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1.2. General plan of Burial Six with photographs of a complete golden eagle and puma head
1.3. Feline crania: jaguar and puma
1.4. Pathologies present on Element 1984: left ulna and radius, and humerus
1.6. General plan of Burial Three and photograph of canid cranium (Element 574)
1.7. Postholes of cage that surrounded a wolf (Element 213) in Burial Two
1.8. General plan of Burial Five and photograph of a rattlesnake (Element 1021).
2.1. Reconstruction drawing of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan.
2.2. Location of Offering 125, west of the Tlaltecuhtli monolith
2.3. Monumental stone frame in the shape of an inverted, stepped pyramid
2.4. Offering 125: deepest excavation level, with canine skeleton
2.5. Offering 125: uppermost excavation level, with eagle skeletons and marine animals
2.6. Male golden eagle’s wings
2.7. The layers or “dangers” conducting to the Underworld
3.1. Location of Cerro Baúl in southern Peru
3.2. Ten summit contexts, Cerro Baúl
3.3. Key to animals found at Cerro Baúl
3.4. Distribution of animal remains across the site
3.5. Plan view of Unit 26, with detail of llama offering
4.1. Mesoamerica, with San Bartolo and other Late Preclassic Maya sites
4.2. Major sites of excavation at San Bartolo
4.3. Section of the North Wall murals
4.4. The West Wall murals, depicting four sacrifices to the Principal Bird Deity
4.5. Comparison of Preclassic and Late Classic animal taxa from domestic and ritual contexts
5.1. Sites discussed in the text
6.1. Paquimé and the surrounding region
6.2. Paquimé: rooms discussed in the text
6.3. Percentages and frequencies of avian remains found at Paquimé
6.4. Distribution of macaw burials within the main room block at Paquimé
6.5. Base design and profile shape of ceramic hand drums from Paquimé
7.1. Chaco Canyon with locations of Great Houses and the Casa Rinconada study area
7.2. Casa Rinconada, indicating locations of Bc 57, Bc 58, and the Great Kiva
7.4. Artiodactyl Index by site over time for Bc 57, Bc 58, 29SJ627, and Pueblo Alto
7.5. Artiodactyl Percent NISP over time for Chaco Canyon sites
7.6. Skeletal-element representation for Room 4, Bc 57
8.1. Study area around Monterey Bay, California
8.2. Fur seal age classes at CA-MNT-234
9.1. Location of Racot, site 18 in the Polish lowlands
9.2. Plan map of a portion of Racot, site 18
9.3. Bone fragmentation of cattle, sheep/goat, and pigs from loam pits, phase IIA
9.4. Bone fragmentation of cattle, sheep/goat, and pigs from internal and external pits, phase IIB
9.5. Distribution of cut and chop marks on skeletons of cattle and sheep/goats.
9.6. Frequency of fracture types for cattle, sheep/goat, and pigs from loam pits, phase IIA
10.1. Location of sites mentioned in the text
10.2. Survivorship for sheep based on mandibular-wear stages
10.3. Biometric data showing distal breadth measurements for sheep metacarpals
11.1. Location of Kültepe-Kanesh
11.2. Old Assyrian trade network in Anatolia
11.3. City mound and kārum of Kanesh
12.1. Foundation sacrifice, Anyang, Xiaotun
12.2. Reconstruction of ancestral temple for a fu (Fu Hao), Anyang, Xiaotun
12.3. The afterlife of things: charioteer and chariot in Yinxu site-museum chariot display
12.4. Chariots of the ancestors: Anyang, Angang steel works
12.5. A dog death-attendant with bronze bell on top of tomb chamber, Sipanmo, Anyang
12.6. Lu: inscribed trophy deer skull, and antler arrowhead
12.7. Niu: inscribed oracle-bone, and hairpin
13.1. Locations discussed in the text
13.2. Three major monumental contexts: slab burials, deer-stone sites, and khirigsuurs
13.3. Excavated satellite features from Egiin Gol
13.4. Three typical khirigsuurs
13.5. Images and plans of two large khrigsuurs: Urt Balagyn and Shurgan Bayan Am
14.1. Project area and historical kingdoms in and near modern Benin
14.5. Nineteenth-century engraving of the Temple of the Python, Ouidah, Benin
15.1. Frequency of pigs: pre-Roman and Roman Italy, and four Roman provincial regions
15.4. Mean withers heights for cattle, sheep/goat, and pig: Republican and Imperial contexts, Italy
16.1. Eastern England: West Stow West and Brandon sites in Suffolk
16.2. Species ratios, faunal assemblages from West Stow West and the original West Stow phases 1–3
16.4. Mortality profile for sheep from West Stow West
16.5. Species ratios for the main large domestic mammals from Brandon
16.6. Mortality profile for the sheep from Middle Anglo-Saxon Brandon
17.1. Variation in representation of deer remains on sites of different type
17.2. Relative frequency of body parts of deer from Early Anglo-Saxon sites
17.3. Relative frequency of body parts of deer from Middle Anglo-Saxon sites
17.4. Relative frequency of body parts of deer from Late Anglo-Saxon sites
17.6. Relative frequency of body parts of deer from urban sites, later medieval period