Documenting Domestication

New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms

By: Melinda A. Zeder (Editor), Daniel Bradley (Editor), Eve Emshwiller (Editor), Bruce D. Smith (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Agriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. In the last decade, significant technological and methodological advances in both molecular biology and archaeology have revolutionized the study of plant and animal domestication and are reshaping our understanding of the transition from foraging to farming, one of the major turning points in human history. This groundbreaking volume for the first time brings together leading archaeologists and biologists working on the domestication of both plants and animals to consider a wide variety of archaeological and genetic approaches to tracing the origin and dispersal of domesticates. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in this quickly changing field as well as reviews of recent findings on specific crop and livestock species in the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa. Offering a unique global perspective, it explores common challenges and potential avenues for future progress in documenting domestication.

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List of Contributors	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
Documenting Domestication: Bringing Together Plants, Animals, Archaeology, and Genetics	p. 1
Archaeological Documentation of Plant Domestication
Documenting Domesticated Plants in the Archaeological Record	p. 15
Seed Size Increase as a Marker of Domestication in Squash (Cucurbita pepo)	p. 25
A Morphological Approach to Documenting the Domestication of Chenopodium in the Andes	p. 32
Identifying Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and Other Crops in Pre-Columbian Tropical America through Starch Grain Analysis: A Case Study from Central Panama	p. 46
Phytolith Evidence for the Early Presence of Domesticated Banana (Musa) in Africa	p. 68
Documenting the Presence of Maize in Central and South America through Phytolith Analysis of Food Residues	p. 82
Genetic Documentation of Plant Domestication
Genetic Data and Plant Domestication	p. 99
DNA Sequence Data and Inferences on Cassava's Origin of Domestication	p. 123
Relationship between Chinese Chive (Allium tuberosum) and Its Putative Progenitor A. ramosum as Assessed by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD)	p. 134
Using Multiple Types of Molecular Markers to Understand Olive Phylogeography	p. 143
Origins of Polyploid Crops: The Example of the Octoploid Tuber Crop Oxalis tuberosa	p. 153
Archaeological Documentation of Animal Domestication
Archaeological Approaches to Documenting Animal Domestication	p. 171
A Critical Assessment of Markers of Initial Domestication in Goats (Capra hircus)	p. 181
The Domestication of the Pig (Sus scrofa): New Challenges and Approaches	p. 209
The Domestication of South American Camelids: A View from the South-Central Andes	p. 228
Early Horse Domestication on the Eurasian Steppe	p. 245
Genetic Documentation of Animal Domestication
Documenting Domestication: Reading Animal Genetic Texts	p. 273
Genetic Analysis of Dog Domestication	p. 279
Origins and Diffusion of Domestic Goats Inferred from DNA Markers: Example Analyses of mtDNA, Y Chromosome, and Microsatellites	p. 294
Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in Modern Sheep: Implications for Domestication	p. 306
Genetics and Origins of Domestic Cattle	p. 317
Genetic Analysis of the Origins of Domestic South American Camelids	p. 329
Genetic Documentation of Horse and Donkey Domestication	p. 342
Index	p. 355
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