Dear Carine:
For your colleague interested in lion remains in Near/Middle East, here are a few citations that I know of, and Im sure there are many others. Note the incomplete date (year) on the Wilkens reference.
Cheers,
Ed Maher
Post-Doctoral Research Scientist
The Field Museum
Boessneck, J., and A. von den Driesch
1978 Preliminary Analysis of the Animal Bones from Tell Hesban. Andrews University Seminary Studies 16: 259-287.
Kaplan, J.
1972 The Archaeology and History of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Biblical Archaeologist
35:66-95.
Maher, E. F.
2002 Food for the Gods: Sacred Animal Use at Tel Miqne-Ekron. Albright News
7:11-16.
Wapnish, P. and B. Hesse
1991 Faunal Remains from Tel Dan: Perspectives on Animal Production at a
Village, Urban and Ritual Center. Archaeozoologia 4:9-86.
2000 Mammal Remains from the Early Bronze Sacred Compound. In Megiddo
III: The 1992-1996 Seasons, edited by I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B.
Halpern, pp. 429-462. Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology,
Tel Aviv.
Wilkens, B.
19?? The Faunal Remains. In: S.M. Cecchini and S. Mazzoni, eds., Tell Asif (Syria): The 1988-1992 Excavations on the Acropolis, pp:433-450. Estratto,
Edizioni Ets.
