Dear Zooarchers,
I wanted to let you know about a new paper that was just posted on-line by PNAS.
Zeder, M.A. 2015. Core Questions in Domestication Research. doi/10.1073/pnas.1501711112
Abstract: The domestication of plants and animals is a key transition in human history, and its profound and continuing impacts are the focus of a broad range of transdisciplinary research spanning the physical, biological, and social sciences. Three central aspects of domestication that cut across and unify this diverse array of research perspectives are addressed here. Domestication is defined as a distinctive coevolutionary, mutualistic relationship between domesticator and domesticate and distinguished from related but ultimately different processes of resource management and agri- culture. The relative utility of genetic, phenotypic, plastic, and contextual markers of evolving domesticatory relationships is discussed. Causal factors are considered, and two leading explan- atory frameworks for initial domestication of plants and animals, one grounded in optimal foraging theory and the other in niche- construction theory, are compared.
I have a pdf posted on my Academia.edu and ResearchGate pages and would be happy to send you a copy if you don't have access to these sites.
It probably won't be as useful as the piggy papers but may be of some interest to some of you.
Mindy
Melinda A. Zeder
Senior Scientist, Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology
Curator, Old World Archaeology
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Mailing Address:
45 Gold Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87508
Phone: 703 626-9118
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