2019
DOI: 10.31237/osf.io/xhfs9
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The origins and evolution of pig domestication in prehistoric Spain

Abstract: From the main four domesticates (cattle, sheep, goat, and pig), the pig has only recently attracted scientific interest worthy of its archaeological importance. Synthetic works studying wild or domestic pigs in European regions such as Italy, Sardinia/Corsica and Poland have provided important insights often missed by site-focused zooarchaeological reports. This thesis constitutes the first study focusing on pigs and their interactions with humans in Spain from pre-Neolithic times until the Iron Age. Crucial a… Show more

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“…This further implies that European domestic pigs did not originate from an independent domestication process, but rather from the continuous management of herds that were interbred (however intentionally) with local wild boar. In Mediterranean regions, including Sardinia (42), Corsica (42), Spain (43), Greece (44), and Roman Italy (45), swineherd management often allowed for pigs to seasonally range freely away from human settlements. Combined with other traditions such as pig transhumance (42), these practices likely offered the opportunity for reciprocal gene flow between wild boar and managed pigs, although, at least in some regions, a clear size difference persisted throughout.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This further implies that European domestic pigs did not originate from an independent domestication process, but rather from the continuous management of herds that were interbred (however intentionally) with local wild boar. In Mediterranean regions, including Sardinia (42), Corsica (42), Spain (43), Greece (44), and Roman Italy (45), swineherd management often allowed for pigs to seasonally range freely away from human settlements. Combined with other traditions such as pig transhumance (42), these practices likely offered the opportunity for reciprocal gene flow between wild boar and managed pigs, although, at least in some regions, a clear size difference persisted throughout.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To further demonstrate the effectiveness of the biometrical approach used in this PhD research, in this sub-section several comparable studies from Spain, Portugal, Scandinavia, and Britain are reviewed. However, the only works comparable in scale to the present research are those by Hadjikoumis (2010; for Spain and Viner for Britain (Viner, 2011;Viner-Daniels, 2014).…”
Section: Studies On Pig Domestication In Europesupporting
confidence: 44%
“…Thus, the current scenario suggests that the domestication of the pig in Italy has likely involved a mixture of introduced domestic animals and local domestication, but there are many more areas that need greater clarification and to which this project will contribute: ▪ Can the current hypothesis withstand scrutiny by the analysis of a larger sample, both in terms of actual data and geographic/chronological coverage? ▪ Unlike Spain, where a mixed scenario occurs (Hadjikoumis, 2010), in Italy it has not been possible so far to identify any example of an abrupt change in pig management between the Mesolithic and the Neolithic -can this further work identify such cases? ▪ Can the system of more intensive pig management suggested for the Late Neolithic be identified at other sites?…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Only the studies of Albarella et al (2005, 2009), Davis and Mataloto (2012) and Davis and Detry (2013) integrate data from Portugal in order to examine the dynamics in the changes in size of wild and domestic pigs over a long period of time. Hadjikoumis (2010) also carried out a full study of pig farming in the post-Neolithic period in his doctoral thesis. More precisely, Altuna and Mariezkurrena (2011) have published a summary for northern Iberia based on the biometric differentiation between Sus scrofa and Sus domesticus , from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%