and Eufrasia Roselló Izquierdo).
Other papers include: Can animal bones reflect household activities? A
case study from a prehistoric site in Greece (Cornelia Becker); Of horse
burial and horsemanship in Magna Grecia (Joseph Carter); Bronze Age red
deer: case studies from the great Hungarian plain (Alic Choyke); The
role of artificial selection in evolutionary thought (Juliet Clutton
Brock); The Shanidar Cave Neanderthals: a reconstruction of their
lifeways (Ralph Solecki).