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Chickens in Africa: the importance of Qasr Ibrim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kevin C. Macdonald  and
David N. Edwards
Kevin C. Macdonald
Affiliation:
Clare Hall, Cambridge CB3 9AL, England
David N. Edwards
Affiliation:
St Johns College, Cambridge CB2 1TP, England
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Abstract

An articulated hen's skeleton, set under the doorway of a building at the celebrated desiccated site of Qasr Ibrim in Egyptian Nubia, is cause to look again at the flight of chickens into Africa.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993 , pp. 584 - 590
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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