Animals and People. Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug

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Ina Plug: a tribute / Shaw Badenhorst -- Zooarchaeology in Southern Africa: a view from the north / Terry O'Connor -- Archaeozoology at the Transvaal Museum and its future in South Africa / Karin Scott -- Models for zooarchaeologists from modern bushmeat studies / Jonathan C. Driver -- The contribution of Sibudu fauna to an understanding of Kwazulu-Natal environments at ~60 ka, ~50 ka and ~37 ka / Lyn Wadley, Ina Plug, and Jamie L. Clark -- Variability and change in middle Stone Age hunting behaviour: aspects from the lithic and faunal records / Marlize Lombard and Jamie L. Clark -- Archaeobiodiversity of ichthyofaunas from the holocene Sahel / Nadja Pöllath, Joris Peters, and Hélène Jousse -- Shrews from Ein el Gazzareen, Dakhleh Oasis, western desert, Egypt / C.S. Churcher -- Human and animal interaction on the Shire Highlands, Malawi: the evidence from Malowa Rockshelter / Yusuf M. Juwayeyi -- Early herders in southern Africa: a synthesis / Andrew B. Smith -- The canine connection: dogs and southern African hunter-gatherers / Peter Mitchell -- Fishing in the Senegal River during the Iron Age: the evidence from the habitation mounds of Cubalel and Siouré / Wim van Neer -- Early Iron Age regional settlement and demographic patterns along the eastern seaboard of South Africa: a view from the lower Thukela River Valley / Haskel J. Greenfield and Leonard O. van Schalkwyk -- A consideration of livestock exploitation during the early Iron Age in the Thukela Valley, Kwazulu-Natal / Elizabeth R. Arnold -- Social memory and the antiquity of snake and crocodile symbolism in southern Africa / Kent D. Fowler -- Symbolic animal burials from the Venda region in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Louisa Hutten -- Zhizo and leopard's kopje: test excavations at Simamwe and Mtanye, Zimbabwe / T.N. Huffman -- Subsistence change among farming communities in southern Africa during the last two millennia: a search for potential causes / Shaw Badenhorst.