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A Journey Begins with a Single Step: How Early Holocene Humans and Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Embarked on the Pathway to Domestication in the Eastern Fertile Crescent
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ( IF 3.073 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 , DOI: 10.1007/s10816-022-09576-4
Melinda A. Zeder , Ximena Lemoine

Analysis of a large assemblage of Sus scrofa remains from Hallan Çemi, an Early Holocene (c. 11,700 BP) site in southeastern Turkey, provides new insights into pre-domestication patterns of human harvesting and management of this important species. Harvest profiles resulting from a range of documented hunting and herding strategies, when combined with new methods for demographic profiling, reveal emergent mutualisms between humans and wild boar that set the stage for active management. As local wild boar populations began taking advantage of increasingly anthropogenically altered environments around Hallan Çemi, humans developed procurement strategies that both increased harvest yields and helped sustain population levels of S. scrofa. The evolution of these strategies into more active management at later sites in the region is also traced. New methods for detecting morphological change in S. scrofa over the c. 300 year occupation of Hallan Çemi show that lower molars underwent size change. Metric data from 18 contemporary and later sites reveals the differential impacts of emergent domestication on different S. scrofa skeletal elements over a 4000-year period. Taxonomic and part distributional data highlight the increasing importance of S. scrofa in feasting activities at Hallan Çemi over time. We conclude that feasting and other community-enhancing activities at Hallan Çemi worked together with increasing engagement in niche modification to promote the level of cohesion and material support needed to sustain a sedentary community over the longue durée and to create the sustained interactions needed for domestication.



中文翻译:

旅程从一步开始:全新世早期人类和野猪 (Sus scrofa) 如何在东部新月沃地踏上驯化之路

对土耳其东南部全新世早期(约 11,700 年前)遗址哈兰切米(Hallan Çemi)的大量野猪残骸进行分析,为人类收获和管理这一重要物种的驯化前模式提供了新的见解。一系列记录在案的狩猎和放牧策略产生的收获概况与新的人口统计分析方法相结合,揭示了人类与野猪之间新兴的共生关系,为积极管理奠定了基础。随着当地野猪种群开始利用 Hallan Çemi 周围越来越多的人为改变的环境,人类制定了采购策略,既提高了收成又有助于维持S. scrofa的种群水平. 还追踪了这些策略演变为该地区后期站点更积极管理的过程。检测S. scrofa在 c.形态变化的新方法。对Hallan Çemi 300 年的占领表明,下臼齿发生了大小变化。来自 18 个当代和后来地点的度量数据揭示了 4000 年期间新兴驯化对不同S. scrofa骨骼元素的不同影响。分类学和部分分布数据突出了S. scrofa日益增加的重要性随着时间的推移,在 Hallan Çemi 的宴会活动中。我们得出结论,Hallan Çemi 的宴会和其他社区增强活动与增加对生态位改造的参与一起工作,以提高维持久坐不动的社区所需的凝聚力和物质支持水平,并创造驯化所需的持续互动。

更新日期:2022-09-15
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