“…Early evidence for the domestication of cattle in the middle Euphrates region and the southern Levant has been dated to the seventh millennium bc (summarized in Drechsler, ). In Anatolia, cattle herding appears to have been well established by the eighth millennium bc (Peters, Buitenhuis, Grupe, Schmidt, & Pöllath, ), while in southern Arabia, domestic cattle are known from the late sixth millennium bc (McCorriston & Martin, ). In the more arid regions of eastern and southern Jordan, livestock was dominated by caprine herding (Martin & Edwards, ; see also Henry et al., ; Rollefson, Rowan, & Wasse, ).…”