Were there royal herds? Understanding herd management and mobility using isotopic characterizations of cattle tooth enamel from Early Dynastic Ur

• Tina L. Greenfield ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tlg477@mail.usask.ca (TLG); amm36@cam.ac.uk (AMM)

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1826-1842

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• Augusta M. McMahon ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tlg477@mail.usask.ca (TLG); amm36@cam.ac.uk (AMM)

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Tamsin C. O’Connell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Hazel Reade,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Chris Holmden,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Alexandra C. Fletcher,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Horse Racing Museum Palace Street, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

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• Richard L. Zettler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Cameron A. Petrie

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Senior Author

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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