Relative proportions (%) of different animal groups of Egyptian Neolithic and (early) Predynastic sites and numbers of domesticated animals identified.

Phases: 1: older than the 6th mill. BC; 2: ca. 6th mill. BC; 3: ca. 5th mill. BC
(1): mainly sheep, including probably Barbary sheep; (2) but 3 sheep bones have been found in an other collection at this site than the one included here; (3) but 1 bone probably from later period; (4): identification uncertain
Based on Numbers of Identified Specimens (NISP). Only precisely identified remains of sheep, goat, sheep/goat and cattle are retained here. For similar data on younger Predynastic sites see Linseele et al. [92]
Remark: As in Table 3, the proportions are based on number of identified remains in each category. Animals considered as intrusive have not been included. Where the specimens could not be precisely identified, they were attributed to specific species using the same proportions in which these species occur in the precisely identified specimens.
Relative proportions (%) of different animal groups of Egyptian Neolithic and (early) Predynastic sites and numbers of domesticated animals identified.