| Title |
The Prey Pathway: A Regional History of Cattle (Bos taurus) and Pig (Sus scrofa) Domestication in the Northern Jordan Valley, Israel
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0055958 |
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| Authors |
Nimrod Marom, Guy Bar-Oz |
| Abstract |
The faunal assemblage from the 9(th)-8(th) millennium BP site at Sha'ar Hagolan, Israel, is used to study human interaction with wild suids and cattle in a time period just before the appearance of domesticated animals of these species in the Jordan Valley. Our results, based on demographic and osteometric data, indicate that full domestication of both cattle and suids occurred at the site during the 8(th) millennium. Importantly, domestication was preceded in both taxa by demographic and metric population parameters indicating severe overhunting. The possible role of overhunting in shaping the characteristics of domesticated animals and the social infrastructure to ownership of herds is then explored. |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Germany | 1 | 10% |
| India | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 7 | 70% |
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| Members of the public | 9 | 90% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
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| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 97% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 17% |
| Researcher | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Unknown | 11 | 15% |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 14% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 7% |
| Psychology | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 17 | 24% |