The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 07 2020
09 07 2020
Historique:
received:
21
10
2019
accepted:
15
06
2020
entrez:
11
7
2020
pubmed:
11
7
2020
medline:
23
1
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We present the earliest evidence for domestic cat (Felis catus L., 1758) from Kazakhstan, found as a well preserved skeleton with extensive osteological pathologies dating to 775-940 cal CE from the early medieval city of Dzhankent, Kazakhstan. This urban settlement was located on the intersection of the northern Silk Road route which linked the cities of Khorezm in the south to the trading settlements in the Volga region to the north and was known in the tenth century CE as the capital of the nomad Oghuz. The presence of this domestic cat, presented here as an osteobiography using a combination of zooarchaeological, genetic, and isotopic data, provides proxy evidence for a fundamental shift in the nature of human-animal relationships within a previously pastoral region. This illustrates the broader social, cultural, and economic changes occurring within the context of rapid urbanisation during the early medieval period along the Silk Road.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32647113
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6
pmc: PMC7347622
doi:
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Types de publication
Historical Article
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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