Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder

Allowen Evin; Linus Girdland Flink; Ben Krause-Kyora; Cheryl Makarewicz; Soenke Hartz; Stefan Schreiber; Nicole von Wurmb-Schwark; Almut Nebel; Claus von Carnap-Bornheim; Greger Larson; Keith Dobney

doi:10.1080/00438243.2014.953711

Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder

Allowen Evin^*, Linus Girdland Flink, Ben Krause-Kyora, Cheryl Makarewicz, Soenke Hartz, Stefan Schreiber, Nicole von Wurmb-Schwark, Almut Nebel, Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, Greger Larson, Keith Dobney

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Abstract

In their critique of our paper (Krause-Kyora et al. 2013), Rowley-Conwy and Zeder focus on two primary issues. Firstly, they discuss issues associated with the terminology and definitions of animal domestication. Secondly, they question the techniques we employed to explore it. While we completely agree with their points related to terminology, we feel they have misunderstood both the principals and application of shape analyses using geometric morphometrics, and that this misunderstanding undermines their criticism. Having said that, and though our differences are easily overstated, our respective interpretations of the data presented in Krause-Kyora et al. (2013) overlap significantly.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	825-834
Number of pages	10
Journal	World Archaeology
Volume	46
Issue number	5
Early online date	31 Oct 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.953711
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

introgression
geometric morphometrics
Sus scrofa
domestication
pig domestication
animal domestication
ancient DNA
dispersal
genetics
shape
insights
Europe
clues

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