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Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a comparative approach addressing settings, species and the hunters' societies.

Dani Nadel is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Archaeology, the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel. He has studied hunter-gatherers' and Neolithic sites in the Southern Levant. He has surveyed and excavated desert kites in Israel and Armenia, and was partner in the study of recent timber-built game traps in the Great Basin of North America.

Guy Bar-Oz is a Professor in the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa. He is an expert on the cultural and biological heritage of ancient Southwest Asia. His main interests are in developing and applying novel methods to reconstruct the cultural and environmental landscape of past societies. In the last few years, his research has concentrated on human impact on ancient environments and the collapse and resilience of past societies in marginal environments.

Dan Malkinson is a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Israel. He is a landscape ecologist and has studied human-wildlife interactions in urban, agricultural, and natural environments. Harnessing his studies of past and contemporary landscapes, he hopes to implement the gained knowledge to conserve the ecosystems and biodiversity of the future.

Leland Bement is a Senior Researcher Emeritus at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. He has studied North American Plains hunter-gatherer societies and the development of communal hunting technology in pedestrian societies. He has discovered and excavated complex, stratified, communal bison kill sites in the Southern Plains of Oklahoma and Texas.