On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jacqui Mulville wrote:
> So
> 'Could you give me some ideas as to how to search for
> images and info on the earliest evidence of dairying? I
> have looked on the web but havn't found any particularly
> useful sites.'
Can't say I've seen many. This is the best one I know of:
BBC News Online: Sci/Tech Evidence of the Iron Age pinta
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_218000/218473.stm
There is a little bit of information on milk production and an excellent
account of very many breeds of cattle at
Breeds of Livestock at Oklahoma State
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/BREEDS/cattle/
> Balasse, M, Bocherens, H. Tresset, A, Mariotti, A
> and Vigne, J. 1997 Emergence of dairy production in the
> Neolithic? Contribution of isotopic analysis of cattle
> archaeological bones. Earth and Planetary Sciences, 325,
> 1005-1010
This is actually in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Science, Paris,
Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 325, 1005-1010. For a critical
commentary on it see
Millard, AR (in press) An evaluation of the possible use of nitrogen
isotopes to detect milking in cattle, pp.134-140 in Bailey G & Charles R
(eds) Human Ecodynamics: Proceedings of the AEA Conferecnce of September
1998. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Andrew
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