Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1036486 | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The Neolithic Revolution, constituting a shift from food acquisition to food production, came to Africa as it did to most of the rest of the world: through processes of transmission rather than through de novo innovation. In contrast with other regions the pastoral management of cattle, sheep and goats was widespread in Africa thousands of years before settled agricultural communities or the use of domesticated plants were in evidence ( Neumann, 2005, Marshall and Hildebrand, 2002 and Gifford-Gonzalez, 2005). We report here the discovery of haplogroup B in the first genetic analysis of an African archaeological sheep assemblage.
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Authors
K. Ann Horsburgh, Allison Rhines,