Ostrich distribution and exploitation in the Arabian peninsula.

From: Antiquity | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: POTTS, D.T. | Copyright information

Introduction

Consider these two facts:

1 Not one ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus) bone has ever been recorded in an archaeological excavation anywhere in the Arabian peninsula;

2 the ostrich does not inhabit this region today. If a statement of this sort were made about virtually any other bird or animal, one would not hesitate to declare its historic absence from the region in question. Yet the presence of ostrich in Arabia in the recent past i...

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