The application of ancient DNA analysis to identify Neolithic caprinae: A case study from the site of Hatoula, Israel

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 120-131

  Kahila Bar Gal, Gila ^a   Ducos, Pierre ^b   Horwitz, Liora Kolska ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Capra; Domestication; Ovis; Southern Levant

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844366668     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oa.666     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Arai K, Munechika I, Ito I, Kikkawa A, Nakamura K, Kanazawa T, Kosugiyama M. 1997. Phylogenetic relationship of Caprini estimated by cytochrome b gene sequence analysis. Animal Society Technology 68: 148.
2. Austin JJ, Smith AB, Thomas RH. 1997. Palaeontology in a molecular world: the search for authentic ancient DNA. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: 303-306.
3. Benecke N. 1994. Der Mensch und seine Haustiere. Stuttgart: Theiss.
4. Boom R, Sol CJA, Salimans MMM, Jansen CL, Wertheim-van Dillen PME, van der Noordaa J. 1990. Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids. Journal of Clinical Microevolution 28: 495-503.
5. Clutton-Brock J. 1999. A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals. Natural History Museum: London.
6. Clutton-Brock J, Uerpmann H-P. 1974. The sheep of early Jericho. Journal of Archaeological Science 1: 261-274.
7. Davis SJ. 1985. A preliminary report of the fauna from Hatoula: a Natufian-Khiamian (PPNA) site near Latroun, Israel. In Le Site Natoufien-Khiamien de Hatoula, pres de Latroun, Israel. Fouilles 1980-1982 rapport preliminaire, Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). Les Cahiers de Recherche du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 1, Association Paleorient: Paris; 71-118.
8. Davis SJ. 1994. The hartebeest bones from Hatoula revisited. In Le Site de Hatoula en Judee Occidentale, Israel, Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). Memoires et Travaux du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 8, Association Paleorient: Paris; 129-131.
9. Davis SJ, Goring-Morris N, Gopher A. 1982. Sheep bones from the Negev Epipaleolithic. Paleorient 8: 87-93.
10. Davis SJ, Lernau O, Pichon J. 1994. The animal remains: new light on the origins of animal husbandry. In Le Site de Hatoula en Judee Occidentale, Israel, Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). Memoires et Travaux du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 8, Association Paleorient: Paris; 83-100.
11. Felsenstein J. 1985. Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39: 783-791.
12. Garrard A, Colledge SM, Martin L. 1996. The emergence of crop cultivation and caprine herding in the Marginal Zone of the southern Levant. In The Origin and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, Harris DR (ed). UCL Press; London: 204-226.
13. Gautier A. 1990. La Domestication : et l Homme Crea ses Animaux. Editions Errance: Paris.
14. Hassanin A, Pasquet E, Vigne J-D. 1998. Molecular systematics of the subfamily Caprinae (artiodactyla, Bovidae) as determined from cytochrome b sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 5: 217-239.
15. Henry DO, Turnbull PF, Emery-Barbier A, Leroi-Gourhan A. 1985. Archaeological and faunal evidence from Natufian and Timnian sites in southern Jordan. Bulletin of the American Scbool of Oriental Research 25: 745-764.
16. Herrmann B, Hummel S (eds). 1994. Ancient DNA. Springer-Verlag: New York.
17. Hiendleder S, Mainz K, Plante Y, Lewalski H. 1998. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA indicates that domestic sheep are derived from two different ancestral maternal sources: No evidence for contributions from Urial and Argali sheep. Journal of Heredity 89: 113-120.
18. Hiendleder S, Kaupe B, Wassmuth R, Janke A. 2002. Molecular analysis of wild and domestic sheep questions current nomenclature and provides evidence for domestication from two different subspecies. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 269: 893-904.
19. Hillis DM, Bull JJ. 1993. An empirical test of bootstrapping as method for assessing confidence in phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 42: 182-192.
20. Hillis DM, Moritz C, Mable BK. 1996. Molecular Systematics. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland.
21. Horwitz LK, Ducos P. 1998. An investigation into the origins of domestic sheep in the southern Levant. In Archaeozoology of the Near East Vol. III, Buitenhuis H, Bartosiewicz L, Choyke AM (eds). ARC-Publication 18: Groningen; 80-95.
22. Horwitz LK, Tchernov E, Ducos P, Becker C, von den Driesch A, Martin L, Garrard A. 1999. Animal domestication in the southern Levant. Paleorient 25: 63-80.
23. Höss M, Pääbo S. 1993. DNA Extraction from Pleistocene bones by Silica-Based purification method. Nucleic Acids Research 21: 3913-3914.
24. Höss M, Jaruga P, Zastawny TH, Dizdaroglu M, Pääbo S. 1996. DNA damage and DNA sequence retrieval from ancient tissues. Nucleic Acids Research 24: 1304-1307.
25. Irwin DM, Kocher TD, Wilson AC. 1991. Evolution of the cytochrome b gene of mammals. Journal of Molecular Evolution 32: 128-144.
26. Kahila Bar-Gal G, Khalaily H, Marder O, Ducos P, Horwitz LK. 2002a. Ancient DNA evidence for the transition from wild to domestic status in Neolithic goats: A case study from the site of Abu Gosh, Israel. Ancient Biomolecules 4: 9-17.
27. Kahila Bar-Gal G, Smith P, Tchernov E, Greenblatt C, Ducos P, Gardeisen A, Horwitz LK. 2002b. Genetic evidence for the origin of the agrimi goat (Capra aegagrus cretica). Journal of Zoology, London 256: 369-377.
28. Kumar SS, Subramanin V, Walimbe SR, Singh L. 1999. Current trends in 'ancient DNA studies' - A review. Current Science 76: 879-885.
29. Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). 1985. Le Site Natoufien-Khiamien de Hatoula, pres de Latroun, Israel. Fouilles 1980-1982 rapport preliminaire. Les Cahiers de Recherche du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 1, Association Paleorient: Paris.
30. Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). 1994. Le Site de Hatoula en Judee Occidentale, Israel. Memoires et Travaux du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 8, Association Paleorient: Paris.
31. Legge A. 1996. The beginning of caprine domestication in southwest Asia. In The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia Harris DR (ed). UCL Press: London; 238-262.
32. Lernau H. 1985. Fish remains from Hatoula. In Le Site Natoufien-Khiamien de Hatoula, pres de Latroun, Israel. Fouilles 1980-1982 rapport preliminaire, Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). Les Cahiers de Recherche du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 1, Association Paleorient: Paris; 102.
33. Lernau H, Lernau O. 1994. The fish remains. In Le Site de Hatoula en Judee Occidentale, Israel, Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). Memoires Jerusalem No. 8, Association Paleorient: Paris; 111-124.
34. Lindahl T. 1993a. Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA. Nature 62: 709-715.
35. Lindahl T. 1993b. Recovery of antediluvian DNA. Nature 365: 700.
36. Loreille O, Hardy C, Callou C, Treinen-Claustre F, Dennebouy N, Monnerot M. 1997. First distinction of sheep and goat archaeological bones by the means of their fossil mtDNA. Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 33-37.
37. Luikart G, Gielly L, Excoffier L, Vigne J-D, Bouvet J, Taberlet P. 2001. Multiple maternal origins and weak phylogeographic structure in domestic goats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A. 98: 5927-5932.
38. Nadler CF, Korobitsina KV, Hoffmann RS, Vorontsov NN. 1973. Cytogenetic differentatiom, geographic distribution, and domestication in Palearctic sheep (Ovis). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 38: 109-125.
39. Newman ME, Parboosingh JS, Bridge PJ, Ceri H. 2002. Identification of archaeological animal bone by PCR/DNA analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 29: 77-84.
40. Pääbo S. 1989. Ancient DNA: extraction, characterization, molecular cloning and enzmatic amplification. Proceeding of the National Academy Society USA 86: 1939-1943.
41. Peters J, Helmer D, von den Driesch A, Sana Segui M. 1999. Early animal husbandry in the northern Levant. Paleorient 25: 27-48.
42. Pichon J. 1985. Etude preliminaire de 1 avifaune de Hatoula. In Le Site Natoufien-Khiamien de Hatoula, pres de Latroun, Israel. Fouilles 1980-1982 rapport preliminaire, Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). Les Cahiers de Recherche du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 1, Association Paleorient: Paris; 99-101.
43. Pichon J. 1994. L'avifaune. In Le Site de Hatoula en Judee Occidentale, Israel, Lechevallier M, Ronen A (eds). Memoires et Travaux du Centre de Recherche Francais de Jerusalem No. 8, Association Paleorient: Paris; 101-110.
44. Redding R. 1981. Decision Making in Subsistence Herding of Sheep and Goats in tbe Middle East. PhD thesis. University of Michigan Microfilms International: Ann Arbor.
45. Saiki RD, Geelfand DH, Stoffel S, Scharf SJ, Higuchi R, Horn GT, Mullis KB, Erlich HA. 1988. Primer-directed enzymatic amplification of DNA with thermostable polymerase. Science 239: 487-491.
46. Swofford DL. 1993. PAUP: Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony Version 3.1.1. Illinois Natural History Survey: Champaign Illinois.
47. Takada T, Kikkawa Y, Yonekawa H, Kawakami S, Amano T. 1997. Bezoar (Capra aegagrus) is a matriarchal candidate for ancestor of domestic goat (Capra bircus): evidence from the mitochondrial diversity. Biochemical Genetics 35: 315-326.
48. Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson TJ. 1994. CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighing, position-specific gap penalties and weigh matrix choice. Nucleic Acid Research 22: 4673-4680.
49. Uerpmann H-P. 1987. The Ancient Distribution of Ungulate Mammals in the Middle East. Beihefte zum Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe A, 27. Dr. Ludwig Reichert: Wiesbaden.
50. Wasse A. 2001. The wild goats of Lebanon: Evidence for early domestication? Levant 33: 21-33.
51. Yang H. 1997. Ancient DNA from Pleistocene fossils: Preservation, recovery and utility of ancient genetic information for Quaternary research. Quaternary Science Reviews 16: 1145-1161.
52. Zeder Ma, Hesse B. 2000. The Initial domestication of goats (Capra bircus) in the Zagros mountains 10 000 years ago. Science 287: 2254-2257.
53. Zohary D, Tchernov E, Horwitz LK. 1998. The role of unconscious selection in the domestication of sheep and goats. Journal of Zoology, London 245: 129-135.