Exotic foods reveal contact between South Asia and the Near East during the second millennium BCE

A Scott, RC Power… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Although the key role of long-distance trade in the transformation of cuisines worldwide has
been well-documented since at least the Roman era, the prehistory of the Eurasian food …

[HTML][HTML] Paternal origins and migratory episodes of domestic sheep

J Deng, XL **e, DF Wang, C Zhao, FH Lv, X Li, J Yang… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The domestication and subsequent global dispersal of livestock are crucial events in human
history, but the migratory episodes during the history of livestock remain poorly documented …

On the road again—a review of pretreatment methods for the decontamination of skeletal materials for strontium isotopic and concentration analysis

CA Wathen, S Isaksson, K Lidén - Archaeological and Anthropological …, 2022 - Springer
Strontium isotopic and concentration results from archeological skeletons have proved
useful in demonstrating human and animal mobility patterns, and dietary life-history. This …

[書籍][B] The donkey in human history: an archaeological perspective

P Mitchell - 2018 - books.google.com
Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up
to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first …

Who were the Hyksos? Challenging traditional narratives using strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis of human remains from ancient Egypt

C Stantis, A Kharobi, N Maaranen, GM Nowell… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A foreign dynasty, known as the Hyksos, ruled parts of Egypt between c. 1638–1530 BCE.
Their origins are thought to be rooted in the Near East, which is supported by architectural …

Camelid husbandry in the Atacama Desert? A stable isotope study of camelid bone collagen and textiles from the Lluta and Camarones Valleys, northern Chile

P Szpak, D Valenzuela - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Management of camelids in the coastal valleys of the Andes has generated much debate in
recent years. Zooarchaeological and isotopic studies have demonstrated that in the coastal …

Pastoralism, climate change, and the transformation of the Indus Civilization in Gujarat: Faunal analyses and biogenic isotopes

B Chase, D Meiggs, P Ajithprasad - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indus Civilization (2600–1900 BCE), South Asia's first urban society,
underwent a momentous social transformation towards the end of the third millennium BC …

[HTML][HTML] Earliest evidence for equid bit wear in the ancient Near East: The" ass" from Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

HJ Greenfield, I Shai, TL Greenfield, ER Arnold… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Analysis of a sacrificed and interred domestic donkey from an Early Bronze Age (EB) IIIB (c.
2800–2600 BCE) domestic residential neighborhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel, indicate …

What is left behind: Advancing interpretation of pastoral land-use in Harappan Gujarat using herbivore dung to examine biosphere strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) …

B Chase, D Meiggs, P Ajithprasad, PA Slater - Journal of Archaeological …, 2018 - Elsevier
The analysis of strontium isotopes in archaeologically preserved biological tissues is most
productive when these can be compared to naturally occurring variation in strontium isotope …

Isotopic and proteomic evidence for communal stability at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant

X Wang, B Zhang, Y Sun, T Ingman, S Eisenmann… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
As one of the key, long-term occupied sites in the Southern Levant, Jericho was one of the
most important early Neolithic centres to witness social and economic changes associated …