Dear All,

Apologies for any cross-posting.

Please find below details on the recent publication of a volume I edited 
on the early occupation of the Mediterranean islands, some of which have 
a zooarchaeological perspective.

The First Mediterranean Islanders: Initial Occupation and Survival 
Strategies
edited by Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou 2011 (Oxford: Oxford University School 
of Archaeology Monographs)

The present volume provides a much needed contribution to island 
archaeology by examining the characteristics of the initial occupation 
of the Mediterranean islands. It enhances our understanding of the 
mechanisms, strategies, cultural contingencies and social alliances that 
enabled the consolidation of a permanent human presence in these 
settings. Particular attention is given to small islands, which can 
present increased demands on people to adapt and survive due to their 
more marginal environments, and on islands where recent research has led 
to a reassessment of the date and character of initial occupation. The 
research presented draws on examples from Cyprus, the Cyclades, the 
Adriatic, the Aeolian islands, and Malta, together with overviews of the 
Mediterranean and in comparison to Oceania.

The volume throws into relief the multi-layered and multi-dimensional 
theatre provided by the Mediterranean, drawing attention to the 
complexities of island occupation. The notion of fluid group identities 
created through practice in the 'small worlds' of the Neolithic 
highlights the necessity for an emphasis on the process of occupation 
and consolidation of island inhabitation. This volume will provide new 
perspectives and challenges for island colonisation both in the 
Mediterranean and further afield, the Neolithic period, and the 
development of archaeological theory.

Contents:
1 Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou: Introduction: the first Mediterranean islanders
2 Helen Dawson: Island colonisation: settling the Neolithic question
3 Alan Simmons: Re-writing the colonisation of Cyprus: tales of hippo 
hunters and cow herders
4 Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou: Initial occupation of the Cycladic islands in 
the Neolithic: strategies for survival
5 Stašo Forenbaher and Timothy Kaiser: Palagruža and the spread of 
farming in the Adriatic
6 Elena Flavia Castagnino Berlinghieri: Subsistence, mechanisms of 
interaction and human mobility in the Neolithic western Mediterranean: 
the nature of the occupation of Lipari (Aeolian islands, Sicily)
7 Anthony Bonanno: The lure of the islands: Malta’s first Neolithic 
colonisers
8 Atholl Anderson: Islands from the South: an Oceanian perspective on 
island colonisation
9 Chris Gosden: The small worlds of the (pre-)Neolithic Mediterranean

http://cambridge.academia.edu/NelliePhocaCosmetatou/Books
Where you can download Chapters 1 and 4.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Mediterranean-Islanders-Occupation-Strategies/dp/1905905203/

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/92448//Location/Oxbow

I hope you find it of interest,
With best wishes for the festive season and the New Year,

Nellie

-- 
Dr. Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou
Lecturer in Human Evolution
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
University of Cambridge
Fitzwilliam Street
Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
Tel: +44 1223 764 702
Fax: +44 1223 764 710
http://www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk/

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and then again erase yourself with magnanimity"
                                        O. Elytis

"I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people
who can see, but do not see."
                                        J. Saramago