Reevaluation of early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-31

  Eda, Masaki ^a   Lu, Peng ^b   Kikuchi, Hiroki ^c   Li, Zhipeng ^b   Li, Fan ^b,d   Yuan, Jing ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chicken; Domestication; Morphology; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; DOMESTICATION; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; POULTRY;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 84957900944     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.012     Document Type: Article

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