1 Introduction: Why This Volume?Part 1 The Pleistocene- Holocene Transition2 The Southern Levant During the Last Glacial and Zooarchaeological Evidence for the Effects of Climate-Forcing on Hominin Population Dynamics3 Quaternary Mammals, People, and Climate Change: A View from Southern North America4 Holocene Large Mammal Extinctions in Palawan Island, Philippines5 Human Response to Climate Change in the Northern Adriatic During the Late Pleistocene and Early HolocenePart 2 The Early- Mid-Holocene6 Early to Middle Holocene Climatic Change and the Use of Animal Resources by Highland Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Central Andes7 Climate Change at the Holocene Thermal Maximum and Its Impact on Wild Game Populations in South ScandinaviaPart 3 The Recent Holocene8 Oxygen Isotope Seasonality Determinations of Marsh Clam Shells from Prehistoric Shell Middens in Nicaragua9 Climatic Changes and Hunter-Gatherer Populations: Archaeozoological Trends in Southern Patagonia10 Evidence of Changing Climate and Subsistence Strategies Among the Nuu-chah-nulth of Canada’s West Coast11 Biometry and Climate Change in Norse Greenland: The Effect of Climate on the Size and Shape of Domestic MammalsPart 4 overview and Retrospective12 Zooarchaeology in the 21st Century: Comments on the Contributions