“…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, ).…”