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Fayum Neolithic, Food Production
(about 5000-4000 BC)

animals plants

1. Wild animals:

  • canis
  • vulpes
  • gazelle
  • alcelaphus
  • hippopotamus
  • elephants
  • turtles
  • waterfowl
  • crocodiles
  • helix desertorum (a snail)

2. Domestic animals (with numbers of bones found)

  • cattle (9)
  • sheep or goat (8)
  • pig (5)
  • dog (5)

Unfortunately a more thorough study of the bones has not yet been carried out. The degree of domestication is unknown.

 

  • barley (hordeum hexastichum, hordeum vulgare, hordeum distichum)
  • wheat (triticum dicoccum)
  • flax/linum usitatissimum
  • maybe polygonum serrulatum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wetterstrom 1993: 207-211 (on food production in the Fayum Neolithic, with further literature)


 

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