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The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

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The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road. / Haruda, A.F.; Miller, A.R. Ventresca; Paijmans, Johanna et al.
In: Scientific Reports, 09.07.2020.

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Haruda, AF, Miller, ARV, Paijmans, J, Barlow, A, Tazhekeyev, A, Bailov, S, Hesse, Y, Preick, M, King, T, Thomas, R, Harke, H & Arzhantseva, L 2020, 'The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road', Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6

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Haruda, A. F., Miller, A. R. V., Paijmans, J., Barlow, A., Tazhekeyev, A., Bailov, S., Hesse, Y., Preick, M., King, T., Thomas, R., Harke, H., & Arzhantseva, L. (2020). The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6

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Haruda AF, Miller ARV, Paijmans J, Barlow A, Tazhekeyev A, Bailov S, Hesse Y, Preick M, King T, Thomas R, et al. 2020. The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6

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Haruda, A.F. et al. "The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road". Scientific Reports. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6

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Haruda AF, Miller ARV, Paijmans J, Barlow A, Tazhekeyev A, Bailov S et al. The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road. Scientific Reports. 2020 Jul 9. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6

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Haruda, A.F. ; Miller, A.R. Ventresca ; Paijmans, Johanna et al. / The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road. In: Scientific Reports. 2020.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road

AU - Haruda, A.F.

AU - Miller, A.R. Ventresca

AU - Paijmans, Johanna

AU - Barlow, Axel

AU - Tazhekeyev, A.

AU - Bailov, S.

AU - Hesse, Y.

AU - Preick, Michaela

AU - King, T.

AU - Thomas, R.

AU - Harke, H.

AU - Arzhantseva, L.

PY - 2020/7/9

Y1 - 2020/7/9

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6

DO - 10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6

M3 - Article

JO - Scientific Reports

JF - Scientific Reports

SN - 2045-2322

ER -