The early management of cattle (Bos taurus) in Neolithic central Anatolia

• Autores: Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Cheryl Makarewicz
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 83, Nº 321, 2009, págs. 669-686
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The authors use metrical, demographic and body part analyses of animal bone assemblages in Anatolia to demonstrate how cattle were incorporated into early Neolithic subsistence economies. Sheep and goats were domesticated in the eighth millennium BC, while aurochs, wild cattle, were long hunted. The earliest domesticated cattle are not noted until the mid-seventh millennium BC, and derive from imported stock domesticated elsewhere. In Anatolia, meanwhile, the aurochs remains large and wild and retains its charisma as a hunted quarry and a stud animal.