Rebuttal of Taylor and Barrón-Ortiz 2021 Rethinking the evidence for early horse domestication at Botai
dc.contributor.author | Outram, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Bendrey, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Evershed, RP | |
dc.contributor.author | Orlando, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Zaibert, VF | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-29T14:33:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-28 | |
dc.description.abstract | Taylor and Barrón-Ortiz (2021) present a reconsideration of the evidence for early horse husbandry in the Eneolithic Botai Culture of Northern Kazakhstan. However, their critique misrepresents key methodologies applied in the original analyses, demonstrates fundamental scientific misunderstanding of the stable isotopic evidence, omits key details about recent proteomic evidence and underplays or ignores a raft of other evidential lines. This rebuttal paper addresses these points. Additionally, the only primary evidence presented in Taylor and Barrón-Ortiz (2021), relating tooth wear patterns in North American wild horses, if correctly presented, adds more empirical weight to the conclusion that Botai-type wear patterns are only seen in bitted animals. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Commission | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5281/zenodo.5142604 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/B504506/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/P001009/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/126599 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Zenodo | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86832-9 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.title | Rebuttal of Taylor and Barrón-Ortiz 2021 Rethinking the evidence for early horse domestication at Botai | en_GB |
dc.type | Preprint | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-29T14:33:23Z | |
dc.description | This is the pre-print. Available from Zenodo via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | This is a rebuttal of: Taylor, W.T.T., Barrón-Ortiz, C.I. Rethinking the evidence for early horse domestication at Botai. Sci Rep 11, 7440 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86832-9 | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::European Commission | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-07-28 | |
rioxxterms.type | Other | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-07-29T14:27:29Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-07-29T14:33:39Z |
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