The Prey Pathway: A Regional History of Cattle (Bos taurus) and Pig (Sus scrofa) Domestication in the Northern Jordan Valley, Israel
Open accessAbstract
The faunal assemblage from the 9(th)-8(th) millennium BP site at Sha'ar Hagolan, Israel, is used to study human interaction with wild suids and cattle in a time period just before the appearance of domesticated animals of these species in the Jordan Valley. Our results, based on demographic and osteometric data, indicate that full domestication of both cattle and suids occurred at the site during the 8(th) millennium. Importantly, domestication was preceded in both taxa by demographic and metric population parameters indicating severe overhunting. The possible role of overhunting in shaping the characteristics of domesticated animals and the social infrastructure to ownership of herds is then explored.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Archaeological sites in the Middle Euphrates valley (10,800-10,300 years ago), the Tigris basin (~10,200 years ago), and the Northern Jordan Valley (during the 8th millennium) exhibit the initial morphological indicators of domestication, such as reduction in sexual dimorphism and body size.
“Sites in the Middle Euphrates valley (10,800–10,300 years ago), the Tigris basin (~10,200 years ago), and the Northern Jordan Valley (during the 8th millennium) exhibit the initial morphological indicators of domestication, such as reduction in sexual dimorphism and body size [22,23,24].”
From The Genomic Landscape of Cattle: Domestication, Dispersal, and Adaptive Evolution (2026) · cites this paper as [24]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 55 · Cited by 56
Research works printed but not linked: 5
- [12]Zeder MA (2006) Archaeological approaches to documenting animal domestication. In: Zeder MA, Bradley D, Emshwiller E, Smith BD, editors. Documenting domestication: New genetic and archaeological paradigms. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 171–180.
- [22]Hongo H, Meadow RH (1998) Pig exploitation at Neolithic Çayönü Tepesi (southeastern Anatolia). In: Nelson SM, editor. Ancestors for the pigs: Pigs in prehistory. Pensylvannia: MASCA. pp. 77–98.
- [32]Davis SJM (2012) Animal bones at the Nahal Zehora sites. In: Gopher A, Brakai R, editors. Archaeological investigations at Nahal Zehora: Villages of the Pottery Neolithic in the Menashe Hills, Israel. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology. pp. 1258–1320.
- [43]Stephens DW, Krebs JR (1986) Foraging theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- [45]Redding RW (2005) Breaking the mold: A consideration of variationin the evolution of animal domestication. In: Vigne JD, Peters J, Helmer D, editors. First steps in animals domestication: New zooarchaeological approaches. Oxford: Oxbow. pp.41–48.
- Authors
- Marom, N., & Bar-Oz, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Haifa (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Marom, Nimrod
- ORCID
- Marom, Nimrod
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2013-02-06
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e55958
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3566106
- OpenAlex
- W2045565122
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Council for Higher Education
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Keywords
- cattle domestication, pig domestication, overhunting, osteometry, social organization, Jordan Valley, animal demography
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animals, Domestic, Cattle, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, Male, Population Dynamics, Predatory Behavior, Survival Rate, Sus scrofa
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
