Unravelling the complexity of domestication: A case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1660, 2015, Pages

  Evin, Allowen ^a,b   Flink, Linus Girdland ^a,c   Bălăşescu, Adrian ^d   Popovici, Dragomir ^d   Andreescu, Radian ^d   Bailey, Douglas ^e   Mirea, Pavel ^f   Lazăr, Cătălin ^d   Boroneanţ, Adina ^g   Bonsall, Clive ^h   Vidarsdottir, Una Strand ^c   Brehard, Stéphanie ^b   Tresset, Anne ^b   Cucchi, Thomas ^a,b   Larson, Greger ^c   Dobney, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d National History Museum of Romania   (Romania)

^e SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Teleorman County Museum ^*  (Romania)

^g ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Domestication; Morphometrics; Neolithization; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DOMESTICATION; MORPHOMETRY; NEOLITHIC; PIG; PREHISTORIC; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ANATOLIA; ROMANIA; TURKEY;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

DNA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOMETRICS; PALEONTOLOGY; PIG; PROCEDURES; ROMANIA; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DNA; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PALEONTOLOGY; ROMANIA; SUS SCROFA; TOOTH;

EID: 84916216992     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0616     Document Type: Article

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