Were there royal herds? Understanding herd management and mobility using isotopic characterizations of cattle tooth enamel from Early Dynastic Ur

During the third millennium BC, Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in modern Iraq-Syria), was dominated by the world’s earliest cities and states, which were ruled by powerful elites. Ur, in present-day southern Iraq, was one of the largest and most important of these cit...

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Main Authors: Tina L. Greenfield, Augusta M. McMahon, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Hazel Reade, Chris Holmden, Alexandra C. Fletcher, Richard L. Zettler, Cameron A. Petrie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9200365/?tool=EBI