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The Initial Domestication of Goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago
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The Initial Domestication of Goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago

Melinda A. Zeder and Brian Hesse
Science
24 Mar 2000
Vol 287, Issue 5461
pp. 2254-2257
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5461.2254
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Abstract

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.

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Received: 3 November 1999
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Melinda A. Zeder*
Archaeobiology Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560–0112, USA.
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Brian Hesse
Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294–3350, USA.
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