Published May 5, 2025 | Version v1
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CATTLE DOMESTICATION REVISITED: MIDDLE NILE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS INDEPENDENT ORIGINS IN AFRICA 10,000 YEARS AGO

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Wrocław
  • 2. ROR icon Polish Academy of Sciences

Contributors

  • 1. Archaeological Museum
  • 2. Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • 3. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • 4. ROR icon University of Bergen
  • 5. independent researcher, Stara Dąbrowa, Poland
  • 6. National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Khartoum, Sudan

Description

Author Accepted Manuscript of the paper published in Journal of Archaeological Science 177 (2025): 106202

Abstract (En)

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 6,000 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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Funding

National Science Centre
Unearthing Pan-African Crossroads... 2020/37/B/HS3/00519