At 2:36 PM -0500 12/17/08, Zeder, Melinda wrote:
Ok Zooarchers - You've been so helpful on
the topic of draught/draft cattle. Here's another question.
Can anyone give me some references to publications that address the
topic of domestication of
1. guinea pigs
I hope people working in the Andes will have better information;
my impression is that the timing of guinea pig domestication remains
murky. Here are a couple of articles on other aspects:
Spotorno, Angel E.,
J. C. Marín, G. Manríquez, J. P. Valladares, E. Rico, and C.
Rivas
2006 Ancient and modern
steps during the domestication of guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus
L.). Journal of Zoology 270(1):57-62.
Rosenfeld, Silvana A.
2008
Delicious guinea pigs: Seasonality studies and the use of fat
in the pre-Columbian Andean diet. Quaternary International
180(1):127-134.
There are some fascinating articles on guinea pig sacrifice,
though, and two whole books on their symbolic roles in the
contemporary Andes.
2. yaks
All I know of for yaks are these:
Olsen, Stanley
J.
1990 Fossil ancestry of the yak, its
cultural significance and domestication in Tibet. Proceedings of
the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 142:73-100.
Guo, Songchang, Peter Savolainen, Jianping Su, Qian Zhang, Delin Qi,
Jie Zhou, Yang Zhong, Xinquan Zhao, and Jianquan Liu
2006 Origin of
mitochondrial DNA diversity of domestic yaks. BMC Evolutionary
Biology 6:73.
All the best,
Rissa
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