Cattle domestication revisited: Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins in Africa 10,000 years ago

IF 2.6 1区地球科学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2025.106202

Marta Osypińska , Piotr Osypiński , Paweł Wiktorowicz , Marek Chłodnicki , Roman Łopaciuk , Przemysław Bobrowski , Marzena Cendrowska , Justyna Kokolus , Huyam Khalid Madani

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Abstract

New zooarchaeological discoveries in the Middle Nile support the scenario that proto-pastoralist communities arrived from the sub-Saharan region with large ruminants at the beginning of the Holocene. Until now, it has been accepted that domesticated cattle arrived in Africa in 6000 BCE from the Middle East. New osteometric data from Letti Desert 2 (LTD2) in Sudan analysed through point-scale method as well as age-profile suggest that cattle could had been domesticated independently in Africa at the same time as in the Middle East, that is around 10,000 years ago.

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尼罗河中游地区新的动物考古发现支持了这样一种假设，即在全新世初期，原游牧族群带着大型反刍动物从撒哈拉以南地区来到非洲。迄今为止，人们一直认为驯化牛于公元前 6000 年从中东抵达非洲。苏丹莱蒂沙漠 2 号（LETTI Desert 2，LTD2）通过点尺度方法和年龄轮廓分析得出的新骨测定数据表明，非洲的牛可能与中东的牛同时被独立驯化，即大约在 1 万年前。

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Journal of Archaeological Science 地学-地球科学综合

CiteScore

6.10

自引率

7.10%

发文量

112

审稿时长

49 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Archaeological Science is aimed at archaeologists and scientists with particular interests in advancing the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology. This established monthly journal publishes focus articles, original research papers and major review articles, of wide archaeological significance. The journal provides an international forum for archaeologists and scientists from widely different scientific backgrounds who share a common interest in developing and applying scientific methods to inform major debates through improving the quality and reliability of scientific information derived from archaeological research.