Holocene cultural history of Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) and its domestic descendant in East Asia

被引:52
作者
Peters, Joris [1 ,2 ]
Lebrasseur, Ophelie [3 ]
Deng, Hui [4 ]
Larson, Greger [3 ]
机构
[1] Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Dept Vet Sci, Inst Palaeoanat Domesticat Res & Hist Vet Med, Kaulbachstr 37, D-80539 Munich, Germany
[2] SNSB, Bavarian State Collect Anthropol & Palaeoanat, Karolinenpl 2a, D-80333 Munich, Germany
[3] Palaeogen & Bioarchaeol Res Network, Res Lab Archaeol, Dyson Perrins Bldg,South Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QY, England
[4] Shanxi Univ, Dept Hist & Culture, 92 Wucheng Rd, Taiyuan, Shanxi, Peoples R China
基金
欧洲研究理事会; 英国艺术与人文研究理事会;
关键词
Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus); Domestic chicken; Holocene; East Asia; Palaeoclimate; Palaeozoogeography; Zooarchaeology; Ancient DNA analysis; Shang Dynasty; CHICKEN DOMESTICATION; CLIMATE CHANGES; POLYNESIAN CHICKENS; PIG DOMESTICATION; ET-AL; CHINA; DNA; ORIGINS; VEGETATION; LOESS;
D O I
10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.04.004
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Nearly three decades ago, zooarchaeologists postulated that chicken husbandry was practiced in Northern China by similar to 8.0 ka calBP. Recently, ancient mitogenome analyses of galliform remains suggested that Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) was already present in the Yellow River basin several millennia earlier, shortly after the onset of the Holocene. If these conclusions are correct, the origins of chicken domestication and husbandry in the region may have been spurred by agricultural innovations in the lower Yellow River basin including millet cultivation, pig husbandry, and dog breeding. In addition, the dispersal of poultry farming from East Asia to Asia Minor and Europe could therefore date to the Neolithic along ancient trade routes across Central Asia rather than via South Asia and Mesopotamia. For this scenario to be plausible, the post-Pleistocene climatic conditions must have been favourable to allow for a northward extension of the native distribution of tropical Red jungle fowl currently not found north of similar to 25 degrees N. This study combines Holocene palaeoclimate and archaeofaunal archives with new zooarchaeological insights alongside a discussion of methodological issues and cultural aspects in order to revisit the hypothesis of an early Holocene Gallus domestication and Neolithic poultry husbandry in Northern China. Our results regarding the natural and cultural history of Red jungle fowl and domestic chickens in East Asia, and the timing of chicken dispersal across the Old World suggest that an early Holocene domestication of chickens is problematic at best. We conclude by postulating an alternative model for the early exploitation of a key domestic species in present-day East Asia. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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页码:102 / 119
页数:18
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