The 4^th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group was held in Cracow, Poland on September 11-15, 2001. The meeting brought together archaeologists, zoologists and ornithologists from eighteen countries. The subjects discussed covered all aspects of the relationships between humans and birds. The proceedings will be published as a separate issue of Acta zoologica cracoviensia in 2002.

List of participants (authors & TITLES OF CONTRIBUTIONS) (includes also people who registered and sent contributions but did not manage to attend in person)

Umberto Albarella, UK (Albarella U. & Thomas R.: THEY DINED ON CRANE: BIRD CONSUMPTION, WILD FOWLING AND STATUS IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND)

Oleg Bendukidze, GEORGIA (Bendukidze O.: THE WILD HEN AT THE PALEOLITHIC AGE IN THE EAST EUROPE AND CAUCASIA)

Zbigniew M. Bocheński, POLAND (see Tomek T.)

Zygmunt Bocheński, POLAND (Bocheński Z.: BIRD FAUNA OF THE OBLAZOWA 1, POLAND - ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL IMPLICATIONS)

Zlatozar Boev, BULGARIA (Boev Z.: TETRAONIDAE VIGORS, 1825 (GALLIFORMES - AVES) IN THE NEOGENE-QUATERNARY RECORDS FROM BULGARIA AND THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE FAMILY)

Don R. Brothwell, UK (Brothwell D.: ANCIENT AVIAN OSTEOPETROSIS; THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE)

Oliver John Foreman Brown, AUSTRALIA/UK (A PILOT STUDY IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF BIRD BONES USING MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL SOFTWARE)

Annia Kristina Cherryson, UK (Cherryson A.K.: THE IDENTIFICATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR HAWKING IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND)

Eduardo Corona-Martinez, MEXICO (Corona-M. E.: PLEISTOCENE BIRD RECORDS FROM MEXICO)

Linas Daugnora, LITHUANIA (Daugnora L., Bilskien R., Lahtipera P.: BIRD SPECIES FROM NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENTS IN LITHUANIA)

Zbigniew Derda, POLAND (see Godula G.)

Frank J. Dirrigl, Jr, USA (Dirrigl F.J.,Jr.: DIFFERENTIAL IDENTIFIABILITY BETWEEN GALLINACEOUS SKELETONS AND THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENTIAL SURVIVORSHIP)

Keith Dobney, UK (Dobney K. & Jaques D.: FARMERS, MONKS AND ARISTOCRATS: AVIAN SIGNATURES FOR IDENTITY AND STATUS IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND)

Andrzej Elżanowski, POLAND (no contribution)

Angela von den Driesch, GERMANY (Driesch, von den A.: BIRDS OF PREY IN RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF TUNA EL-GEBEL)

Erika Gál, ROMANIA (Gál E.: THE NEOLITHIC BIRD FAUNA OF HARSOVA, SOUTH-EAST ROMANIA)

Monica Gala, ITALY (Tagliacozzo A. & Gala M.: EXPLOITATION OF ANSERIFORMES AT TWO UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SITES IN SOUTHERN ITALY: GROTTA ROMANELLI, LECCE, APULIA AND GROTTA DELLA MADONNA A PRAIA A MARE, COSENZA, CALABRIA))

Grażyna Godula, POLAND (Godula G., Wróbel J., Derda Z. & Tomek T.: AVIAN ARTEFACTS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN CRACOV)

Dorota Gorzelany, POLAND (no contribution)

Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, DENMARK: 1- (Gotfredsen A. B.: ANCIENT WEST GREENLAND OCCURRENCES OF GEESE (GENERA ANSER AND BRANTA): MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOMETRIC APPROACHES); 2 - (see Makowiecki D.)

Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, UK (Hamilton-Dyer S.: THE BIRD RESOURCES OF MEDIEVAL NOVGOROD, RUSSIA)

Jude Higgins, USA (Higgins J.: CUT MARK FREQUENCY AS A MEASURE OF PREHISTORIC RESOURCE DEPRESSION: A PRELIMINARY TEST USING UTAH AVIFAUNAS)

Pavlo Hura, UKRAINE: 1 - (Hura P.: FOSSIL BIRDS OF WESTERN UKRAINE); 2 - (Hura P.: HOLOCENE BIRD REMAINS FROM PRYJMA-VII CAVE, LVIV REGION, UKRAINE)

Eugen Kessler, ROMANIA (Kessler E.: BIRD REMAINS FROM THE NEOLITHIC SITE POPINA BORDUSANI, IALOMITA COUNTY, ROMANIA)

Véronique Laroulandie, FRANCE (Laroulandie V.: DAMAGE TO PIGEON LONG BONES IN PELLETS OF BUBO BUBO AND FOOD REMAINS OF FALCO PEREGRINUS: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS)

Alicja Lasota-Moskalewska, POLAND (no contribution)

Frédéric Laudet, FRANCE (Laudet F. & Senegas F.: OWLS, LARGE PREYS AND MULIREJECTION: TAPHONOMIC IMPLICATIONS)

Daniel Makowiecki, POLAND (Makowiecki D. & Gotfredsen A.B.: BIRD REMAINS OF MEDIEVAL AND POST-MEDIEVAL COASTAL SITES AT THE SOUTHERN BALTIC SEA, POLAND)

Laura Mameli, SPAIN: 1 - (Estevez J., Mameli L., Natalie R. & Goodall P.: A COMPUTER ATLAS FOR TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION IN AVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: A FIRST ATTEMPT WITH BIRD SPECIES FROM SOUTHERMOST SOUTH AFRICA); 2 - (Mameli L.: MANAGEMENT OF BIRD RESOURCES IN THE EXTREME SOUTH OF AMERICA DURING 19TH CENTURY)

Nina Manaseryan, ARMENIA (Manaseryan N. & Balyan L.: BIRDS OF THE ANCIENT ARMENIA)

Kristiina Mannermaa, FINLAND (Mannermaa K.: BIRD BONES FROM STONE AGE BALTIC SEA ARCHIPELAGO ENVIRONMENT FROM LAND, FINLAND)

Nicolay Martynovich, RUSSIA (Martynovich N.: FOSSIL BIRDS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF THE YELENEV' CAVE, CENTRAL SIBERIA, YENISEI RIVER)

Krystyna Moczulska, POLAND (no contribution)

Lourdes Navarijo Ornelas, MEXICO (Navarijo Ornelas L.: BIRDS IN THE WAY OF THINKING OF THE PREHISTORIC MAYA MAN)

Dragana Novacovic, YUGOSLAVIA (Novacovic D.: AVIFAUNA OF VRELSKA CAVE)

Terry O'Connor, UK (no contribution)

Elisabeth von den Osten-Sacken, GERMANY (Osten-Sacken, von den E.: SOME ASPECTS OF BIRD KEEPING IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA)

Wietske Prummel, THE NETHERLANDS (Prummel W. & Zeiler J.T.: BIRD REMAINS FROM 17TH CENTURY WHALING STATIONS ON SPITSBERGEN, SVALBARD)

Alexandra Recchi, ITALY (Gopher A. & Recchi A.: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRDS AND HUMAN ANCIENT POPULATIONS IN THE NEAR EAST: THE CASE OF QUMRAN CAVE 24, DEAD SEA, ISRAEL)

Isabelle Robert, FRANCE (Robert I. & Vigne J.-D.: THE BEARDED VULTURE GYPAETUS BARBATUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONSTITUTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL BONE ASSEMBLAGES. LATE GLACIAL FAUNAL REMAINS AND PRESENT-DAY REFERENCE DATA IN CORSICA, WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN)

Dale Serjeantson, UK (Serjeantson D.: GOOSE HUSBANDRY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND)

Denis Sobolev, UKRAINE: 1 - (Sobolev D. & Marisova I.: MODERN STATE OF THE STUDYING OF FOSSIL BIRDS OF UKRAINE); 2 - (Sobolev D. & Marisova I.: ANTHROPOGENOUS ORNITHOFAUNA OF THE EASTERN PART OF VOLYN POLESSYE)

John R. Stewart, UK (Stewart J.: SEA BIRDS FROM NON-COASTAL PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS OR NOT ALL UNEXPECTED DEPOSITION IS OF HUMAN ORIGIN)

Teresa Tomek, POLAND (Tomek T. & Bocheński Z.M.: SCRAPS FROM A GREEK TABLE: THE CASE OF KLISOURA CAVE)

Ludwik Tomiałojć, POLAND (no contribution)

Tommy Tyrberg, SWEDEN (Tyrberg T.: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF DOMESTICATED BIRDS IN SWEDEN)

Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker, THE NETHERLANDS (Wijngaarden-Bakker L, van L.H.: WINTER IN A WETLAND. THE BIRD REMAINS FROM A LATE MESOLITHIC CAMP SITE AT HARDINXVELD-GIESSENDAM)

Joanna Wójcik, POLAND (Wójcik J.: HUMERAL COMPARATIVE OSTEOLOGY OF EUROPEAN THRUSHES (AVES: TURDUS) WITH COMPARISON TO OTHER GENERA OF PASSERINES BIRDS OF SIMILAR SIZE)

Jarosław Wróbel, POLAND (see Godula G.)

Derek W. Yalden, UK (Yalden D. W.: PLACE-NAME AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ON THE RECENT HISTORY OF BIRDS IN BRITAIN)

Alyona Yeremenko, UKRAINE (Yeremenko A.: FOSSIL BIRDS IN UKRAINE: TAXONOMICAL DIVERSITY OF DIFFERENT PERIODS OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT)

Mickle Zhilin, RUSSIA (Zhilin M.: THE EXPLOITATION OF BIRDS IN THE EARLY MESOLITHIC OF CENTRAL RUSSIA)