Abstract
This special issue of the journal Archaeofauna attempts to address some of the difficulties that face tropical zooarchaeology. Emery’s introduction to the issue defines the two main themes - methods and interpretation - and, within these themes, the subject topics of the papers presented at the original SAA forum on which this journal issue is based. In this Archaeofauna special issue, authors from around the world address these main themes and their associated subtopics from various viewpoints. Chase et al. (this volume) also discusses more broadly how these problems and solutions affect larger achaeological projects and nonzooarchaeologists. This concluding article summarizes the papers included in Tropical Zooarchaeology, and highlights the many solutions the authors herein have contributed toward our primary goal of making the most of the tropical faunal data.