Timing and pace of dairying inception and animal husbandry practices across Holocene North Africa
| Autor: | S. di Lernia, Richard P. Evershed, Farid Kherbouche, Julie Dunne, M. Chłodnicki |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Mediterranean climate
010506 paleontology Pastoralism neolithic holocene north africa organic residue analysis dairying archaeozoology North africa Hiatus 01 natural sciences Holocene North America 0601 history and archaeology Neolithic Domestication Holocene Archaeozoology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes Pace 060102 archaeology 06 humanities and the arts Animal husbandry Archaeology Dairying Geography Organic residue analysis |
| Zdroj: | Dunne, J, di Lernia, S, Chłodnicki, M, Kherbouche, F & Evershed, R 2018, ' Timing and pace of dairying inception and animal husbandry practices across Holocene North Africa ', Quaternary International, vol. 471 Part A, pp. 147-159 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.062 |
| Popis: | The timing and extent of the adoption and exploitation of domesticates and their secondary products, across Holocene North Africa, has long been the subject of extensive debate. The three distinct areas within the region, Mediterranean north Africa, the Nile Valley and the Sahara, each with extremely diverse environments and ecologies, demonstrate differing trajectories to pastoralism. Here, we address this question using a combination of faunal evidence and organic residue analyses of c. 300 archaeological vessels from sites in Algeria, Libya and Sudan. This synthesis of new and published data provides a broad regional and chronological perspective of the scale and intensity of domestic animal exploitation and the inception of dairying practices in Holocene North Africa. Following the introduction of domesticated animals into the region our results confirm a hiatus of around one thousand years before the adoption of a full pastoral economy, which appears first in the Libyan Sahara, at c. 5200 BC, subsequently appearing at c. 4600 BC in the Nile Valley and at 4400 - 3900 BC in Mediterranean north Africa |
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