Comments on: Extending The Domestication Of Sheep & Goats In Mediterranean By 1,000 Years http://anthropology.net/2008/08/14/extending-the-domestication-of-sheep-goats-in-mediterranean-by-1000-years/ Beyond bones & stones Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Luis http://anthropology.net/2008/08/14/extending-the-domestication-of-sheep-goats-in-mediterranean-by-1000-years/#comment-12081 Luis Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:59:10 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2008/08/14/1154/#comment-12081 Hmm. Why does Zeder retrotract the arrival of domestic to places like Western Europe, where that arrival happened in fully developed form and is directly associated with also fully developed crops and specific cultures like Cardium Pottery? Sorry but I make no sense of that. I have no problem with earlier dates for West Asian Neolithic (in fact I have read even older ones in a 1988 manual) but I make absolitely no sense of claiming an earlier arrival of sheep to Spain when it is totally clear that there were no sheep at all before c. 4700 BCE. Maybe there were pigs and domestic rabbits somewhat earlier (this was disputed) but sheeps, goats or cows? Nope. Overall the spread of sheep (necesarily domestic) through Mediterranean Europe went along with Cardium Pottery culture and the C14 dates for the spread of this culture have not been altered AFAIK. So which is her argument to suggest domestic animals and in general Neolithic economy at earlier dates beyond West Asia? Hmm. Why does Zeder retrotract the arrival of domestic to places like Western Europe, where that arrival happened in fully developed form and is directly associated with also fully developed crops and specific cultures like Cardium Pottery? Sorry but I make no sense of that.

I have no problem with earlier dates for West Asian Neolithic (in fact I have read even older ones in a 1988 manual) but I make absolitely no sense of claiming an earlier arrival of sheep to Spain when it is totally clear that there were no sheep at all before c. 4700 BCE. Maybe there were pigs and domestic rabbits somewhat earlier (this was disputed) but sheeps, goats or cows? Nope.

Overall the spread of sheep (necesarily domestic) through Mediterranean Europe went along with Cardium Pottery culture and the C14 dates for the spread of this culture have not been altered AFAIK.

So which is her argument to suggest domestic animals and in general Neolithic economy at earlier dates beyond West Asia?

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