Livestock dung is a valuable material for reconstructing human and animal inter-relations
and activity within open areas and built environments. This paper examines the identification …

A key question in archaeobotany concerns the role of herbivore dung in contributing plant
remains to archaeobotanical assemblages. This issue has been discussed for at least 40 …

The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

The Aceramic Neolithic (∼ 9600 to 7000 cal BC) period in the Zagros Mountains, western
Iran, provides some of the earliest archaeological evidence of goat (Capra hircus) …

Sheep and goats (caprines) were domesticated in Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but
how and in how many places remain open questions. This study investigates the initial …

The indigenous populations of La Palma (Canary Islands), who arrived on the island from
Northwest Africa ca. 2000 years BP, were predominantly pastoralists. Yet, many aspects of …

Sheep was one of the first domesticated animals in Neolithic West Eurasia. The
zooarchaeological record suggests that domestication first took place in Southwest Asia …

Ancient faecal material is becoming a highly valuable more frequently investigated proxy
with which to address a wide range of research questions. With advancing scientific …

Over the last few decades a variety of geoarchaeological methods and ethnoarchaeological
and experimental approaches have demonstrated the fundamental importance of animal …

Occupied between~ 10,300 and 9300 years ago, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Aşıklı
Höyük in Central Anatolia went through early phases of sheep domestication. Analysis of …