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Dromedaries in antiquity: Iberia and beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Arturo Morales Muñiz,
Jose A. Riquelme and
Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck
Arturo Morales Muñiz
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Arqueozoología, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
Jose A. Riquelme
Affiliation:
Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad de Granada, E-18011 Granada, Spain
Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Arqueozoología, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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A handful of finds of camel bones from Iberia now illuminate the faint story of camels in Roman and Muslim Europe–and hint at why the dromedary never became established as a domesticate in the peninsula.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 263 , June 1995, pp. 368 - 375
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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