Publisher's Synopsis
This volume gathers research originally presented at the 8th Congress of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Victoria, Canada, in 1998, with the overarching goal of collecting data concerning human response to rapid environmental change in the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. The papers examine stratified, dated sites of the period 13,000 to 9,000 BP from across Eurasia and the Americas, and they all stress the importance of human/environment interaction, largely from a cultural ecological standpoint common to much environmental archaeology in general and zooarchaeology in particular.
