RT Journal Article
T1 Sheep in Early Neolithic settlements in South Iberia, insights from proteomics
A1 Domínguez Castillo, Carmen
A1 García-Viñas, Esteban
A1 Bernáldez-Sánchez, Eloísa
A1 Hortal, Ana R.
A1 Villalón-Torres, David
A1 Taylor, Ruth
A1 García-Rivero, Daniel
A1 Martínez-Haya, Bruno
K1 Paleoproteomics
K1 ZooMS
K1 Mass spectrometry
K1 Sheep
K1 Caprines
K1 Husbandry
K1 Neolithic
AB The presence of sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hircus) in the Iberian Peninsula Early Neolithic provides key information about livestock dispersion from the seminal regions of domestication towards Western Europe, involving synergic processes of husbandry, migration and cultural exchange. In this study, mass spectrometry based paleoproteomics is employed to identify caprines from osseous and dental archaeological materials collected at two paradigmatic Neolithic sites in the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, the caves of Dehesilla and Chica de Santiago. The radiocarbon dating places some of the specimens among the earliest Iberian sheep identified to date (circa 7500 cal BP), enriching the archaeological record of livestock management in an Iberian region in which well-dated Neolithic settlements remain scarce. The proteomic analysis updates previous identifications based on morphological criteria. The identifications support the relevance of sheep and its predominanceover goat in the Early Neolithic levels of the two archaeological sites investigated. They also suggest that the seminal populations materially linked to the impressa pottery, that reached in the South of the Iberian peninsula at the end of the first half of the 8th millennium BP are associated with the management of sheep. This supports a scenario in which sheep spread rapidly within the preceding centuries from the Central Mediterranean to the Iberian Peninsula.
PB Elsevier
YR 2016
FD 2016-01-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/26369
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/26369
LA en
NO Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 70 (2026) 105600
NO Proyectos de investigaciónTED2021-130683BC21PRIN 2022 - COD. 2022ELZECR – MALTHUS
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales
DS RIO
RD May 22, 2026