Cervids: Lineage, Presence and Representations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
Persian and European fallow deer formed part of the Levantine Neolithic Package were worshiped as... more Persian and European fallow deer formed part of the Levantine Neolithic Package were worshiped as Greco-Roman deities and, over millennia, were the subject of repeated human-mediated translocations and extirpations. By integrating biomolecular datasets with archaeological and textual evidence, we reveal these species' biocultural historiesspanning their Glacial refugia to their global spread as symbols of colonial power. The deep histories of fallow deer highlight the problems inherent in dichotomous categorizations of all species as either wild or domestic. In addition, they complicate existing wildlife conservation strategies and offer alternative perspectives on the management of translocated animals.
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