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By Sue Colledge,James Conolly,Keith Dobney,Katie Manning,Stephen Shennan

This quantity tackles the basic and broad-scale questions about the unfold of early animal herding from its origins within the close to East into Europe starting within the mid-10th millennium BC. unique paintings through greater than 30 best foreign researchers synthesizes of our present wisdom in regards to the origins and unfold of animal domestication. during this entire publication, the zooarchaeological list and discussions of the evolution and improvement of Neolithic stock-keeping take middle level within the debate over the profound results of the Neolithic revolution on either our organic and cultural evolution.

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