This volume dedicated to Joris Peters on the occasion of his 65th birthday contains a bibliography, a foreword, greetings, eulogies, an author's list and 25 papers. These deal with Copper Age cattle and conservatism in Anatolia, late hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Brandenburg, Iron Age animal figurines from Dülük Baba Tepesi, molluscs in the El Argar culture, foxes in Upper Mesopotamia, Latin veterinary medical recipes, faunal remains from Copper Age Anatolia and Neolithic Turkey, caponisation in Early Modern times, the excavation, collection and preservation of human skeletons, camel remains from the Near East, Arabia, and Europe, animals bones in Egyptian texts, pre-Ptolemaic animal mummies from Tuna el-Gebel, the absence of freshwater pearls from Bronze and Iron Age southern Central Europe, the question of working cattle in the Rössen culture, the ageing of rat bones, animal bones in Roman burials from Potzneusiedl, the development of goat exploitation at Tell Halula, Roman angling and fishing in the zone north of the Alps, rickets and osteomalacia in animals, a Roman horse skeleton, nutrition in Bronze Age Yemen, and Medieval molluscs from Ecuador.