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Science 24 March 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5461, pp. 2174 - 2175
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5461.2174
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Perspectives

ANTHROPOLOGY:
Age, Sex, and Old Goats

Curtis W. Marean

The time period during which our ancestors first moved from a hunter to a pastoral lifestyle has long been debated. In a Perspective, Curtis Marean discusses new findings (Zeder and Hesse) suggesting that the first step in domestication of wild goats occurred about 10,000 years ago in the Zagros mountains of Iran and Iraq.

The author is in the Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA. E-mail: curtis.marean{at}sunysb.edu

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