The pixelated shepherd

Meiggs, David; Arbuckle, Benjamin S.; Öztan, Aliye

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“…S1 A). The study area exhibited a wide range (0.01333) in bioavailable 87 Sr/ 86 Sr, 5 times higher than at Köşk Höyük (Central Turkey, 0.0025 30 ) and 26 times higher than at Oldupai Gorge (Tanzania, 0.00052 31 ), two areas of similar size (roughly 2000 km 2 ). There was no significant relationship between the plant 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and geographic variables (i.e.…”

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Monthly mobility inferred from isoscapes and laser ablation strontium isotope ratios in caprine tooth enamel

Lazzerini

Balter

Coulon

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Strontium isotopic analysis of sequentially formed tissues, such as tooth enamel, is commonly used to study provenance and mobility of humans and animals. However, the potential of 87Sr/86Sr in tooth enamel to track high-frequency movements has not yet been established, in part due to the lack of data on modern animals of known movement and predictive model of isotope variation across the landscape. To tackle this issue, we measured the 87Sr/86Sr in plant samples taken from a 2000 km2 area in the Altai Mountains (Mongolia), and the 87Sr/86Sr in tooth enamel of domestic caprines whose mobility was monitored using GPS tracking. We show that high-resolution, sequential profiles of strontium isotope composition of tooth enamel reliably reflect the high-frequency mobility of domestic livestock and that short-term residency of about 45 days can be resolved. This offers new perspectives in various disciplines, including forensics, ecology, palaeoanthropology, and bioarchaeology.

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confidence: 86%

Monthly mobility inferred from isoscapes and laser ablation strontium isotope ratios in caprine tooth enamel

Lazzerini

Balter

Coulon

et al. 2021

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“…The study of the faunal remains of Güvercinkayası and Köşkhöyük reveals that the animal economy, once dominated by domestic sheep and goats, changed dramatically in the Middle Chalcolithic (Gülçur 2012; Meiggs et al 2018). In addition, the results of the analyses of strontium isotopes from Köşkhöyük indicate that in contrast to Early Chalcolithic grazing patterns, pastures farther away from the settlement were used during the Middle Chalcolithic (Meiggs et al 2018).…”

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“…The rather scant archaeological deposits were identified on a small ridge measuring 50 × 30m (Figure 2). Dairy produce was an important part of the Middle Chalcolithic subsistence economy; the identification of seasonal settlements may reveal more about the lifestyles of groups engaged in animal husbandry (Meiggs et al 2018).…”

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Middle Chalcolithic expansion into the highlands of the north-central Taurus, south-western Cappadocia

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The Rise of Pastoralism in the Ancient Near East

Arbuckle

Hammer

2018

J Archaeol Res

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In this paper, we present a history of pastoralism in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. We describe the accretional development of pastoral technologies over eight millennia, including the productive breeding of domestic sheep, goats, and cattle in the early Neolithic and the subsequent domestication of animals used primarily for labor-donkeys, horses, and finally camels-as well as the first appearance of husbandry strategies such as penning, foddering, pasturing, young male culling, and dairy production. Despite frequent references in the literature to prehistoric pastoral nomads, pastoralism in Southwest Asia was strongly associated with sedentary communities that practiced intensive plant cultivation and was largely local in nature. There is very little evidence in prehistoric and early historic Southwest Asia to support the notion of a "dimorphic society" characterized by separate and specialized agriculturists and mobile pastoralists. Although mobile herders were present in the steppe regions of Syria by the early second millennium BC, mobile pastoralism was the exception rather than the rule at that time; its "identification" in the archaeological record frequently derives from the application of anachronistic ethnographic analogy. We conclude that pastoralism was a diverse, flexible, and dynamic adaptation in the ancient Near East and call for a reinvigorated and empirically based archaeology of pastoralism in Southwest Asia.

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The pixelated shepherd

Cited by 6 publications

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Monthly mobility inferred from isoscapes and laser ablation strontium isotope ratios in caprine tooth enamel

Monthly mobility inferred from isoscapes and laser ablation strontium isotope ratios in caprine tooth enamel

Middle Chalcolithic expansion into the highlands of the north-central Taurus, south-western Cappadocia

The Rise of Pastoralism in the Ancient Near East

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