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How do goat remains from Ali Kosh show signs of domestication?

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Domesticated yaks carrying supplies in colorful bundles walk along a rocky mountain trail toward Everest Base Camp, with snow-covered peaks in the background in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. — Domestication Domesticated yaks (*Bos grunniens*) carrying supplies to an Everest base camp in Sagarmatha National Park, Khumbu region, Nepal.

At the Ali Kosh site in Iran, goat remains provide clear evidence of domestication because the female specimens lack horns.1

This site is located at a lower elevation outside the natural range of wild goats, indicating that the animals were brought there by humans. The absence of horns in females is a morphological change often associated with the selective pressures of managed herds, where humans may have favored specific traits or controlled breeding populations.1