A Metrical Analysis of a Collection of Modern Goats (Capra hircus aegargus and C. h. hircus) from Iran and Iraq: Implications for the Study of Caprine Domestication

Zeder, Melinda A.

doi:10.1006/jasc.1999.0555

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“…The Hallan Çemi age profile is not consistent with either a village-based herd management or an urban provisioning system. The initial emphasis on younger animals detected here might, as suggested by Redding andRosenberg (1998, 2000), point to an intermediate exploitation strategy between a managed herd with an emphasis on young animals and the emphasis on prime age adults predicted with the hunting of wild animals (Stiner, 1990;Zeder, 2001). However, it might also reflect a hunting strategy that targets different components of a wild herd at different seasons of the year.…”

Section: Intersite Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 55%

A new system for computing dentition-based age profiles in Sus scrofa

Lemoine

Zeder

Bishop

et al. 2014

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Intersite Differentiationmentioning

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A new system for computing dentition-based age profiles in Sus scrofa

Lemoine

Zeder

Bishop

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…The utility of body size reduction, once considered an essentially instantaneous product of domestication (55), has also been called into question. Apparent decreases in ovi-caprid body size at about 10,000 y ago are now known to be the result of demographic shifts in the archaeological assemblages of managed animals (dominated by smaller females) compared with assemblages composed of hunted animals (dominated by large prime-age males) (56).…”

Section: Impacts and Markersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Increases in the abundance of an animal species in the archaeological record may result from efforts that promote population growth (i.e., burning), or through the construction of structures that facilitate capture (i.e., fish weirs or kites) (69,71). Efforts at enhancing access to economically important animals also find expression in harvest strategies designed to increase prey availability that may lead to active management of animal populations and domestication (54,56).…”

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Core questions in domestication research

Zeder

2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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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 spanning the physical, biological, and social sciences. Three central aspects of domestication that cut across and unify this diverse array of research perspectives are addressed here. Domestication is defined as a distinctive coevolutionary, mutualistic relationship between domesticator and domesticate and distinguished from related but ultimately different processes of resource management and agriculture. The relative utility of genetic, phenotypic, plastic, and contextual markers of evolving domesticatory relationships is discussed. Causal factors are considered, and two leading explanatory frameworks for initial domestication of plants and animals, one grounded in optimal foraging theory and the other in nicheconstruction theory, are compared.T he domestication of plants and animals marks a major evolutionary transition in human history-one with profound and lasting global impacts. The origins of domestication-when and where, how, and why our ancestors targeted plant and animal species for domestication-is an enduring and increasingly active area of scientific inquiry for researchers from many different disciplines. Enhancing present-day productivity of longstanding and recently domesticated species and exploring social and biological issues surrounding their role in feeding rapidly expanding global populations are topics of pressing concern. The volume and breadth of domestication research is underscored by a keyword search on the term "domestication" for the year 2013 which yielded a total of 811 papers in more than 350 different journals (Table S1), including 42 articles published in PNAS (Table S2).Given the large and growing number of studies on domestication across a wide array of disciplines, it is worthwhile to address three central questions. (i) Is there a definition of domestication applicable to both plants and animals from the distant past to present day that distinguishes domestication from related processes of resource management and agriculture? (ii) How does domestication change both the domesticate and domesticator, and how can we track these changes through time? (iii) Why did humans domesticate plants and animals, and are there common causal factors that underlie the process of domestication wherever it takes place?Defining Domestication and Distinguishing Domestication from Management and Agriculture There is a surprising lack of consensus on how to define domestication. Beyond agreeing that it involves a relationship between a domesticator and a domesticate, there is little agreement on what this relationship entails or how and when it results in the creation of a domesticated plant or animal. Domestication is frequently defined from the perspective of the domesticator, emphasizing the role of humans in separating a target domesticate from free-living populations and assuming mastery over all aspects of its lif...

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“…However the goats are 10 cm higher than archaeological Iron Age goats and in the same data range with modern breed "Anatolian Black Goat". It is known that gender and breeding regions are importantly effective on the size of goats [13] .…”

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“…Information about visual morphology was obtained by using evaluation of metapodia specially [10,11] . For the enlightenment of history of domestication of sheep [10][11][12] and goats [10,13] , metapodia were often used to determining morphological changes in this duration. In the studies, estimated shoulder heights were calculated by using evaluations of metapodia which obtained in archaeological excavations and classification of species was tried to be identified by comparing with archaeological data and actual breeds.…”

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Istanbul Yenikapı Metro ve Marmaray Kazılarında Ortaya Çıkan Koyun ve Keçi Metapodial Kemiklerinin Osteometrik İncelenmesi

Pazvant

Onar²,

Alpak

et al. 2015

Kafkas Univ Vet Fak Derg

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In this study, the metapodial bones of sheep and goats which were found out at Yenikapı Metro and Marmaray archaeological excavations in İstanbul were used. The variability of characteristic features of mentioned metapodia (CV values) were examined and calculations of shoulder heights were made with using metapodial evaluations. The results which were reached were compared with the data of modern and archaeological sheep and goats which belong to previous studies about this topic. Hereat, it is observed that the shoulder heights of Byzantine sheep are in same data range with Iron Age sheep and are in same size with one of the modern breeds Tuj sheep. It is confirmed that the shoulder heights of the Byzantine goats are higher than Iron Age goats and are in same size with one of the modern breeds Anatolian Black Goats. Keywords: Metapodial bones, Yenikapı Metro and Marmaray, Sheep, Goat Istanbul Yenikapı Metro ve Marmaray Kazılarında Ortaya Çıkan Koyun ve Keçi Metapodial Kemiklerinin Osteometrik İncelenmesiÖzet Çalışmada, İstanbul Yenikapı Metro ve Marmaray bölgesi arkeolojik kazılarında ortaya çıkarılan koyun ve keçi metapodium'ları kullanıldı. Söz konusu metapodium'ların ana özelliklerinin değişkenlikleri (CV değerleri) incelendi ve metapodial ölçümler kullanılarak omuz yüksekliği hesaplamaları yapıldı. Elde edilen sonuçların bu konu üzerinde yapılmış çalışmalardaki modern ve arkeolojik koyun-keçi verileri ile karşılaştırılması yapıldı. Bunun sonucunda; Bizans dönemi koyunların omuz yüksekliğinin, Demirçağ koyunları ile aynı veri aralığında, modern ırklardan ise Tuj ırkı koyunlarının ebatında olduğu gözlendi. Bizans dönemi keçilerin omuz yüksekliği, Demirçağ keçilerinden daha yüksek, modern ırklardan ise Anadolu Kıl keçisi ebatlarında olduğu tespit edildi.

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A Metrical Analysis of a Collection of Modern Goats (Capra hircus aegargus and C. h. hircus) from Iran and Iraq: Implications for the Study of Caprine Domestication

Cited by 124 publications

References 15 publications

A new system for computing dentition-based age profiles in Sus scrofa

A new system for computing dentition-based age profiles in Sus scrofa

Core questions in domestication research

Istanbul Yenikapı Metro ve Marmaray Kazılarında Ortaya Çıkan Koyun ve Keçi Metapodial Kemiklerinin Osteometrik İncelenmesi

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