Elizabeth J. Reitz is Professor Emerita at the University of Georgia. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the International Council for Zooarchaeology Committee of Honor, and recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Fryxell and Southeastern Archaeological Conference Lifetime Achievement awards. Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is a recipient of the Society for American Archaeology's Outstanding Public Archaeology Initiative Award, and the Society for Historical Archaeology's Gender and Minority Affairs Committee Diversity Field School Award. Elizabeth S. Wing is Curator Emerita at the University of Florida. She is a National Academy of Sciences inductee, International Council for Zooarchaeology Committee of Honor member, and recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Fryxell Award and the University of Florida's President's Medallion.

• List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Zooarchaeology; 2. Zooarchaeological history and theory; 3. Basic biology; 4. Ecology; 5. Collections, curation, and dissemination; 6. Disposal of faunal remains and sample recovery; 7. Gathering primary data; 8. Secondary data; 9. Humans as predators: subsistence and other uses of animals; 10. Domestication; 11. Evidence for former environmental conditions; 12. Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century; Appendix 1. Taxonomic list; Appendix 2. Anatomical drawings; Appendix 3. Hypothetical Collection Data; Bibliography; Systematic Index; Topical Index.

'Current challenges in our relationship with animals make an understanding of their history essential. The superb Cambridge Manual in Zooarchaeology has been a unique and essential tool for teaching and research for decades. I am delighted to see this third edition published - such a substantial update provides us with great new opportunities for discovery and dissemination.' Umberto Albarella, University of Sheffield