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Dear colleagues! We should recollect what the term "ZOOLOGY" means. The zoology is the science about an animal! About ANY animals - from bacteria up to the elephants. As opposed to BOTANY - science about any plants. I can tell it to you as the biologist. Thus, the term "archaeozoology" in my opinion should mean research of ANY zoological remains from a site which has appeared as result of human activity in those periods of a history, which are archaeological investigated. Therefore, it are important and productive to researche the rests of insects, and shells, and fishes, and birds, certainly. (For example researches of settlements of " Culture of a shell's heaps " on Far East and Japan is impossible without arhaeozoological research of shells of molluscs!) If the human did not participate in formation this taphocenosis, PALAEOZOOLOGY engages a study of such animal remains. In my opinion it is not necessary to think, that the research of some one groups animal from archaeological monuments is less important than another. I consider, that it would be possible to use the general term ARCHAEOBIOLOGY. Sincerely Alexey Kasparov. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%