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Chemical evidence of dairying by hunter-gatherers in highland Lesotho in the late first millennium AD

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The recovery of Early Iron Age artefacts and domestic animal remains from hunter-gatherer contexts at Likoaeng, Lesotho, has been argued to indicate contact between highland hunter-gatherers and Early Iron Age agropastoralist communities settled in lowland areas of southeastern Africa during the second half of the first millennium AD. However, disagreement between archaeozoological studies and ancient DNA means that the possibility that those hunter-gatherers kept livestock themselves remains...

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10.1038/s41562-020-0859-0

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0000-0002-9093-3490
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University of Oxford
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SSD
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School of Archaeology
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0000-0003-1417-3060
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0000-0003-2012-2753
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Nature Research Publisher's website
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Nature Human Behaviour Journal website
Volume:
4
Issue:
8
Pages:
791-799
Publication date:
2020-05-11
Acceptance date:
2020-03-13
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2397-3374
Pmid:
32393839
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English
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1106614
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pubs:1106614
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2020-09-23

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