Renfrew, C. (1967). The domestication and exploitation of plants and animals. Antiquity 42. Vol 42, pp. 297-299.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
The domestication and exploitation of plants and animals | ||||
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Antiquity 42 | ||||
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Antiquity | ||||
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42 | ||||
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297 - 299 | ||||
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Papers given at a major international seminar held in London in May 1968 emphasised botanical and zoological aspects of domestication and showed the need to reassess concepts of "Neolithic origins". Some important discussion points are summarised. Whereas cereals and maize underwent marked - and archaeologically detectable - changes on domestication, for animals the definition and detection of "domestication" is more difficult. For instance, animals bred in captivity are not necessarily domesticated. Moreover, age-distributional evidence for systematic slaughter can relate to "wild" as well as to "domestic" herds; and recent work on the domestication of wild rats showed the impossibility of making skeletal distinctions. Early trans-oceanic dispersal of food plants such as yam and sorghum is increasingly attested from Africa and SE Asia, but again the wild and domestic kinds are difficult to distinguish archaeologically. General problems of why domestication took place when it did remain insoluble until archaeologists can, by means of planned subsistence studies, find the necessary correlations between early domestication and artefacts. | ||||
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1967 | ||||
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05 Dec 2008 |
