Provisioning the Early Bronze Age City of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: Isotopic Analyses of Domestic Livestock Management Patterns

It is often assumed that domestic animals in early urban Near Eastern centres either are a reflection of the local pastoral economy, or were raised at a distance by pastoral specialists. In this paper, we test these assumptions through detailed isotopic analyses (carbon, oxygen and strontium) of cap...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Arnold, Haskel Greenfield, Gideon Hartman, Tina Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai, Parryss Carter-McGee, Aren Maeir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018-02-01
Series:Open Quaternary
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Online Access:http:///articles/35