Multispecies Archaeology explores the issue of ecological and cultural novelty in the archaeological record from a multispecies perspective. Encompassing more than just our relationships with animals the book considers what we can learn about the human past without humans as the focus of the question. The volume digs deep into our understanding of interaction with plants, fungi, microbes, and even the fundamental building blocks of life, DNA. Multispecies Archaeology examines what it means to be human-and non-human-from a variety of perspectives providing a new lens through which to view the past.

Part I: Living in the Anthropocene; 1. Calabrian Hounds and Roasted Ivory; 2. The End of the 'Neolithic'? At the emergence of the Anthropocene; 3. Rehearsing the Anthropocene in microcosm: the palaeoenvironmental impacts of the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) and other non-human species during island Neolithization; 4. Trans-Holocene Human Impacts on California Mussels (Mytilus californianus): Historical Ecological Management Implications from the Northern Channel Islands; 5. Drift; 6. Symbiotic Architectures; 7. The Eco-Ecumene and Multispecies History: The Case of Abandoned Protestant Cemeteries in Poland; 8. Ecologies of Rock and Art in Northern New Mexico; 9. Oysters and Mound-Islands of Crystal River along the Central Gulf Coast of Florida; 10. Multi-species Dynamics and the Ecology of Urban Spaces in Roman Antiquity; 11. Mammalian Community Assembly in Ancient Villages and Towns in the Jordan Valley of Israel; 12. Animals and the Neolithic: cui bono?; 13. Making space from the position of duty of care: Early Bronze Age human - sheep entanglements in Norway.; 14. The History of the Human Microbiome: Insights from Archaeology and Ancient DNA; 15. An archaeological telling of multispecies co-inhabitation: comments on the origins of agriculture and domestication narrative in southwest Asia; 16. Legs, feet and hooves: the seasonal roundup in Iceland; 17. The Rhythm of Life: Exploring the role of daily and seasonal rhythms in the development of human-nonhuman relationships in the British Early Mesolithic; 18. Seasonal mobility and multispecies interactions in the Mesolithic northeastern Adriatic; 19. The role of ostrich in shaping the landscape use patterns of humans and hyenas on the southern coast of South Africa during the late Pleistocene; 20. Prey species movements and migrations in ecocultural landscapes: reconstructing late Pleistocene herbivore seasonal spatial behaviors; Index