Earliest evidence for commensal processes of cat domestication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 116-120

  Hu, Yaowu ^a,b   Hu, Songmei ^c   Wang, Weilin ^c   Wu, Xiaohong ^d   Marshall, Fiona B ^e   Chen, Xianglong ^a,b   Hou, Liangliang ^a,b,f   Wang, Changsui ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Archaeological Research Institute of Shaanxi Province   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Felid; Mutualism; Quanhucun site; Stable isotopes; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CAT; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD ANIMAL;

FELID; MUTUALISM; QUANHUCUN SITE; STABLE ISOTOPES; ZOOARCHAEOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARCHAEOLOGY; CATS; CHINA; COLLAGEN; DEER; DOGS; FISHES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PANICUM; PETS; RABBITS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SWINE;

EID: 84891955588     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311439110     Document Type: Article

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