Resumen de Climate chage and the advent of domestication: the succesion of ruminant artiodactyls in the late Pleistocene-Holocene period in the Israel region
Two faunal changes occurred in the Late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeo-faunal sequence in the Israel Region. The first. 12- 11.000 BP. is characterised by a reduction or disappearance, in three of four localities, of the fallow deer. This first change correlates with climatic data, which indicates aridification. and with man's supposed increasing exploitation of wild cereals. The second faunal change occurred in the Neolithic a millennium or two later, and signifies the advent of animal domestication. It is characterised by increased occurrence of goat and cattle. Later assemblages consist almost entirely of caprines, cattle and some pig. The Neolithic change was probably gradual since gazelle were still hunted in this period. More evidence is required, however, to establish the time of introduction of sheep and domestication of cattle.
