Resumen de An early date for cattle from Namaqualand, South Africa. Implications for the origins of herding in southern Africa

Jayson Orton, Peter Mitchell, Richard Klein, Teresa Steele, K. Ann Horsburgh

• When did cattle come to South Africa? Radiocarbon dates on a newly found cow horn indicates a time in the early first millennium AD. In a study of the likely context for the advent of cattle herding, the authors favour immigrants moving along a western route through Namibia.