What the pig ate: A microbotanical study of pig dental calculus from 10th-3rd millennium BC northern Mesopotamia
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- 作者：Sadie Weber ; sweber@fas.harvard.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Max D. Price maxprice@fas.harvard.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Microbotanical analysis ; Dental calculus ; Pig husbandry
- 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：April 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：6
- 期：Complete
- 页码：819-827
- 全文大小：691 K
文摘
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Pigs had access to household refuse beginning in at least the late Neolithic.
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Pigs at 3rd mil sites ate Triticeae and other grasses, possibly indicating foddering.
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A synthesis of zooarcheological and archeobotanical research is proposed.