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The second volume in a projected multi-volume series of archaeological site reports from southern Italy that will present a wealth of new information about the region's ancient rural economy.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments (Joseph Coleman Carter)
• Introduction (Joseph Coleman Carter and László Bartosiewicz)
• Chapter 1. Animal Husbandry from the Late Neolithic through the Roman Period (Sándor Bökönyi, edited by László Bartosiewicz with Erika Gál)
• Chapter 2. Animal Husbandry in Roman Metaponto (Sándor Bökönyi, edited by László Bartosiewicz with Erika Gâl)
• Chapter 3. Taphonomic Analysis of Bone Remains from the Chora of Metaponto (Erika Gál)
• Chapter 4. Bird Remains from the Chora of Metaponto (Erika Gál)
• Chapter 5. Bone Artifacts from the Chora of Metaponto (Erika Gál)
• Appendix: Bone Measurements
• References
• Index

About the Author

Sándor Bökönyi (1926–1994), an internationally renowned scholar, was one of the founders of modern archaeozoology after World War II. He worked especially in central and southeastern Europe and the Near East. He established the Archaeozoological Collections of the Hungarian National Museum and was employed subsequently by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, serving as president of the Institute of Archaeology.

Erika Gál received her Ph.D. in palaeontology in 2002. In addition to tertiary and quaternary palaeo-ornithology, she has subsequently specialized in the study of avian and mammalian bones, as well as bone artifacts from archaeological contexts. Currently she is based at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

László Bartosiewicz is senior lecturer in zooarchaeology at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. He has been teaching the same subject area as reader in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh since 2004. He was elected President of the International Council for Archaeozoology in 2006.