ABSTRACT
This chapter concernes with how animal domestication is reflected in faunal remains from archaeological sites, it is important to stress that concomitant changes in society are also manifest in other portions of the prehistoric record. To most of people, animal domestication implies the development of special kinds of human-animal relationships that, intuitively, seem different from those between hunter and prey. Yet, as some researchers have emphasized, there is a continuum of conceivable relationships stretching from random hunting through intentional game-cropping, herd-following, animal-penning and pet-keeping to the breeding of genetically isolated 'domestic' stock. One of the potentially most reliable indicators of the presence of a domestic animal is finding its remains at a site in a region that is beyond the natural range of its wild relatives. Arguments for animal domestication based on faunal remains from archaeological sites are likely to be more convincing if they employ multiple lines of evidence than if they are based on any one feature alone.
