title: Fauna of Catal Hüyük: evidence for early cattle domestication in Anatolia.
abstract: Analysis of the remains of cattle from Catal Hüyük indicates that cattle were domesticated in Anatolia by 5800 B.C., and strongly suggests that they were probably domestic at least 500 years earlier. This is the earliest known evidence for the domestication of cattle in the Near East.
mesh_terms: D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D001106:Archaeology; D001211:Asia, Western; D002417:Cattle; D003670:Deer; D004285:Dogs; D005121:Extremities; D006041:Goats; D006811:Humerus; D010527:Perissodactyla; D013552:Swine