Description: The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity.
Brief description: Erika Gál is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest. She completed her PhD in Palaeontology at the University of Bucharest in 2002. Her research focuses on the study of animal remains from archaeological sites in the Carpathian Basin with special interest in bird bones.
Review Quotes: Laszlo Bartosiewicz's new book on animal paleopathology is going to become an essential reader for all students of zooarchaeology...The text, interestingly and fluently written, puts the different types of lesions that zooarchaeologists encounter into the context of the prehistory and history of animal husbandry and other relationships between people and animals.--Dale Serjeantson, University of Southampton