Domestication (Other Keyword)

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Agriculture is a state of mind- the Andean potato’s unending domestication (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Hastorf.

Most scholars agree that territoriality and commitment to a landscape participated in the domestication syndrome and agriculture. The geophyte Solanum, the potato, is a particularly engaging crop to study domestication origins, being a stem tuber, with wild species growing throughout the Andes of South America, it is only with recent genetic research that we know its likely location of domestication. Wild potatoes continue to be found in potato fields today, aiding the diverse varieties still...


Ancient DNA analysis of early Neolithic cattle from Houtaomuga site, Northern China (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawei Cai. Quanjia Chen. Hui Zhou. Dongya Y Yang.

The Houtaomuga site is located on the east bank of Xinhuangpao Lake, in Da'an County, Jilin Province, Northeast China. According to the archaeological excavations, the Houtaomuga site can be divided into seven phases from the early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (8000-2050 BP). Although many Bos skeletal remains were found in the phases Houtaomuga III (6300-5500 cal. BP) and Houtaomuga IV (5000 cal. BP), it was very difficult to identify to the species level. In this study, ancient DNA...


Ancient Dogs of the Tennessee River Valley (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meagan Dennison.

Skeletal remains of domestic dogs, particularly dog burials, are common from prehistoric archaeological sites in the Southeastern United States. Efforts to describe these ancient canines have traditionally focused on body size and cranial morphology, however, more recently paleopathology has played a key role in understanding ancient canine lifeways and the interactions between humans and domestic dogs. Mortuary analysis can also bolster interpretations of life histories and dogs’ roles within...


Animal Domestication in the Andes. In: Advances In Andean Archaeology (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth S. Wing.

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Archaeobotany and Early Farming in Europe (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin W. Dennell.

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Chasing Rabbits: Investigating Domesticated Leporids at Jefferson’s Monticello (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie M.J. Hall.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent excavations at Monticello’s South Pavilion provided researchers the opportunity to analyze faunal remains from fill which originated in the plantation’s first kitchen yard and environs. Preliminary analysis suggests food procurement on the site fits patterns seen in newly-established plantations across the Chesapeake region, in which the percentage of wild game brought to the...


Chromosome Botany and the Origin of Cultivated Plants (1956)
DOCUMENT Citation Only C. D. Darlington.

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Crop Management and Domestication in Eastern North America Inspired Both Cooperative Niche Construction and Territorial Competition (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elic Weitzel. Brian Codding. Stephen B. Carmody. David Zeanah.

This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much recent research has emphasized the importance of both within-group cooperation and between-group competition in the human past. We hypothesize that the shift from foraging to food production in Eastern North America provided novel ecological conditions which impacted human sociality in the...


Demestication of Yams: a Multi-Disciplinary Problem. in Science In Archaeolgoy: a Survey of Progress and Research (1969)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Alexander.

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Dietary DNA Analysis of Mississippian Dog Coprolites (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Witt. Julie M. Allen. Steven R. Kuehn. Mary L. Simon. Ripan S. Malhi.

Traditional methods for assessing diet of animal coprolite samples include targeted PCR and sequencing of specific genes. While useful for species identification, focusing on a single gene region disregards the plant and animal DNA fragments that are from other parts of the genome. Here we used next-generation sequencing methods to sequence DNA from coprolite samples from Terminal Late Woodland and Mississippian dogs from the Janey B. Goode site in Southern Illinois. BLAST searches were used to...


Domestication of Food Plants in the Old World (1959)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Helback.

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Domestication of Pulses in the Old World (1973)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Zohary. Maria Hopf.

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Domestication of Sunflower and Sumpweed in Eastern North America (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A. Yarnell.

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Domestication through the Bottleneck:Archaeogenomic Evidence of a Landscape Scale Process (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Allaby. Roselyn Ware. Logan Kistler.

This is an abstract from the "Frontiers of Plant Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Domesticated crops show a reduced level of diversity that is commonly attributed to the ‘domestication bottleneck’; a drastic reduction in the population size associated with sub-sampling the wild progenitor species and the imposition of selection pressures associated with the domestication syndrome. A prediction of the domestication bottleneck is a...


The earliest domesticated dogs in the Midcontinent: Chronology, Morphology, and Paleopathology (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Widga. Dennis Lawler.

The Midwest has the earliest and possibly richest record of dog burials in North America. New direct AMS 14C dates on Archaic-period canids from the region confirms this pattern (Koster Horizon XI, 10,130-9680 cal BP; Stilwell II, 10,200-9630 cal BP; Rodgers Shelter, 9000-8600 cal BP; Rodgers Shelter 8560-8210 cal BP). We use 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics to assess variability in the morphology of wild and domesticated Canidae from midwestern Archaic assemblages (10,000-6000 cal BP). Health...


Early Human Control over Ungulate Taxa in the southern Levant (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Munro. Jacqueline Meier. Lidar Sapir-Hen.

An expanding catalog of faunal assemblages spanning the Late Epipaleolithic through Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) periods in the southern Levant points to growing human control over taxa that eventually become domesticated (wild goat, wild pig and wild cattle). This change in human-animal relationships occurs several centuries if not millennia before evidence for full-fledged management and domestication are visible in the archaeo-zoological record. We explore this shift by referencing data from...


The Emergence and Distribution of Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the Upper Tennessee River Valley (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Baumann. Gary Crites. Lynne Sullivan.

This is a preliminary study of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) recovered from late prehistoric and historic Native American sites in East Tennessee. Beans are known to be the last domesticated plant that was adopted by late prehistoric cultures in the Eastern Woodlands. In the Southeast, the emergence of beans is not clearly understood because no regional studies have been done and very few samples have been directly dated to establish a chronology. This problem is addressed by analyzing the spatial...


Evidence for Domestication of the Dog 12,000 Years Ago in the Natufian of Israel (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S. J. M. Davis. F. R. Valla.

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Exploring the multiple pathways towards agriculture within China, the case for rice and millets. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Stevens.

Studies of evolutionary change within selected traits for rice indicate a period of interaction from the cultivation of morphologically wild plants (Oryza rufipogon) to the eventual farming of domesticated rice (Oryza sativa ssp. japonica) that lasted around 3000 years. The shift from the collecting of wild foods to dependence on cultivation was equally protracted. While rice was likely taken into cultivation in a number of areas across China it is only in the Lower Yangtze between 6000 to 3000...


Exploring Turkey Exploitation and Management in the Maya Lowlands (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Camilla Speller. Erin Thornton. Aurélie Manin. Kitty Emery.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North America and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As one of the few intensively managed species in Mesoamerica, the turkey plays a key role in understanding cultural interactions and subsistence, particularly in the Mayan lowlands. Two populations of turkeys were exploited in this region: the local, wild ocellated turkey...


Extinction As a Possible Factor in the Invention of New World Agriculture (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. J. Alford.

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Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark N. Cohen.

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From wild rice harvesting to domestic rice agriculture in South Asia. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Kingwell-Banham.

It is still unclear if India saw an independent domestication of rice, and so the origins of Oryza sativa indica, as distinct from the Chinese rice O. s. japonica, are shrouded in mystery. However, there is very early evidence dating to c.9000 BP of wild rice exploitation, and perhaps of crop management, from Northern India. Once rice becomes widely reported within the archaeobotanic record, there is long term evidence for low impact agrarian practices across the subcontinent, including shifting...


Get Them Young? Age and Sex Inferences On Animal Domestication in Archaeology (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Collier. J. Peter White.

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Identifying Specialized Agricultural Production in the Archaeological Record: a Response To Wells (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pam J. Crabtree.

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