"Of sheep and men": Earliest direct evidence of caprine domestication in southern Africa at Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Pleurdeau, David ^a   Imalwa, Emma ^b   Détroit, Florent ^a   Lesur, Joséphine ^a   Veldman, Anzel ^b   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^a   Marais, Eugène ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b National Museum of Namibia   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERD; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MIGRATION; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; STONE AGE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CAVES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NAMIBIA; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; TOOTH;

CAPRA; OVIS ARIES; PANTHERA PARDUS;

EID: 84863839456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040340     Document Type: Article

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