Palaeoproteomics gives new insight into early southern African ...
网页2020年9月2日 · The presence of caprine species breeds (fat-tailed sheep, for example 35, 36) that are only represented in eastern and southern Africa is a supplementary argument in favour of strong networks...
“Of Sheep and Men”: Earliest Direct Evidence of Caprine …
网页2012年7月11日 · Today there are no wild caprine species in southern Africa, although it appears that they existed in the southern Cape area during the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Reexamination of assemblages from Nooitgedacht 1 and 3 and Bloomplaas Cave in the Cango Valley by J.S. Brink has highlighted the presence of …
“Of Sheep and Men”: Earliest Direct Evidence of Caprine ... - PLOS
网页2012年7月11日 · Today there are no wild caprine species in southern Africa, although it appears that they existed in the southern Cape area during the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Reexamination of assemblages from Nooitgedacht 1 and 3 and Bloomplaas Cave in the Cango Valley by J.S. Brink has highlighted the presence of …
Subfamily Caprinae - Sheep, goats, and relatives - Ultimate Ungulate
网页The Caprinae is one of the most successful bovid subfamilies, with 35 currently recognized species found in mountainous regions across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Their success is due to a generalized form with specializations for montane habitats, a combination which confers flexibility within the alpine biome.
A new african fossil caprin and a combined molecular and …
网页2012年7月23日 · Our phylogenetic analysis suggests that the two fossil species we considered, Capra wodaramoya and Budorcas churcheri, were each the product of an independent dispersal event into Africa, separate from those of the Ethiopian ibex or aoudad lineages.
The name of the game: palaeoproteomics and radiocarbon dates …
网页2023年11月22日 · We report the first large-scale palaeoproteomics research on eastern and southern African zooarchaeological samples, thereby refining our understanding of early caprine (sheep and goat) pastoralism in Africa.
Bovids VI: Sheep, Goats, and Relatives (Caprinae)
网页The Caprini has five genera and 20 species: Barbary sheep (Ammotragus), one species; tahrs (Hemitragus), three species; blue sheep (Pseudois), two species; true goats (Capra), seven species; and wild sheep (Ovis), five species.
(PDF) “Of Sheep and Men”: Earliest Direct Evidence of Caprine ...
网页2012年7月11日 · Here we document the Later Stone Age (LSA) site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia), which contains confirmed caprine remains, from which we infer that domesticates were present in the southern...
(PDF) MEASURING CHANGE: CATTLE AND CAPRINES FROM …
网页In Africa, domestic caprines (sheep and goat) were introduced in the northeastern part of the continent from the Near East more than 9000 years ago.
Barbary sheep - Wikipedia
网页The Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia), also known as aoudad (pronounced [ˈɑʊdæd]), is a species of caprine native to rocky mountains in North Africa. While this is the only species in genus Ammotragus, six subspecies have been described.