Full title: "Livestock and people in a Middle Chalcolithic settlement: a micromorphological investigation from Tel Tsaf, Israel"
social stratfication/... means some were wealthier than others?
really, is that a shock?
It`s much easier for an animal to run in a circle;
harder to run in a rectangle.
This guy needs to get out of the ivory tower more often. Of course properly managed breeding stock produces surplus. Why was Abraham tending flocks, hello?
Incidentally, that is the entire premise of the Heifer Project. Giving a poor third-world family breeding stock can quickly lift them out of poverty by the standards of the place. And once a village has several families doing this it can lift the entire village.
