Ancient Genomics Is Archaeobiology

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeo- or paleoethnobiology is the study of how humans interact with their environment; the most extreme and intimate expression of this relationship is domestication. Domesticates are not only a biological organism, with their own unique evolutionary trajectories that they bring into domestication, but they are also a cultural artifact, their genomes shaped by millennia of human values and practices. Genomic analysis, incorporating ancient samples, allows us to infer past networks of trade and exchange, human movements and the cultural values and practices of the people who shaped modern agriculture.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams

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Abstract Id(s): 39236.0