Table 2 Number of identified specimen counts.

From: Zooarchaeology of the social and economic upheavals in the Late Antique-Early Islamic sequence of the Negev Desert

Taxon

Nessana

Halutza

Avdat

Shivta

Total

Late Byzantine

Early Islamic

Early-Middle Byzantine

Late Roman – Early Byzantine

Late Byzantine

Early Islamic

NISP

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Sheep

9

Β 

29

Β 

44

Β 

125

Β 

9

Β 

6

Β 

222

Goat

30

Β 

26

Β 

55

Β 

66

Β 

20

Β 

7

Β 

204

Sh/G

60

70

141

50

288

87

196

80

84

79

50

75

819

Pig

11

8

69

18

23

5

1

*

16

11

2

3

122

Cattle

3

2

6

2

7

1

10

2

1

*

Β Β 

27

Camel

1

*

Β Β Β Β 

18

4

1

*

1

1

21

Equid

3

2

4

1

1

*

13

3

1

*

Β Β 

22

Chicken

10

7

34

9

20

5

45

9

5

3

9

11

123

Pigeon

3

2

3

1

1

*

1

*

2

*

1

1

11

Hartebeest

2

1

3

1

1

*

9

2

Β Β Β Β 

15

Gazelle

8

6

70

18

2

*

1

*

1

*

4

5

86

Hare

Β Β 

4

1

1

*

Β Β Β Β 

1

1

6

Duck

Β Β 

1

*

Β Β 

1

*

Β Β Β Β 

2

Reptile

1

*

4

1

Β Β Β Β 

3

2

3

4

11

Total

141

Β 

394

Β 

443

Β 

486

Β 

143

Β 

84

Β 

1691

  1. Sh/G = sheep/goat. * = less than one percent.
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