Analyzing the process of domestication: Hagoshrim as a case study

Haber, Annat; Dayan, Tamar

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2004.04.001

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“…At Hagoshrim, also in Israel, late PPN and early Pottery Neolithic layers produced large wild boar. The later Pottery Neolithic, however, showed a marked drop in size, identified as the result of domestication, accompanied by an increase in the killing of younger animals (Haber and Dayan 2004;Haber et al 2005). The clearest evidence for domestication during the PPN comes from Ç ayönü Tepesi in southeastern Turkey (Fig.…”

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Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results

2012

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New methods permit archaeologists to distinguish between wild boar and domestic pigs with greater confidence than has been hitherto possible. Metrical methods are the most commonly used; these are reviewed. Assemblages containing a wider range of measurements (as measured by the coefficient of variation [V]) than is found in one population suggest that two populations of different-sized pigs were present, probably indicating separate wild and domestic populations with little or no interbreeding. These assemblages, sometimes taken to indicate animals 'intermediate' between wild and domestic, are clear evidence of full domestication. Other traditional means of diagnosing domestication based on age at death (the killing of many young animals) and biogeography (the export of the animal beyond its natural range, especially to islands) are particularly problematic when applied to pigs. New methods include the frequency of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia, which may increase due to domestication-induced stress, the study of diet through isotopes and dental microwear, and the examination of population histories through ancient and modern DNA and geometric morphometrics. These are all promising but should not be considered in isolation: many problems remain.

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Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results

2012

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“…Cattle constitute between 3.8% and 7.1% of the PPNC assemblages at the eastern (Jordanian) sites of 'Ain Ghazal (NISP = 4989) and Wadi Shu'eib (NISP = 902) (Köhler- Simmons et al, 2001;von den Driesch and Wodtke, 1997). In contrast, cattle proportions range between 33% and 46% of NISP at the western (Israeli) sites of Hagoshrim (NISP = 1660), Ashkelon (NISP = 5665), and Atlit Yam (NISP = 322) (Galili et al, 1993;Garfinkel et al, 2005;Haber and Dayan, 2004).…”

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Transformations in an early agricultural society: Feasting in the southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Twiss

2008

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…Cattle management was practiced in the Damascus basin at Tell Aswad in the eighth millennium BC (Helmer and Gourichon, 2008), but domestic cattle appear quite late in the rest of the southern Levant. Although the remains of aurochs are abundant in some early Neolithic sites, especially along the Mediterranean coastal plain and in the Jordan Valley, small sized domestic cattle are not evident in the southern Levant until the late seventh and early sixth millennium cal BC (Becker, 2002;Haber and Dayan, 2004;Horwitz and Ducos, 2005;Marom and Bar-Oz, 2013).…”

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Documenting the initial appearance of domestic cattle in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (northern Iraq and western Iran)

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Hongo

et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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a b s t r a c tIn this paper we address the timing of and mechanisms for the appearance of domestic cattle in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (EFC) region of SW Asia through the analysis of new and previously published species abundance and biometric data from 86 archaeofaunal assemblages. We find that Bos exploitation was a minor component of animal economies in the EFC in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene but increased dramatically in the sixth millennium BC. Moreover, biometric data indicate that small-sized Bos, likely representing domesticates, appear suddenly in the region without any transitional forms in the early to mid sixth millennium BC. This suggests that domestic cattle were imported into the EFC, possibly associated with the spread of the Halaf archaeological culture, several millennia after they first appear in the neighboring northern Levant.

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Analyzing the process of domestication: Hagoshrim as a case study

Cited by 37 publications

References 34 publications

Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results

Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results

Transformations in an early agricultural society: Feasting in the southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Documenting the initial appearance of domestic cattle in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (northern Iraq and western Iran)

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