Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia

Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia

Abstract Feasting played an important role in cementing social bonds between prehistoric communities. At Early Neolithic Asiab, western Iran, ceremonial feasting is evidenced by the butchered skulls of nineteen wild boars (Sus scrofa), an animal that was not commonly hunted in the region at the time...

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Main Authors: Petra Vaiglova, Horst Kierdorf, Carsten Witzel, Georgina Falster, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Yue Wang, Jiade Wu, Ian Williams, Brett Knowles, Yang Wu, Pernille Bangsgaard, Lisa Yeomans, Tobias Richter, Hojjat Darabi
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Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02501-z
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