ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Aurochs
12 Oct 2016
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Cattle domestication: first steps in the prey pathway. Earliest archaeological evidence of full cattle domestication in middle east. From hunter-gatherer game management to herd management. Archeological evidence of this step from site in southern turkey - cayonu tepesi. Humans hunted the aurochs, local population decides, shown by decrease in aurochs bones prior to domestication. Population decline triggered herd management and selective breeding, stable, sustainable source of animals meat and related products. After domestication, bones of domesticated cattle increase, complete reliance on domesticated cattle (and goat, sheep and pig) in place of wild species. First cleaning of land not for agricult but for pastures, cattle loved barley and wheat which later became poeple food. Potatoes and corn brought back to europe from nw were cattle food first. Beets, turnips, clover were introduced in europe for cattle feed. Humans later began to eat these things. Modern turkey : site dated to 8500 bp.
