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Preface ( Peter Rowley-Conwy, Umberto Albarella and Keith Dobney ) Introduction ( Terry O'Connor ) Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus ) in West Greenland ( Kerstin Pasda ) Magnitude of faunal accumulations by carnivores and humans in the South American Andes ( Mariana Mondini ) Anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic bird bone assemblages: New criteria for their distinction ( Veronique Laroulandie ) Owls, diurnal raptors and humans: Signatures on avian bones ( Zbigniew Bochenski ) Predator bias and fluctuating prey populations ( Jim Williams ) Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel: Experimental data and archaeological applications ( Sandrine Costamagno et al ) Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits: Implications for interpretation ( Fay Worley ) Microfossils in Camelid dung: Taphonomic considerations for the archaeological study of agriculture and pastoralism ( M Alejandra Korstanje ) Why ancient DNA research needs taphonomy ( Eva-Maria Geigl ) Bone density variation between simialr animals and density variation in early life: Implications for future taphonomic analysis ( Robert Symmons ) Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southwestern Sicily) ( Corrado Marziano and Salvatore Chilardi ) Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses: 'Ubeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study ( Miriam Belmaker ) Fragments of information: Preliminary taphonomic results from the Middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel ( Guy Bar-Oz et al ) Bone weathering and food procurement strategies: Assessing the the reliability of our behavioural inferences ( Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou ) Social changes in the early European Neolithic: A taphonomy perspective ( Arkadiusz Marciniak )