Getting your goat

I'm copyediting a book for Lockwood Press, Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs in Pharaonic Egypt: A View from the Herd (it's not on the website yet), that will be appearing next year. The final paragraph in chapter 12, on goats, is too good not to share:

I include labor under goats because a recent article appeared by Donna Sutliff (2019) that suggests that goats may have been domesticated for use as pack animals, or, at the very least, their ability to carry loads was quickly appreciated and used in the Neolithic. Sutliff provides only two modern examples of the use of goats as pack animals. The first is in Tibet and the second in North America where, according to Sutliff, hiking with pack goats is a popular “American Pastime.” She cites several authors who have dismissed the idea and I would like to join them.

For the record: I can't see goats being used as pack animals!