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Authors

Nuha Agha

Abstract

The assemblage consists of animal remains recovered from clear stratigraphic EB IB (N = 64) and EB II (N = 66) contexts. The identified remains were of livestock—sheep, goats, cattle and pigs—and a few wild animals, such as mountain gazelle and fallow deer. The age of the cattle remains in the EB II phase attests that most animals reached maturity; hence, their value was in secondary products, such as milk and/or labor, rather than their meat. In both periods, hunting of wild animals played only a marginal role in the economy of the site. These finds revealed that the transition from the early EB IB village to the EB II urban settlement was gradual.

Keywords

archaeozoology, osteology, economy, domestication, bones, horns, cutting marks, gnawing marks, skinning

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