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Cows, Genes, and African Cowboys: How Paleogenetics Could Support the Role of Afro-descending Workers in the Emergence of Cattle Ranching in Early Spanish America (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite long term study, the history of the introduction of cattle and their management practices in the Western Hemisphere staring in the 16th century is particularly complex and there is still uncertainty around the origins and the distribution of the animals through time. While the traditional historical scholarship suggests...