Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age

Abstract The movements of ancient crop and animal domesticates across prehistoric Eurasia are well-documented in the archaeological record. What is less well understood are the precise mechanisms that farmers and herders employed to incorporate newly introduced domesticates into their long-standing...

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Autores principales:	Petra Vaiglova, Rachel E. B. Reid, Emma Lightfoot, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, Hui Wang, Guoke Chen, Shuicheng Li, Martin Jones, Xinyi Liu
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fca1e83f7d4c407784ee0cfcdfeda5cb2021-12-02T14:53:48ZLocalized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age10.1038/s41598-021-95233-x2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/fca1e83f7d4c407784ee0cfcdfeda5cb2021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95233-xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract The movements of ancient crop and animal domesticates across prehistoric Eurasia are well-documented in the archaeological record. What is less well understood are the precise mechanisms that farmers and herders employed to incorporate newly introduced domesticates into their long-standing husbandry and culinary traditions. This paper presents stable isotope values (δ 13C, δ 15N) of humans, animals, and a small number of plants from the Hexi Corridor, a key region that facilitated the movement of ancient crops between Central and East Asia. The data show that the role of animal products in human diets was more significant than previously thought. In addition, the diets of domestic herbivores (sheep/goat, and cattle) suggest that these two groups of domesticates were managed in distinct ways in the two main ecozones of the Hexi Corridor: the drier Northwestern region and the wetter Southeastern region. Whereas sheep and goat diets are consistent with consumption of naturally available vegetation, cattle exhibit a higher input of C4 plants in places where these plants contributed little to the natural vegetation. This suggests that cattle consumed diets that were more influenced by human provisioning, and may therefore have been reared closer to the human settlements, than sheep and goats.Petra VaiglovaRachel E. B. ReidEmma LightfootSuzanne E. Pilaar BirchHui WangGuoke ChenShuicheng LiMartin JonesXinyi LiuNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Petra Vaiglova Rachel E. B. Reid Emma Lightfoot Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch Hui Wang Guoke Chen Shuicheng Li Martin Jones Xinyi Liu Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age
description	Abstract The movements of ancient crop and animal domesticates across prehistoric Eurasia are well-documented in the archaeological record. What is less well understood are the precise mechanisms that farmers and herders employed to incorporate newly introduced domesticates into their long-standing husbandry and culinary traditions. This paper presents stable isotope values (δ 13C, δ 15N) of humans, animals, and a small number of plants from the Hexi Corridor, a key region that facilitated the movement of ancient crops between Central and East Asia. The data show that the role of animal products in human diets was more significant than previously thought. In addition, the diets of domestic herbivores (sheep/goat, and cattle) suggest that these two groups of domesticates were managed in distinct ways in the two main ecozones of the Hexi Corridor: the drier Northwestern region and the wetter Southeastern region. Whereas sheep and goat diets are consistent with consumption of naturally available vegetation, cattle exhibit a higher input of C4 plants in places where these plants contributed little to the natural vegetation. This suggests that cattle consumed diets that were more influenced by human provisioning, and may therefore have been reared closer to the human settlements, than sheep and goats.
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author	Petra Vaiglova Rachel E. B. Reid Emma Lightfoot Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch Hui Wang Guoke Chen Shuicheng Li Martin Jones Xinyi Liu
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title	Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age
title_short	Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age
title_full	Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age
title_fullStr	Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age
title_full_unstemmed	Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age
title_sort	localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in northwestern china during the bronze age
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Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age

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