The Suidae are a family of Cetartiodactyla composed of 17 species classified in a minimum
of five extant genera that originated at least 20 million years ago. Their success is evident in …

The domestication of plants and animals is a key transition in human history, and its
profound and continuing impacts are the focus of a broad range of transdisciplinary research …

Abstract Starting with dogs, over 15,000 years ago, the domestication of animals has been
central in the development of modern societies. Because of its importance for a range of …

The introduction of pottery vessels to Europe has long been seen as closely linked with the
spread of agriculture and pastoralism from the Near East. The adoption of pottery technology …

This paper aims to identify a series of conceptual, strategic and technological challenges
facing archaeozoology (and archaeobotany) in order to better understand when, where, how …

Four isolated canid skulls from four sites (Badyarikha River, Tirekhtyakh River, Ulakhan
Sular, Malyi Lyakhovsky Island) in the Sakha Republic of northern Siberia are here …

In south-eastern Romania, a prominent place was given to pigs in the Gumelniţa culture
(Late Chalcolithic, second half of 5th millennium BC); as was the highly prized wild boar …

The antiquity of the wolf/dog domestication has been recently pushed back in time from the
Late Upper Paleolithic (~ 14,000 years ago) to the Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP;~ 36,000 …

Artificial selection affects phenotypes differently by natural selection. Domestic traits, which
pass into the wild, are usually negatively selected. Yet, exceptionally, this axiom may fail to …

This paper presents a stable isotope and radiocarbon study on a total of 85 samples of wild
boar (Sus scrofa), humans (Homo sapiens), dogs (Canis familiaris), red deer (Cervus …