Egypt
- Evidence Of Prehistoric Dairy Production Found In The Sahara
Discovery News (Emily Sohn) More than 7,000 years ago, prehistoric people in the African Sahara were making dairy products, such as butter, yogurt and cheese. The discovery, based on the identification of dairy fats on ancient pottery shards found in...
- Early Use And Spread Of Domesticated Animals
It's a very slow news day today, so here are a couple of off-topic items to keep you going: Just when did the cows come home? The Jerusalem Post Until now, researchers thought that the processing, storage and use of domesticated cow, sheep and goats'...
- A Potted History Of Milk
Bristol University Today has been another day for pushing the boundaries of the blog into borderline off-topic areas. But if you are interested in the Egyptian prehistoric period you cannot avoid farming and its development, and this post may therefore...
- More Re Neolithic Settlement Found In The Faiyum
Science Daily Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals,...
- Dispersal Of Pigs From The Near East
BBC News This is of no direct relevance to Egypt, but for those interested in the dispersal of agricultural components from the Near East to Europe and Egypt, this may be of some interest.The first domesticated pigs in Europe were introduced from the...
Egypt
Goats Key to Spread of Farming, Gene Study Suggests
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061010-goats-history.html
Two-page article about the role of goat in the spread of farming throughout the Old World: "Goats accompanied the earliest farmers into Europe some 7,500 years ago, helping to revolutionize Stone Age society, a new study suggests. The trailblazing farm animals were hardy and highly mobile traveling companions to ancient pioneers from the Middle East who introduced agriculture to Europe and elsewhere, researchers say. The onset of farming ushered in the so-called Neolithic Revolution, when settled communities gradually replaced nomadic tribes and their hunter-gatherer lifestyles between 8000 and 6000 B.C. A team of archaeologists and biologists has traced the origins of domesticated goats in Western Europe to the Middle East at the beginnings of the Neolithic period. The study is based on DNA analysis of goat bones from a Stone Age cave in France and suggests the animals spread across Europe quickly after their introduction. The team says its findings, reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicate that goats may have played a key role in the rise and spread of farming worldwide."
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- Evidence Of Prehistoric Dairy Production Found In The Sahara
Discovery News (Emily Sohn) More than 7,000 years ago, prehistoric people in the African Sahara were making dairy products, such as butter, yogurt and cheese. The discovery, based on the identification of dairy fats on ancient pottery shards found in...
- Early Use And Spread Of Domesticated Animals
It's a very slow news day today, so here are a couple of off-topic items to keep you going: Just when did the cows come home? The Jerusalem Post Until now, researchers thought that the processing, storage and use of domesticated cow, sheep and goats'...
- A Potted History Of Milk
Bristol University Today has been another day for pushing the boundaries of the blog into borderline off-topic areas. But if you are interested in the Egyptian prehistoric period you cannot avoid farming and its development, and this post may therefore...
- More Re Neolithic Settlement Found In The Faiyum
Science Daily Archaeologists from UCLA and the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands have found the earliest evidence ever discovered of an ancient Egyptian agricultural settlement, including farmed grains, remains of domesticated animals,...
- Dispersal Of Pigs From The Near East
BBC News This is of no direct relevance to Egypt, but for those interested in the dispersal of agricultural components from the Near East to Europe and Egypt, this may be of some interest.The first domesticated pigs in Europe were introduced from the...