Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Living in the Anthropocene -- Calabrian hounds and roasted ivory (or, swerving from anthropocentrism) / Noah Heringman -- The end of the Neolithic? At the emergence of the Anthropocene / Christopher Witmore -- Rehearsing the Anthropocene in microcosm: the palaeoenvironmental impacts of the Pacific rat (Rattus Exulans) and other non-human species during island neolithization / Thomas P. Leppard -- Trans-holocene human impacts on California mussels (Mytilus Californianus): historical ecological management implications from the northern Channel Islands / Breana Campbell, Todd J. Braje, and Stephen G. Whitaker -- Drift / Þóra Pétursdóttir -- Part II. Multispecies ecology of the built environment -- Symbiotic architectures / Gavin Lucas -- The eco-ecumene and multispecies history: the case of abandoned protestant cemeteries in Poland / Ewa Domanska -- Ecologies of rock and art in northern New Mexico / Benjamin Alberti and Severin Fowles -- Oysters and mound-islands of crystal river along the central gulf coast of Florida / Victor D. Thompson and Thomas J. Pluckhahn -- Multi-species dynamics and the ecology of urban spaces in Roman antiquity / Michael MacKinnon -- Mammalian community assembly in ancient villages and towns in the Jordan Valley of Israel / Nimrod Marom and Lior Weissbrod -- Part III. Agrarian commitments: towards an archaeology of symbiosis -- Animals and the Neolithic: cui bono? / Terry O'Connor -- Making space from the position of duty of care: early Bronze Age human-sheep entanglements in Norway / Kristin Armstrong Oma -- The history of the human microbiome: insights from archaeology and ancient DNA / Laura S. Weyrich -- An archaeological telling of multispecies co-inhabitation: comments on the origins of agriculture and domestication narrative in southwest Asia / Brian Boyd -- Part IV. The ecology of movement -- Legs, feet and hooves: the seasonal roundup in Iceland / Oscar Aldred -- The rhythm of life: exploring the role of daily and seasonal rhythms in the development of human-nonhuman relationships in the British early Mesolithic / Nick J. Overton -- Seasonal mobility and multispecies interactions in the Mesolithic northeastern Adriatic / Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch -- 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 / Jamie Hodgkins, Petrus le Roux, Curtis W. Marean, Kirsty Penkman, Molly Crisp, Erich Fisher, and Julia Lee-Thorp -- Prey species movements and migrations in ecocultural landscapes: reconstructing late Pleistocene herbivore seasonal spatial behaviors / Kate Britton.