Patterns of pastoralism in later Bronze Age Kazakhstan: new evidence from faunal and lipid residue analyses

► Faunal analyses of six later Bronze Age sites in Central and Northern Kazakhstan. ► Absorbed lipid residue analyses of ceramics from four sites. ► High inter-site variation in species abundance, particularly in relation to horses. ► Cattle more common in forest steppe, caprines more common in semi-arid steppe. ► Significance of horses to prehistoric mixed pastoralism.