A5064427735- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Latin American history and culture
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
- Ottoman and Turkish Studies
- dental development and anomalies
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
University of Oxford
2020-2024
Oxford Archaeology
2020-2024
University of York
2018-2021
Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique
2015-2018
Dogs were present in the Americas before arrival of European colonists, but origin and fate these precontact dogs are largely unknown. We sequenced 71 mitochondrial 7 nuclear genomes from ancient North American Siberian time frames spanning ~9000 years. Our analysis indicates that not derived wolves. Instead, form a monophyletic lineage likely originated Siberia dispersed into alongside people. After Europeans, native almost completely disappeared, leaving minimal genetic legacy modern dog...
Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of 'domestication' as term and 19th century cultural project. We explore potential process archaeology deep-time investigation relationships, drawing attention to variable pace an ongoing within across taxa; nature 'syndromes' 'pathways' general hypotheses about process; importance cooperation well competition among humans other...
The earliest cats in human settlements China were not domestic (Felis catus), but native leopard (Prionailurus bengalensis). To trace when and how arrived East Asia, we analyzed 22 feline bones from 14 sites across spanning 5,000 years. Nuclear mitochondrial genomes revealed that began occupying anthropogenic scenes around 5,400 years ago last appeared 150 CE. Following several centuries' gap of archeological remains, the first known cat (706 to 883 CE) was identified Shaanxi during Tang...
Abstract Domestication is an intriguing evolutionary process. Many domestic populations are subjected to strong human‐mediated selection, and when some individuals return the wild, they again selective forces associated with new environments. Generally, these feral evolve into something different from their wild predecessors members typically possess a combination of both human selected traits. Feralisation can manifest in forms on spectrum phenotype. This depends how rewilded domesticated...
The turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) represents one of the few domestic animals New World. While current research points to distinct domestication centres in Southwest USA and Mesoamerica, several questions regarding number progenitor populations, timing intensity husbandry remain unanswered. This study applied ancient mitochondrial DNA stable isotope δ 13 C, 15 N) analysis 55 archaeological remains from Mexico investigate pre-contact exploitation Mesoamerica. Three different (sub)species...
Zooarchaeology of Northern Mesoamerica has often been restricted to major archaeological sites and few regional syntheses are documented. Based on the original analysis animal bone remains from ten assemblages their confrontation with iconographic, historic ethnographic data, this paper aims propose a synthesis use animals in central Mexico, Classic period Spanish Conquest. We selected similar environment but two cultural regions: Central Mexico Western Mexico. The methodology used compare...
Abstract In the US Southwest and Northwest Mexico, people turkeys ( Meleagris gallopavo ) have had a reciprocal relationship for millennia; supplied feathers, meat, other resources, whereas provided food, shelter, care. To investigate how fit within subsistence, economic production, sociopolitical organization, religious ritual practice in Mimbres Valley of southwestern New we report on genetic (mtDNA) stable isotope (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) data from recovered Classic period (AD 1000–1130) sites....
People living in Mesoamerica and what is now the eastern southwestern United States used turkeys ( Meleagris gallopavo ) as sources of meat, eggs, bones, feathers. Turkey husbandry domestication are confirmed two these regions (Mesoamerica American Southwest), but human-turkey interactions Eastern North (eastern Canada) not fully explored. We apply stable isotope (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses to archaeofaunal samples from seven sites southeastern test whether were...
Long considered on the margins, far from major cultural traditions, Sechura Desert is situated at crossroads between cultures of southern Ecuador and those northern Peruvian coast preserves a large number varied archaeological sites. Despite this evidence, little known about societies that inhabited region during Holocene. Exposed to natural hazards, including El Niño events, climatic changes, they were able adapt exploit scarce resources extreme environment offered them. Because rich...
The last decade has seen important technological and methodological advances in the field of palaeogenomics, constantly pushing back time boundary broadening our understanding past human-animal interactions. As well as development sequencing technologies, a variety organic material is being (re)evaluated potential substrates for DNA analyses. authors here review selection these, including collagenous (leather parchment), keratinous (hair feather) calcified (shell eggshell) material,...