SHEIKHI , Shiva

Herd mobility is a key parameter of many agro-pastoral strategies. Sequential variationsof oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope ratios in ruminant teeth are commonly used forcharacterizing herd mobility along altitudinal gradients and across geological areas. Towhat extent is the variation and covariation of isotopic ratios along a tooth...

First results of the botanical and faunal remains analysis from Iron Age contexts at Ulug-depe in Turkmenistan reveal subsistence economies that primarily focused on cultivating and herding, with the presence of common plant and animal species for this period such as wheat, barley, sheep, goat and cattle. However, a large diversity of wild...

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature...