A5003447307- African history and culture analysis
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- African history and culture studies
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2017-2024
Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique
2014-2023
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2012-2023
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine
2021
Structure et Instabilité des Génomes
2020
Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains
2004-2019
Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle
2018
Sorbonne Université
2016
Éco-Anthropologie
2012
Goat domestication was critical for agriculture and civilization, but its underlying genetic changes selection regimes remain unclear. Here, we analyze the genomes of worldwide domestic goats, wild caprid species, historical remains, providing evidence an ancient introgression event from a West Caucasian tur-like species to ancestor goats. One introgressed locus with strong signature harbors MUC6 gene, which encodes gastrointestinally secreted mucin. Experiments revealed that nearly fixed...
Studies of early human settlement in alpine environments provide insights into physiological, genetic, and cultural adaptation potentials. Although Late even Middle Pleistocene presence has been recently documented on the Tibetan Plateau, little is known regarding nature context persistent high elevations. Here, we report earliest evidence a prehistoric high-altitude residential site. Located Africa's largest ecosystem, repeated occupation Fincha Habera rock shelter dated to 47 31 thousand...
The origins of herding practices in southern Africa remain controversial. first appearance domesticated caprines the subcontinent is thought to be c. 2000 years BP; however, origin this cultural development still widely debated. Recent genetic analyses support long-standing hypothesis herder migration from north, while other researchers have argued for a diffusion where spread took place without necessarily implicating simultaneous and large population movements. Here we document Later Stone...
KS043 is a stratified site associated with complex of artesian springs. The archaeological remains, as well series radiocarbon determinations, date the to between 4800 and 4200 b.c. Our study suggests connection Saharan pastoralists, forced move into oasis areas by increasing aridification, first Predynastic cultures Nile Valley. only dated settlement attributed Late Neolithic in eastern Sahara that characterized Tasian cultural traditions.
The advent of domestication is a major step that transformed the subsistence strategies past human societies. In Africa, domestic caprines (sheep and goat) were introduced in north-eastern part continent from Near East more than 9000 years ago. However, their diffusion southwards was slow. They are thought to have made first appearance southern ca. 2000 ago, at few Later Stone Age sites, including Leopard Cave (Erongo region, Namibia), which provided oldest directly dated remains assigned...
Abstract In the course of evolution, pecorans (i.e., higher ruminants) developed a remarkable diversity osseous cranial appendages, collectively referred to as “headgear,” which likely share same origin and genetic basis. However, nature function determinants underlying their number position remain elusive. Jacob other rare populations sheep goats are characterized by polyceraty, presence more than two horns. Here, we characterize distinct POLYCERATE alleles in each species, both associated...
AbstractAbstractThe rock shelter of Moche Borago in Wolayta Province, South-west Ethiopia, has provided evidence human occupation during part the Holocene. Recovery more than 30,000 animal bones allowed reconstruction exploitation animals by humans from 4th millennium BC until first half 1st AD. It could be demonstrated that exploited (mainly for food) a great diversity mammals, especially bovids, and there were very few diachronic changes observed fauna occupation. Remains domestic have not...
The site of Wakrita is a small Neolithic establishment located on wadi in the tectonic depression Gobaad Djibouti Horn Africa. 2005 excavations yielded abundant ceramics that enabled us to define one cultural facies this region, which was also identified at nearby Asa Koma. faunal remains confirm importance fishing settlements close Lake Abbé, but bovine husbandry and, for first time area, evidence caprine herding practices. Radiocarbon dating places occupation beginning 2nd millennium b.c.,...
We report the first large-scale palaeoproteomics research on eastern and southern African zooarchaeological samples, thereby refining our understanding of early caprine (sheep goat) pastoralism in Africa. Assessing introductions is a complicated task because their skeletal similarity to endemic wild bovid species sparse fragmentary state relevant archaeological remains. Palaeoproteomics has previously proved effective clarifying attributions materials, but few comparative protein sequences...
The dual model of foragers versus producers is increasingly perceived as inadequate for understanding the complexities subsistence practices in past and present. A wide spectrum in-between strategies, falling under label 'low-level food production' (Smith 2001), has been pointed out. Africa has, however, remained mostly outside this debate, despite offering many examples societies that combine hunting gathering with food-production, particularly ecological cultural borderlands. This paper...
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Direkli Cave, located in the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey, was occupied by Late Epipaleolithic hunters-gatherers for seasonal hunting and processing game including large numbers wild goats. We report genomic data from new published
Charcoal analyses were performed on hearths and ash layers from a seasonally occupied Neolithic dwelling site in the eastern lowlands of Horn Africa, dated to first half second millennium BC. It was suggested by an earlier study that predominance two taxa, Suaeda (seablite)/Chenopodiaceae Salvadora persica (saltbush), could be over-representation due selection wood for specialized use, i.e. fish processing. In this study, we show can ruled out, characteristics charcoal spectra explained...