image: Horses and Gers near Khoton (Syrgal) Lake near the Altai Mountains of Mongolia. view more
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The transition to dairy farming and horse husbandry may have fueled the rise of complex societies in Bronze Age Mongolia
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265775
Article Title: The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: How livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia
Author Countries: U.S.A., Germany, Switzerland, U.K., Mongolia, China, France, Australia, Canada
Funding: The authors would like to thank the Max Planck Society for providing funding for this project (NB). Funding for excavations was provided by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (TsT, JB) and the Institut des déserts et des steppes (TsT, PHG). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLoS ONE
Article Title
The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: How livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia
Article Publication Date
11-May-2022
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.