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Genetics and African Cattle Domestication
Authors:Frauke Stock  Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Affiliation:1. Cepheid GmbH, Taunusanlage 1, 60329, Frankfurt Main, Germany
2. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
Abstract:Whether cattle domestication occurred independently on the African continent is among the most controversial questions in the Holocene archaeology of northern Africa. One long-established scenario, based upon early archaeological evidence, suggested that Africa’s earliest cattle derived from several introductions from Southwest Asia through the Nile Valley, or via the Horn of Africa. Based upon archaeofaunal remains retrieved in the late twentieth century, other archaeologists argued that an independent domestication of the African aurochs gave rise to Africa’s earliest domestic cattle. Up to now, the genetic data have also been controversial. This paper reviews the archaeological evidence and the scope of debate, and then focuses on the recent contributions of genetic research to clarifying these issues.
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