The Fundamentals of Zooarchaeology in Japan

Akira Matsui

The Fundamentals of Zooarchaeology in Japan is a bilingual (Japanese and English) guidebook to the identification of excavated faunal remains intended for the use of archaeology researchers as well as zoology and paleontology students and researchers who have no access to faunal skeletal speciments for reference. It includes illustrations of important species and bone elements for systematic comparison. The volume outlines sieving techniques, and then features fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds, middle-sized mammals, large-sized mammals, large-sized domestic animals, marine mammals and humans.

Akira MATSUI is a Senior Researcher at the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and concurrently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University.

publication year: 2011
328 pages
ISBN: 978-4876-98-735-1  Hardback  S$98.00

Distributed for Kyoto University Press.