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Animal bones (ICAZ). SHARYN JONES O'DAY, WIM WIM Windows Image (Microsoft)WIM Wireless Identification ModuleWIM Weight-In-MotionWIM Woe Is MeWIM Wireless Instant MessagingWIM Window Invalid Mask (SPARC architecture)VAN NEER & ANTON ERVYNCK (ed.).Behaviour behind bones: the zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, statusand identity (Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the InternationalCouncil of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002). xv+334 pages, 265figures & tables. 2004. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-113-5 hardback 70[pounds sterling]. MARIANA MONDINI, SEBASTIAN MUNOZ & STEPHEN WICKLER (ed.).Colonisation, migration and marginal areas: a zooarchaeological approachto identity (Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the InternationalCouncil of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002). viii+120 pages, 69figures & tables. 2004. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-114-3 hardback 30[pounds sterling]. ROEL C.G.M. LAUWERIER & INA PLUG (ed.). The future from thepast: archaeozoology in wildlife conservation and heritage management(Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council ofArchaeozoology, Durham, August 2002). viii+175 pages, 98 figures &tables. 2004. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-115-1 hardback 40 [poundssterling]. The Council's conference proceedings comprise more than 60substantive papers plus some introductions and methodologicaldisquisitions. Most are case studies, drawn from every part of the worldand, in Behaviour and Colonisation, almost every period of prehistory prehistory,period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to and history but for a paucity on the Palaeolithic. They are contributedby scholars from many countries. A selective list can give some sense of the imaginative variety.Behaviour contributes to the theme of values in eating ('Beyondcalories'), including JONES O'DAY with some ethnography fromFiji, R. Cooke on Cocle semiotics (Panama), a couple of papers on Egypt,and an investigation of Phoenician acculturation acculturation,culture changes resulting from contact among various societies over time. Contact may have distinct results, such as the borrowing of certain traits by one culture from another, or the relative fusion of separate cultures. on Malta. The secondpart of the volume considers social contexts, including Cooke again onCocle, dog in West Africa West AfricaA region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century.West African adj. & n. , kosher in Medieval Buda, and Native and slavediets in the USA. Colonisation includes several studies from theAmericas, from Arctic to subantarctic with the Colonial Chesapeake onthe way, while G. Bar-Oz et al. report on 'faunalexploitation' in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the Caucasus.A.J. Legge ruminates on the collection, picking out A. Outram on fats innortherly latitudes: 'followers of the ... "Atkins" diet... are reinventing the wheel, but not necessarily to ... bestadvantage' (p. 118). The future is a distinctive and satisfyingcollection, including 'fish management' (E. Reitz),'sexual segregation and cub mortality in periglacial ''You may be looking for paraglacial, meaning unstable conditions related to local glaciation in the recent past.Periglacial is an adjective referring to places in the edges of glacial areas, normally those related to past ice ages rather than those in the modern era. cavebear', education on palaeontology near Mexico City, 'turtlesof the past: a vision for the future', 'law enforcement and... conservation in ... South Africa', 'Bone diagenesis',and papers on professional practice--not to ignore 'Hunting inMedieval Moldavia'.