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The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens

Though chickens are the most numerous and ubiquitous domestic bird, their origins, the circumstances of their initial association with people, and the routes along which they dispersed across the world remain controversial. In order to establish a robust spatial and temporal framework for their orig...

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Autores principales: Peters, Joris, Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Irving-Pease, Evan K., Paxinos, Ptolemaios Dimitrios, Best, Julia, Smallman, Riley, Callou, Cécile, Gardeisen, Armelle, Trixl, Simon, Frantz, Laurent, Sykes, Naomi, Fuller, Dorian Q., Larson, Greger
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9214543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35666876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121978119
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author Peters, Joris
Lebrasseur, Ophélie
Irving-Pease, Evan K.
Paxinos, Ptolemaios Dimitrios
Best, Julia
Smallman, Riley
Callou, Cécile
Gardeisen, Armelle
Trixl, Simon
Frantz, Laurent
Sykes, Naomi
Fuller, Dorian Q.
Larson, Greger
author_facet Peters, Joris
Lebrasseur, Ophélie
Irving-Pease, Evan K.
Paxinos, Ptolemaios Dimitrios
Best, Julia
Smallman, Riley
Callou, Cécile
Gardeisen, Armelle
Trixl, Simon
Frantz, Laurent
Sykes, Naomi
Fuller, Dorian Q.
Larson, Greger
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description Though chickens are the most numerous and ubiquitous domestic bird, their origins, the circumstances of their initial association with people, and the routes along which they dispersed across the world remain controversial. In order to establish a robust spatial and temporal framework for their origins and dispersal, we assessed archaeological occurrences and the domestic status of chickens from ∼600 sites in 89 countries by combining zoogeographic, morphological, osteometric, stratigraphic, contextual, iconographic, and textual data. Our results suggest that the first unambiguous domestic chicken bones are found at Neolithic Ban Non Wat in central Thailand dated to ∼1650 to 1250 BCE, and that chickens were not domesticated in the Indian Subcontinent. Chickens did not arrive in Central China, South Asia, or Mesopotamia until the late second millennium BCE, and in Ethiopia and Mediterranean Europe by ∼800 BCE. To investigate the circumstances of their initial domestication, we correlated the temporal spread of rice and millet cultivation with the first appearance of chickens within the range of red junglefowl species. Our results suggest that agricultural practices focused on the production and storage of cereal staples served to draw arboreal red junglefowl into the human niche. Thus, the arrival of rice agriculture may have first facilitated the initiation of the chicken domestication process, and then, following their integration within human communities, allowed for their dispersal across the globe.
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spelling pubmed-92145432022-06-23 The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens Peters, Joris Lebrasseur, Ophélie Irving-Pease, Evan K. Paxinos, Ptolemaios Dimitrios Best, Julia Smallman, Riley Callou, Cécile Gardeisen, Armelle Trixl, Simon Frantz, Laurent Sykes, Naomi Fuller, Dorian Q. Larson, Greger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Social Sciences Though chickens are the most numerous and ubiquitous domestic bird, their origins, the circumstances of their initial association with people, and the routes along which they dispersed across the world remain controversial. In order to establish a robust spatial and temporal framework for their origins and dispersal, we assessed archaeological occurrences and the domestic status of chickens from ∼600 sites in 89 countries by combining zoogeographic, morphological, osteometric, stratigraphic, contextual, iconographic, and textual data. Our results suggest that the first unambiguous domestic chicken bones are found at Neolithic Ban Non Wat in central Thailand dated to ∼1650 to 1250 BCE, and that chickens were not domesticated in the Indian Subcontinent. Chickens did not arrive in Central China, South Asia, or Mesopotamia until the late second millennium BCE, and in Ethiopia and Mediterranean Europe by ∼800 BCE. To investigate the circumstances of their initial domestication, we correlated the temporal spread of rice and millet cultivation with the first appearance of chickens within the range of red junglefowl species. Our results suggest that agricultural practices focused on the production and storage of cereal staples served to draw arboreal red junglefowl into the human niche. Thus, the arrival of rice agriculture may have first facilitated the initiation of the chicken domestication process, and then, following their integration within human communities, allowed for their dispersal across the globe. National Academy of Sciences 2022-06-06 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9214543/ /pubmed/35666876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121978119 Text en Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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Lebrasseur, Ophélie
Irving-Pease, Evan K.
Paxinos, Ptolemaios Dimitrios
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Smallman, Riley
Callou, Cécile
Gardeisen, Armelle
Trixl, Simon
Frantz, Laurent
Sykes, Naomi
Fuller, Dorian Q.
Larson, Greger
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9214543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35666876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121978119
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