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Science 24 March 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5461, pp. 2254 - 2257
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5461.2254
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The Initial Domestication of Goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago
Melinda A. Zeder,
1*
Brian Hesse
2
Initial goat domestication is documented in the highlands of
western Iran at 10,000 calibrated calendar years ago. Metrical analyses
of patterns of sexual dimorphism in modern wild goat skeletons
(Capra hircus aegagrus) allow sex-specific age curves to be
computed for archaeofaunal assemblages. A distinct shift to selective
harvesting of subadult males marks initial human management and the
transition from hunting to herding of the species. Direct accelerator
mass spectrometry radiocarbon dates on skeletal elements provide a
tight temporal context for the transition.
1 Archaeobiology Program, Department of
Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0112, USA.
2 Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-3350, USA.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
zeder.melinda{at}nmnh.si.edu
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