Table 3. Relative proportions (%) of different animal groups at selected Fayum Neolithic sites.

Site	QS XI/81	QS IX/81	QS VII A/81	FS1-A	Site 1	Site 3	Site 4	Site 5 = FS1	Kom K	Kom W
Reference	[22]	[22]	[22]	[23]	[24]	[24]	[24]	[24]	This study	This study
Surface (S) or excavated (E) material	E	E	E	S	S	S	S	S	E	E
Game animals
Crocodile	0	0.7	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Monitor lizard	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	<0,1	0.0
Birds	0	0.7	0.2	0	1.9	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.3
Mammals (excl. carnivores)	48	0.9	0.2	12	4.7	2.7	3.3	4.7	0.2	<0,1
Domestic animals (excl. carnivores)	15	51.1	0.5	26	31.7	1.3	1.6	2.3	23,1/9,8*	6.9
Freshwater animals
Fish	36	45.9	98.9	62	22.2	67.1	90.3	84.6	76.3	92.7
Softshell turtle	0	0.7	0.2	?	39.5	28.6	4.9	8.1	0.2	0.1
n	55	146	552	92	846	461	655	4130	16064	6015

? Only weights available and relative proportion therefore not calculated; *with/without small bovid teeth.

Remark: The table is based on numbers of identified remains in each category. Where the specimens could not be precisely identified, they were attributed to specific species using the same proportions in which these species occur in the precisely identified specimens. Taking for example, ‘small bovids’, which could be domestic or hunted, when a site yielded 2 bones identified as gazelle, 198 as sheep/goat, and 100 as small bovid, then 1 bone of the category ‘small bovid’ was counted with gazelle (hunted) and 99 bones with ovicaprines (domestic).