The role of local domestication on the island of Cyprus during the Neolithic transition (10,000-7000 BCE)

Due to the insular location, farming emerged in Cyprus mostly through the introduction of plants and animals from nearby continent, throughout the 9th and 8th millennia BCE. These included wild cultivated einkorn and emmer during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) and ungulates during the PPNB. However, large osteoarchaeological samples from Klimonas and Shillourokambos sites, revealed an interesting diversity in the processes. Cattle and sheep were introduced as early domesticates, c. 8500 and