著者

Renato Sala

出版者

The Japanese Association for Arid Land Studies

雑誌

沙漠研究 (ISSN:09176985)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, no.4, pp.205-211, 2017 (Released:2017-05-04)

参考文献数

31

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The domestication of camels happened at the start of the III millennium BC in their natural habitats, for the dromedary in SE-Arabia, for the Bactrian camel in SW-Central Asia. Three steps of camel domestication and use are distinguished: for harvesting its body products, as transport animal (drafted, loaded, and ridden), as military animal. With the start of the I millennium BC the introduction of new saddle types and of hybridization techniques promoted, in all the arid expanses of Afro-Eurasia, the growing superiority of the loaded camel over wheels and draft transports, and of camelry over cavalry.