The Origins and Development of African Livestock: Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography

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Roger Blench, Kevin MacDonald
Routledge, 27. jan. 2006 - 568 strani
This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost experts and provides fully illustrated, never before published data, and extensive bibliographies.
 

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Preface
1963
List of Tables
1971
indigenous or imported?
1977
Archaeology
a first approximation
African livestock remains from Saharan mortuary contexts
Genetics and the origins of African cattle
Molecular genetic analysis of African zeboid populations
The characterization of indigenous goat types of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Using morphobiometric indices to map goat resources in Africa
an ontroduction
African minor livestock species
Blench
Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock in Sudan
Ethnographic perspectives on cattle management in semiarid
Index

Characterization of the Kuri cattle of Lake Chad using molecular genetic
Characterizations of African cattle sheep and goats and their

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