The Prey Pathway: A Regional History of Cattle (Bos taurus) and Pig (Sus scrofa) Domestication in the Northern Jordan Valley, Israel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Marom, Nimrod ^a   Bar Oz, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BOS TAURUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMESTIC PIG; DOMESTICATION; EARLY POTTERY NEOLITHIC; FAUNA; FAUNAL ASSEMBLAGE; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN ANIMAL INTERACTION; JORDAN; MALE; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OSTEOMETRY; OVERHUNTING; PRE POTTERY NEOLITHIC C; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CATTLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84873546327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055958     Document Type: Article

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