Animals: cultural identifiers in ancient societies?

These proceedings of a conference in Munich from 4th to 6th April 2016 contains a list of authors, a preface, and 25 contributions. These papers deal with urban Roman pigs in the 1st millenium A. D., animal palaeopathology, early farmers in the southern Caucasus, activity areas at Aşıklı Höyük, discarding practices amongst 3rd-millenium herders in Chile, bucrania as a social marker in Bronze Age Sudan, animal exploitation at Çukuriçi Höyük in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, Celtic archaeozoology at Manching, palaeogenetics, camels in cuneiform inscriptions, food production in the Upper Tigris Valley, the Holocene fauna of northern Sudan, Joachim Boessneck’s work in Iran, Mongolian horses and their fate, horse cures in Tibetan medicine, the European Hake in Iberia, the diet of caprines in Early Neolithic Anatolia, hunting religion in western Greenland, polled cattle, the taphonomy of a French Neolithic site, Theodoricus Cerviensis’ 13th-century Mulomedicina, funeral sacrifices of camel and horse in pre-Islamic south-eastern Arabia, a fish deposit at Oxyrhynchus, the beginnings of cat domestication in eastern and western Asia, as well as the ethnobiology of donkey and camel management on the Afar salt route.