A Review of the Evidence for Domestication of Myotragus balearicus Bate 1909 (Artiodactyla, Caprinae) in the Balearic Islands

Ramis, Damià; Bover, Pere Rosselló

doi:10.1006/jasc.2000.0548

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“…5,000 B.P.. A case was even mounted for domestication of this species before its extinction (90), which, if true, made Myotragus the only domestic animal to undergo extinction. Recent reevaluation of the primary arguments for Myotragus domestication has, however, overturned this hypothesis (89,91). A reexamination of the dates for earliest human occupation of these islands and the most recent evidence for Myotragus, moreover, has all but eliminated any overlap between humans and Myotragus (89).…”

Section: Cyprus/ Phanourios Minutusmentioning

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Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Zeder

2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The past decade has witnessed a quantum leap in our understanding of the origins, diffusion, and impact of early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin. In large measure these advances are attributable to new methods for documenting domestication in plants and animals. The initial steps toward plant and animal domestication in the Eastern Mediterranean can now be pushed back to the 12th millennium cal B.P. Evidence for herd management and crop cultivation appears at least 1,000 years earlier than the morphological changes traditionally used to document domestication. Different species seem to have been domesticated in different parts of the Fertile Crescent, with genetic analyses detecting multiple domestic lineages for each species. Recent evidence suggests that the expansion of domesticates and agricultural economies across the Mediterranean was accomplished by several waves of seafaring colonists who established coastal farming enclaves around the Mediterranean Basin. This process also involved the adoption of domesticates and domestic technologies by indigenous populations and the local domestication of some endemic species. Human environmental impacts are seen in the complete replacement of endemic island faunas by imported mainland fauna and in today's anthropogenic, but threatened, Mediterranean landscapes where sustainable agricultural practices have helped maintain high biodiversity since the Neolithic.archaeology ͉ livestock

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Section: Cyprus/ Phanourios Minutusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Zeder

2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

897

612

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“…On the Balearic Islands, the Messinian‐Event relict Myotragus balearicus survived thanks to absence of human colonization until the Early Holocene. It has been proposed it was possibly domesticated or at least managed, until the Bronze or Iron ages, but this hypothesis has been recently rejected for lack of empirical evidence (Ramis & Bover, 2001).…”

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Ancient introductions of mammals in the Mediterranean Basin and their implications for conservation

Gippoliti

Amori

2006

Mammal Review

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1. The importance of taxonomy to the determination of conservation priorities and actions is widely accepted. It should be not surprising therefore that the taxonomic treatment of mammal species that have been subject to human actions in antiquity may well influence the contemporary assessment of conservation priorities at various levels. 2.As a result of early extinctions caused by humans and protohistoric and historic introductions, we suggest that the Mediterranean Basin and its islands are particularly prone to misdirection of efforts towards biodiversity conservation. 3. The two main risks associated with the failure to use an evolutionary and palaeoecological approach to conservation efforts are (i) an underestimation of the conservation importance of distinctive continental taxa vs. the apparent endemicity of island taxa; and (ii) a serious risk for native and endemic island species when anthropochorous mammals, especially ungulates, misguidedly become the focus of conservation actions, particularly inside protected areas. 4. Urgent measures, including refinement of mammal taxonomy, the exclusion of known anthropochorous taxa from conservation lists and implementation of protective legislation, are necessary to maintain the uniqueness and richness of the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot.

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“…The ability of herbivores to alter bones is now recognized, and has been identified in archaeological sites as biological modification (Justus and Turner, 1990;Kierdorf, 1993Kierdorf, , 1994Ramis and Bover, 2001;Guerrero, 2001). However, herbivore action on bones and antlers continues to be related exclusively to forked morphologies.…”

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Was it the deer or the fox?

Cáceres

Esteban-Nadal

Bennàsar

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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A Review of the Evidence for Domestication of Myotragus balearicus Bate 1909 (Artiodactyla, Caprinae) in the Balearic Islands

Cited by 42 publications

References 13 publications

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Ancient introductions of mammals in the Mediterranean Basin and their implications for conservation

Was it the deer or the fox?

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