The size of domestic cattle, sheep, goats and pigs in the Czech Neolithic and Eneolithic Periods: Temporal variations and their causes
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The size of domestic cattle, sheep, goats and pigs in the Czech Neolithic and Eneolithic Periods: Temporal variations and their causes
Original language description
Osteometric data were analysed from the main domestic animals existing in central Europe during the Neolithic and Eneolithic (Chalcolithic) periods, specifically cattle (Bos taurus), sheep (Ovis aries), goats (Capra hircus), and pigs (Sus domesticus). The results are based on a combined evaluation of selected dental and postcranial measurements (in total nearly 1100 measured values) obtained from archaeological material from the Bohemian and Moravian (Czech Republic) Lengyel and Eneolithic periods (4700-2200 BC, including Moravian Painted Ware, Funnelbeaker, Baden-Řivnáč, and Bell-Beaker Cultures for example) and adjacent Neolithic and Early Bronze Age cultures (Linear and Stroked Pottery, Únětice). Results on the animals' body size and their variation over time are presented, and possible interpretations of the secular changes in size are discussed in detail. Apart from the general, well known trend showing a reduction in cattle size over time, some anomalies were found. Based on osteometric comparisons, there are indications of cross-breeding between wild and domestic forms and/or the local domestication of cattle in the Bohemian Řivnáč Culture (3200-2800 BC), and of pigs in the Proto-Eneolithic to Funnelbeaker Cultures (4300-3350 BC). The observed body-size increase in sheep in the territory of the Czech Republic during the Early-Middle Eneolithic corresponds to the previously hypothesised importation of a new breed throughout Europe during the second half of the 4th millennium BC.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
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Result continuities
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Archaeofauna
ISSN
1132-6891
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Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Junio
Country of publishing house
ES - SPAIN
Number of pages
46
Pages from-to
33-78
UT code for WoS article
000383308200003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84977511711