The Beasts at Large – Perennial Questions and New Paradigms for Caribbean Translocation Research. Part I: Ethnozoogeography of Mammals

Giovas, Christina M.

doi:10.1080/14614103.2017.1315208

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“…Although similarities in pottery style and raptoral bird iconography are noted between sites on Puerto Rico, Vieques, and in northwestern South America, including the eastern foothills of the Andes 49,50 , the geographic specificity of links between the Caribbean Antilles and South American Andes have remained largely speculative (e.g. 51 ). Thus, this study significantly extends our knowledge of the Late Ceramic Age Caribbean-South American interaction spheres.…”

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Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

Lord

Collins

deFrance

et al. 2020

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Guinea pigs (Cavia spp.) have a long association with humans. From as early as 10,000 years ago they were a wild food source. Later, domesticated Cavia porcellus were dispersed well beyond their native range through pre-Columbian exchange networks and, more recently, widely across the globe. Here we present 46 complete mitogenomes of archaeological guinea pigs from sites in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, the Caribbean, Belgium and the United States to elucidate their evolutionary history, origins and paths of dispersal. our results indicate an independent centre of domestication of Cavia in the eastern colombian Highlands. We identify a peruvian origin for the initial introduction of domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) beyond South America into the caribbean. We also demonstrate that peru was the probable source of the earliest known guinea pigs transported, as part of the exotic pet trade, to both Europe and the southeastern United States. Finally, we identify a modern reintroduction of guinea pigs to Puerto Rico, where local inhabitants use them for food. This research demonstrates that the natural and cultural history of guinea pigs is more complex than previously known and has implications for other studies regarding regional to global-scale studies of mammal domestication, translocation, and distribution. The use of ancient DNA (aDNA) in studies of animal domestication and subsequent translocation has radically improved our ability to identify spatially, temporally, and culturally variable processes of domestication and the diversity of social networks behind domestic species distribution (e.g. 1,2). Increasingly, aDNA studies are revising previous assumptions of geographically conscripted animal domestication and dispersal events to reveal multiple centers, timings, and processes of domestication of the world's most prominent domestic animals (e.g. pigs, chickens, cattle, dogs 3-6). Because domestic animals are exemplar proxies for investigating past human migration and interaction, understanding long-term, diachronic patterns of when and where species domestication and

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Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

Lord

Collins

deFrance

et al. 2020

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“…It is important to note that the archaeological record shows substantial variation across Indigenous communities over space and time, which our analyses were not able to address due to the current resolution of the zooarchaeological record, such as differences in human-environment interactions among early arriving Lithic/Archaic groups. Deepening our understanding of translocations and, in particular, understanding multiple introductions or demographic trends of relevance to ecological hypotheses, requires increased resolution in the radiocarbon record and a combination of multiple lines of evidence, including ancient DNA, collagen sequencing, isotopes and dental calculus from the archaeological and palaeontological records [70]. While we have focused on terrestrial vertebrates, the abundance of shell middens throughout the Caribbean presents a clear opportunity to provide context for ongoing marine species invasions.…”

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7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota

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The human-mediated movement of species across biogeographic boundaries—whether intentional or accidental—is dramatically reshaping the modern world. Yet humans have been reshaping ecosystems and translocating species for millennia, and acknowledging the deeper roots of these phenomena is important for contextualizing present-day biodiversity loss, ecosystem functioning and management needs. Here, we present the first database of terrestrial vertebrate species introductions spanning the entire anthropogenic history of a system: the Caribbean. We employ this approximately 7000-year dataset to assess the roles of historical contingency and priority effects in shaping present-day community structure and conservation outcomes, finding that serial human colonization events contributed to habitat modifications and species extinctions that shaped the trajectories of subsequent species introductions by other human groups. We contextualized spatial and temporal patterns of species introductions within cultural practices and population histories of Indigenous, colonial and modern human societies, and show that the taxonomic and biogeographic diversity of introduced species reflects diversifying reasons for species introductions through time. Recognition of the complex social and economic structures across the 7000-year human history of the Caribbean provides the necessary context for interpreting the formation of an Anthropocene biota.

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“…It is important to note that the archaeological record shows substantial variation across Indigenous communities over space and time, which our analyses were not able to address due to the current resolution of the zooarchaeological record, such as differences in human-environment interactions among early arriving Lithic/Archaic groups. Deepening our understanding of translocations and in particular, understanding multiple introductions or demographic trends of relevance to ecological hypotheses, requires increased resolution in the radiocarbon record and a combination of multiple lines of evidence, including ancient DNA, collagen sequencing, isotopes, and dental calculus from the archaeological and paleontological records [64]. While we have focused on terrestrial vertebrates, the abundance of shell middens throughout the Caribbean present a clear opportunity to provide context for ongoing marine species invasions.…”

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confidence: 99%

7,000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean’s Anthropocene biota

Kemp

Mychajliw

Wadman

et al. 2020

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17The human-mediated movement of species across biogeographic boundaries-whether 18 intentional or accidental-is dramatically reshaping the modern world. Yet, humans have been 19 reshaping ecosystems and translocating species for millennia, and acknowledging the deeper 20 roots of these phenomena is important for contextualizing present-day biodiversity loss, 21 ecosystem functioning, and management needs. Here, we present the first database of terrestrial 22 vertebrate species introductions spanning the entire anthropogenic history of a system: the 23 Caribbean. We employ this ~7,000 year dataset to assess the roles of historical contingency and 24 priority effects in shaping present-day community structure and conservation outcomes, finding 25 that serial human colonization events contributed to habitat modifications and species extinctions 26 that shaped the trajectories of subsequent species introductions by other human groups. We 27 contextualized spatial and temporal patterns of species introductions within cultural practices and 28 population histories of Indigenous, colonial, and modern human societies, and show that the 29 taxonomic and biogeographic diversity of introduced species reflects diversifying reasons for 30 species introductions through time. Recognition of the complex social and economic structures 31 across the 7,000-year human history of the Caribbean provides the necessary context for 32 interpreting the formation of an Anthropocene biota. 33 34 Caribbean archaeology 36 37 38 39 A wide range of disciplines continue to debate the origin and defining characteristics of 40 the Anthropocene [1]. Yet, an undeniable signal of global human impact is the formation of 41 novel ecosystems and non-analogue assemblages, which have been created by the intentional and 42 accidental movement of species outside their native ranges in the context of land use change and 43 selective extinctions [2]. Human-mediated species translocations have fundamentally changed 44 the planet's biogeographic assembly rules by eroding the barriers separating islands, continents, 45 and hemispheres [3]. This reshaping of species ranges is not unique to present day human 46 societies: today's introduced species are part of a much longer legacy, with the earliest 47 documented translocation occurring approximately 20,000 years ago [4]. Since this Late 48 Pleistocene beginning, the advent of agricultural domestication and advancement of maritime 49 technology vastly increased the number of translocations and the geographic distance of the 50 translocation in the Holocene [5], and subsequently, colonial trade, industrial shipping, and the 51 wide-ranging effects of globalization have generated the Anthropocene biota that define our 52 modern landscapes [6]. 53 The ecological and economic impacts of such translocated species today are intensively 54 studied in management contexts, but whether and how the long-term (millennial-scale) sequence 55 of human-mediated species introductions have hindered or promoted subsequent introd...

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The Beasts at Large – Perennial Questions and New Paradigms for Caribbean Translocation Research. Part I: Ethnozoogeography of Mammals

Cited by 36 publications

References 78 publications

Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota

7,000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean’s Anthropocene biota

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