ACBS 160D1 Lecture 31: ACBS 31
19 Oct 2016
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Wild boar - 3. 5 mya in southeast asian. Unlike goats or sheep, they can"t live just anywhere (need water and shade. Introduced later into other regions because they lack sweat glands) 8,000-6,000 bp fully domesticated (archaeological evidence of change) Began relationship with humans as opportunistic scavengers feeding on human refuse in the initial year-round settlements in the more forested part of the central fertile crescent. Bones show they hunted wild goats, sheep and pigs, male bias in slaughter of pigs and goats, sheep, young pigs slaughtered predominantly. Indicator of pig domestication is a reduction in molar length (like with dogs), reduced snout - caused by neotenization of skull morphology. Early changes in skull morthpolhu may be the results of an extended getting to know you self-selection phase of commensal pathway into domestication. Earliest definitive evidence of pig domestication, 2000 year record. Genetic evidence point to multiple independent domesticating. First subsistence change from hunting-gathering was to horticulture (stone implements)
