The Antiquity of Dairying in Asia and Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4857082 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick J Simoons (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 431 |
| Publication date | 1971-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/213437 |
| OpenAlex | W1990629047 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
EDUARD HAHN, writing in the late nineteenth century' and basing his views largely on archeological and literary remains of the great civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria which date from about 1800 B.C. and later, advanced the hypothesis that Mesopotamia was the place of earliest milking, that common cattle (Bos taurus) were the first domesticated animals to be milked, and that initially they were milked to provide offerings, intended to assure crop fertility, as part of the cult of the lunar mother goddess. Only later, Hahn felt, did milk come into secular use and did other animals come to be milked. Since Hahn's time, various aspects of his hypothesis have been criticized, but the predominance of scholarly opinion still holds that the earliest clear evidence of dairying is for Mesopotamia. The purpose of the present paper is to weigh the Mesopotamian evidence of dairying and to compare it with the African evidence for Egypt and the Sahara
Ancient history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Ancient Near East History · Animal Diversity and Health Studies · History · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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The diet of nineteenth-century Greek sailors
Provoking lactation by the insufflation technique as documented by the rock images of the Sahara
Cattle and the Rise of the Egyptian State
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 2020 (50) |
| Highly cited | No |