In this fourth volume, ARCHAEOFAUNA resumes the editing of papers presented at the Fifth Meeting of the I.C.A.Z. Fish Remains Working Group (Stora Kornö, Sweden), a compromise which it undertook during the last meeting of this group in Leuven (Belgium). Such compromise is exemplified by the works of N. Benecke & L. Ván Thue, R. Larje, S. Hamilton-Dyer, R.C. Hoffmann, R.A. Nicholson and S. Sten. This list does not exhaust the number of papers presented at that conference. We therefore expect additional manuscripts to appear on forth coming volumes of our Journal as long as they meet those minimum standards which all scientific literature must exhibit.

The remaining papers of this number have followed ARCHAEOFAUNA's conventional editing methods, with two reviewers, and present a rather wide spectrum of archaeozoological information. Such phenomenon, together with the diversified character of the authors themselves, testifies to the growing reception of ARCHAEOFAUNA within an ample sector of archaeozoological research and indirectly speaks about its timely birth.