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xi Acknowledgments My first and greatest thanks go to Linda Kalof (Michigan State University ), who invited me to write this book and who has overseen its production and dealt with countless e-mails. I am indebted to Seven Bryant (Michigan State University) for obtaining all the copyright permissions for the illustrations and for sorting out the ensuing complications . My thanks are due to Richard Meadow (director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory, Peabody Museum, Harvard University) for illustrations and for his comments on the draft of chapter 7. I would like to thank James Serpell (University of Pennsylvania) for writing his very supportive foreword. Finally, I thank those authors and institutions that have allowed their illustrations to be reproduced without charge: Agnes Arnold-Forster, Joel Berger, Louis Chaix, Joost Crouwel, Galen Frysinger, Colin Groves, Rebecca Jewell, Richard Meadow, Steven Mithen, Joan Oates, Bob Partridge, Julian Thomas, Laverne Waddington, Ya-Ping Zhang, Amerind Foundation, Free World Academy, Hungarian National Museum, Kenyon Institute, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. ...

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