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First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium bc

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  • Julie Dunne

    (Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK)

  • Richard P. Evershed

    (Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK)

  • Mélanie Salque

    (Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK)

  • Lucy Cramp

    (Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK)

  • Silvia Bruni

    (Metallorganica e Analitica “Lamberto Malatesta”, Università degli Studi di Milano - Via G. Venezian 21, 20133 Milano, Italy)

  • Kathleen Ryan

    (African Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6324, USA)

  • Stefano Biagetti

    (Sapienza, Università di Roma, Via Palestro, 63 - 00185 Roma, Italy)

  • Savino di Lernia

    (Sapienza, Università di Roma, Via Palestro, 63 - 00185 Roma, Italy
    School of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa)

Abstract

Lipid biomarker and stable carbon isotope analysis of absorbed food residues in prehistoric pottery from the Libyan Sahara has identified the first adoption of dairying practices in Neolithic Africa in the fifth millennium bc.

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  • Julie Dunne & Richard P. Evershed & Mélanie Salque & Lucy Cramp & Silvia Bruni & Kathleen Ryan & Stefano Biagetti & Savino di Lernia, 2012. "First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium bc," Nature, Nature, vol. 486(7403), pages 390-394, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:486:y:2012:i:7403:d:10.1038_nature11186
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11186
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    1. Sintayehu Yigrem & André Markemann & Girma Abebe & Joseph Ogutu & Hans-Peter Piepho & Anne Zárate, 2015. "Assessing the relative importance of dairy products to family nutrition in mixed crop-livestock production systems of Ethiopia," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 7(5), pages 1003-1015, October.
    2. C. Cook, 2014. "The role of lactase persistence in precolonial development," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 369-406, December.

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