Introduction involontaire de la souris domestique (Mus musculus domesticus) à Chypre dès le Néolithique précéramique ancien (fin IXe et VIIIe millénaires av. J.-C.)

New insights into pig taxonomy, domestication and human dispersal in Island South East Asia: molar shape analysis of Sus remains from Niah Caves, Sarawak

“…Morphoscopic differences between pig molars rely upon the relative position and development of the main and supernumerary cusps of the tooth. The outline of this two-dimensional projection can successfully record continuous variation in molars, as demonstrated by previous studies on rodents (Renaud, 1999;Cucchi et al, 2002Cucchi et al, , 2006Renaud & Michaux, 2004;Caumul & Polly, 2005;Renaud et al, 2006;Michaux et al, 2007) and suid teeth (Warman, 2005;Larson et al, 2007). A further advantage to this method applied to murid and suid molars is that for these taxa, the outline form does not vary greatly with occlusal attrition, thus providing a stable morphological signature that is largely independent of both the age of the individual and the age profile of the population (Renaud, 2005).…”

The Pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New Evidence for Taxonomic Status and Human-Mediated Dispersal

“…1). The outline of this two-dimensional projection can successfully register continuous variation on molariform teeth, as demonstrated by previous studies of murine (Cucchi et al 2002(Cucchi et al , 2006Renaud and Michaux 2004;Renaud et al 2006) and suid teeth (Larson et al 2007;Cucchi et al Forthcoming). In suid molars, the outline form importantly does not vary greatly with occlusal attrition, thus providing a morphological signature that is largely independent of both the age of the individual and the age profile of the population (Renaud 2005).…”

“…This first zooarchaeological application of molar shape analysis has demonstrated that the method is powerful enough to segregate both species and subspecies, as well as revealing a clear phylogeographic component to morphological variation (Cucchi 2005;Cucchi et al 2002).…”

Evolving ecosystems: ecological data from an Iron Age small mammal accumulation at Alorda Park (Catalonia, Spain)

“…Based on the relative proportion between Apodemus and Mus in the identified mandibles 2 The morphology of the zygomatic plate is known to be much less accurate than the morphometric analyses of the first lower molar contour (Cucchi et al, 2002). For this reason, we have conducted a morphometric analysis, the results of which will be presented in a future article.…”