caprovine

plural caprovines

1. archaeologyA domestic sheep or goat.

   Synonyms: ovicaprid

1. not comparablearchaeologyOf, relating to, or designating domestic sheep or goats.

   We can conclude at this point that communitie with caprovine husbandry are certainly attested in northern Africa, particularly in Sudan, at about 5000 bc.

   2005, Peter Bellwood, “Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development?”, in The First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 106

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   Four questions are inherent in any reconstruction of prehistoric caprovine (sheep and goat) husbandry from faunal remains: the ratio of sheep to goats, the sex-ratio, the distribution of age with death, and the relative numerical importance of the two species within the faunal spectrum.

   1968, C. F. W. Higham, “Trends in Prehistoric European Caprovine Husbandry”, in Man, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

   As regards the bovine and caprovine remains associated in these sites to the Cardial style pottery, [Marta] Camps (1982) noted that “It would seem that in this area the introduction of domesticated animals coincided with the beginning of the pottery production.”

   2014, Giuseppina Mutri, “North and Saharan Africa: Geography and Chronology”, in Claire Smith, editor, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, New York, N.Y.: SpringerReference, →ISBN, page 5448, column 2

   Synonyms: ovicaprid