The initial domestication of goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros mountains 10,000 years ago

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5461, 2000, Pages 2254-2257

  Zeder, Melinda A ^a   Hesse, Brian ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ARCHAEOLOGY; DOMESTICATION; GOAT; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ARTICLE; GOAT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

AGING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ARCHAEOLOGY; BODY CONSTITUTION; BONE AND BONES; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GOATS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; IRAN; IRAQ; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

IRAN;

CAPRA AEGAGRUS; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 0034708628     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5461.2254     Document Type: Article

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20. Funded by a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship awarded to B.H. in 1976, and by grants from the Smithsonian's Research Initiative and Scholarly Studies Programs awarded to M.A.Z. Acknowledgment is given to the staff of the Field Museum of Natural History; to A. Aisen, S. Arter, N. Cleghorn, M. Hiers, H. Lapham, S. McClure, C. McLinn, A. Shapiro, and S. Stackhouse; and to M. J. Blackman, B. D. Smith, P. Wapnish, and three anonymous reviewers.