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Mediterranean monk seal --- Rare mammals --- Conservation --- Habitat

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Our relationships with marine mammals are complex. We have used them as resources, and in some places this remains the case; viewed them as competitors and culled them (again ongoing in some localities); been so captivated and intrigued by them that we have taken them into captivity for our entertainment; and developed a lucrative eco-tourism activity focused on them in many nations. When we first envisaged this special topic, we had two overarching aims: Firstly, we hoped to generate critical evaluation of some of our relationships with these animals. Secondly, we hoped to attract knowledgeable commentators and experts who might not traditionally publish in the peer-reviewed literature. We were also asking ourselves a question about what responsibility mankind might have to marine mammals, on our rapidly changing planet? The answer to the question; can, or should, humans have responsibility for the lives of marine mammals when they are affected by our activities? - is, in our opinion, ‘yes’ – and the logical progression from this question is to direct research and effort to understand and optimise the actions, reactions and responses that mankind may be able to take. We hope that the papers in this special issue bring some illumination to a small selection of topics under this much wider topic area, and prove to be informative and stimulating.

Bycatch --- Whale --- Marine Debris --- Dolphin --- Whaling --- Seal --- Cetacean society --- Human interaction --- Culture

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Our relationships with marine mammals are complex. We have used them as resources, and in some places this remains the case; viewed them as competitors and culled them (again ongoing in some localities); been so captivated and intrigued by them that we have taken them into captivity for our entertainment; and developed a lucrative eco-tourism activity focused on them in many nations. When we first envisaged this special topic, we had two overarching aims: Firstly, we hoped to generate critical evaluation of some of our relationships with these animals. Secondly, we hoped to attract knowledgeable commentators and experts who might not traditionally publish in the peer-reviewed literature. We were also asking ourselves a question about what responsibility mankind might have to marine mammals, on our rapidly changing planet? The answer to the question; can, or should, humans have responsibility for the lives of marine mammals when they are affected by our activities? - is, in our opinion, ‘yes’ – and the logical progression from this question is to direct research and effort to understand and optimise the actions, reactions and responses that mankind may be able to take. We hope that the papers in this special issue bring some illumination to a small selection of topics under this much wider topic area, and prove to be informative and stimulating.

Bycatch --- Whale --- Marine Debris --- Dolphin --- Whaling --- Seal --- Cetacean society --- Human interaction --- Culture

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This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of scriptand the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literatesocieties. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become muchbetter known. Our goal now is to reach below the élite and scribal levels to interface withnon-scribal operations conducted by people of the «middling» sort. Who made thesemarks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in BronzeAge Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East(Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in theAegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks

Script --- non-scribal communication --- media --- bronze age --- Clay --- Common Era --- Crete --- Cylinder seal --- Cypro-Minoan syllabary --- Minoan civilization