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Earliest evidence for equid bit wear in the ancient Near East: The "ass" from Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

Analysis of a sacrificed and interred domestic donkey from an Early Bronze Age (EB) IIIB (c. 2800–2600 BCE) domestic residential neighborhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel, indicate the presence of bit wear on the Lower Premolar 2 (LPM2). This is the earliest evidence for the use of a bit among early...

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Autores principales: Greenfield, Haskel J., Shai, Itzhaq, Greenfield, Tina L., Arnold, Elizabeth R., Brown, Annie, Eliyahu, Adi, Maeir, Aren M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5955536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29768439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196335