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- Title
Aurochs bone deposits at Kfar HaHoresh and the southern Levant across the agricultural transition.
- Authors
Meier, Jacqueline S.; Goring-Morris, A. Nigel; Munro, Natalie D.
- Abstract
Aurochs played a prominent role in mortuary and feasting practices during the Neolithic transition in south-west Asia, although evidence of these practices is diverse and regionally varied. This article considers a new concentration of aurochs bones from the southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Kfar HaHoresh, situating it in a regional context through a survey of aurochs remains from other sites. Analysis shows a change in the regional pattern once animal domestication began from an emphasis on feasting to small-scale practices. These results reveal a widely shared practice of symbolic cattle use that persisted over a long period, but shifted with the beginning of animal management across the region.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; URUS; NEOLITHIC Period; DOMESTICATION of animals; SYMBOLISM of animals; MIDDLE East antiquities; HISTORY
- Publication
Antiquity, 2017, Vol 91, Issue 360, p1469
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15184/aqy.2017.179