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The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

We present the earliest evidence for domestic cat (Felis catus L., 1758) from Kazakhstan, found as a well preserved skeleton with extensive osteological pathologies dating to 775–940 cal CE from the early medieval city of Dzhankent, Kazakhstan. This urban settlement was located on the intersection o...

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Autores principales: Haruda, A. F., Ventresca Miller, A. R., Paijmans, J. L. A., Barlow, A., Tazhekeyev, A., Bilalov, S., Hesse, Y., Preick, M., King, T., Thomas, R., Härke, H., Arzhantseva, I.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7347622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32647113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6
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author Haruda, A. F.
Ventresca Miller, A. R.
Paijmans, J. L. A.
Barlow, A.
Tazhekeyev, A.
Bilalov, S.
Hesse, Y.
Preick, M.
King, T.
Thomas, R.
Härke, H.
Arzhantseva, I.
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Ventresca Miller, A. R.
Paijmans, J. L. A.
Barlow, A.
Tazhekeyev, A.
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Preick, M.
King, T.
Thomas, R.
Härke, H.
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description We present the earliest evidence for domestic cat (Felis catus L., 1758) from Kazakhstan, found as a well preserved skeleton with extensive osteological pathologies dating to 775–940 cal CE from the early medieval city of Dzhankent, Kazakhstan. This urban settlement was located on the intersection of the northern Silk Road route which linked the cities of Khorezm in the south to the trading settlements in the Volga region to the north and was known in the tenth century CE as the capital of the nomad Oghuz. The presence of this domestic cat, presented here as an osteobiography using a combination of zooarchaeological, genetic, and isotopic data, provides proxy evidence for a fundamental shift in the nature of human-animal relationships within a previously pastoral region. This illustrates the broader social, cultural, and economic changes occurring within the context of rapid urbanisation during the early medieval period along the Silk Road.
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spelling pubmed-73476222020-07-10 The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road Haruda, A. F. Ventresca Miller, A. R. Paijmans, J. L. A. Barlow, A. Tazhekeyev, A. Bilalov, S. Hesse, Y. Preick, M. King, T. Thomas, R. Härke, H. Arzhantseva, I. Sci Rep Article We present the earliest evidence for domestic cat (Felis catus L., 1758) from Kazakhstan, found as a well preserved skeleton with extensive osteological pathologies dating to 775–940 cal CE from the early medieval city of Dzhankent, Kazakhstan. This urban settlement was located on the intersection of the northern Silk Road route which linked the cities of Khorezm in the south to the trading settlements in the Volga region to the north and was known in the tenth century CE as the capital of the nomad Oghuz. The presence of this domestic cat, presented here as an osteobiography using a combination of zooarchaeological, genetic, and isotopic data, provides proxy evidence for a fundamental shift in the nature of human-animal relationships within a previously pastoral region. This illustrates the broader social, cultural, and economic changes occurring within the context of rapid urbanisation during the early medieval period along the Silk Road. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7347622/ /pubmed/32647113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Hesse, Y.
Preick, M.
King, T.
Thomas, R.
Härke, H.
Arzhantseva, I.
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