Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in West Greenland / Kerstin Pasda -- Magnitude of faunal accumulations by carnivores and humans in the South American Andes / Mariana Mondini -- Anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic bird bone assemblages : new criteria for their distinction / Véronique Laroulandie -- Owls, diurnal raptors, and humans : signatures on avian bones / Zbigniew Bochenski -- Predator bias and fluctuating prey populations / Jim Williams -- Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel : experimental data and archaeological applications / Sandrine Costamagno [and others] -- Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits : implications for interpretation / Fay Worley -- Microfossils in camelid dung : taphonomic considerations for the archaeological study of agriculture and pastoralism / M. Alejandra Korstanje -- Why ancient DNA research needs taphonomy / Eva-Maria Geigl -- Bone density variation between similar animals and density variation in early life : implications for future taphonomic analysis / Robert Symmons -- Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southeastern Sicily) / Corrado Marziano and Salvatore Chilardi -- Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses : ʻUbeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study / Miriam Belmaker -- Fragments of information : preliminary taphonomic results from the middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel / Guy Bar-Oz [and others] -- Bone weathering and food procurement strategies : assessing the reliability of our behavioural inferences / Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou -- Social changes in the early European Neolithic : a taphonomy perspective / Arkadiusz Marciniak.