Animal domestication in the era of ancient genomics

LAF Frantz, DG Bradley, G Larson… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The domestication of animals led to a major shift in human subsistence patterns, from a
hunter–gatherer to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle, which ultimately resulted in the …

A potential pitfall in studies of biological shape: does size matter?

D Outomuro, F Johansson - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The number of published studies using geometric morphometrics (GM) for analysing
biological shape has increased steadily since the beginning of the 1990s, covering multiple …

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

LAF Frantz, J Haile, AT Lin, A Scheu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by∼ 10,500 y before
the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs …

The archaeology of pig domestication in Eurasia

M Price, H Hongo - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2020 - Springer
The multifaceted behavioral and ecological flexibility of pigs and wild boar (Sus scrofa)
makes study of their domestication both complex and of broad anthropological significance …

Between the Danube and the deep blue sea: Zooarchaeological meta-analysis reveals variability in the spread and development of Neolithic farming across the …

DC Orton, J Gaastra, M Vander Linden - Open Quaternary, 2016 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
The first spread of farming practices into Europe in the Neolithic period involves two
distinct'streams', respectively around the Mediterranean littoral and along the Danube …

Pioneer farming in southeast Europe during the early sixth millennium BC: Climate-related adaptations in the exploitation of plants and animals

M Ivanova, B De Cupere, J Ethier, E Marinova - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The Old World farming system arose in the semi-arid Mediterranean environments of
southwest Asia. Pioneer farmers settling the interior of the Balkans by the early sixth …

Investigating livestock management in the early Neolithic archaeological site of Cabecicos Negros (Almería, Spain) from the organic residue analysis in pottery

N Tarifa-Mateo, M Saña, X Clop, A Rosell-Melé… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This paper seeks to reconstruct the management of food resources in the early Neolithic site
of Cabecicos Negros in southeastern Spain. For this purpose, we have studied 29 potsherds …

The process of animal domestication

M Sánchez-Villagra - 2022 - torrossa.com
Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …

Social Complexification and Pig (Sus scrofa) Husbandry in Ancient China: A Combined Geometric Morphometric and Isotopic Approach

T Cucchi, L Dai, M Balasse, C Zhao, J Gao, Y Hu… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Pigs have played a major role in the economic, social and symbolic systems of China since
the Early Neolithic more than 8,000 years ago. However, the interaction between the history …

[图书][B] Evolution of a taboo: pigs and people in the ancient Near East

MD Price - 2020 - books.google.com
Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their
story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious …