At the origins of animal domestication

Foreword

 

Domestication and archaeology

Domestic, tamed, commensal

A very specific ecological and cultural interaction

A clear definition of domestication, without neglecting itsmany facets

The domestication process and archaeology: making bonesspeak

A brief history

Some observations and general questions

 

The dog, the first domesticated animal

The origin of the dog: a great scientific adventure

New discoveries in the 1980s-1990s

Genetics enters the debate

The 21st century reshuffles the cards

Ever older?

Paleogenomic insights into the origins of domestication

Domestication genes

The paths and causes of domestication

 

The cat, companion by nature

Cats all look alike

Great hunters, shaped by biological evolution

Egyptian bestiary

Cyprus, nearly four thousand years before Egypt

Cypriot history reveals the reasons for domestication

New evidences from China?

Conquering the world!

Cat domestication: a consequence of the birth of agriculture

 

First Neolithic wave

Forget (almost) everything we know about the Neolithicperiod

Animal domestication, Neolithic transition, ungulates

From wild boar to pig, always (almost) unwittingly

Other areas of pig domestication

Domestication and non-domestication of ruminants: what dothey tell us?

The elusive origins of goats and sheep

The first sheep in Anatolia

Multiple origins of goat domestication

From aurochs to cows

A cradle on wheels!

The spread of domesticated cattle: a strange story

What can we learn from the first domestications of farmanimals?

 

Multiplication and diversification of domestication

The “second Neolithic”, before the birth of empires

The donkey, top of the class

The domestication of the horse, in two stages...

... or rather, in three!

Camels and dromedaries

The golden chicken in the rice fields

In America, camelids once again take pride of place

More than one domestication for llamas too

Between “first” and “second” Neolithic: break or continuity?

 

Biocultural coevolution

Modern observations and experiments

Too good to be true!

No “butterfly effect"

Back to bioarchaeological observations

Tracking biological change

Rich research prospects

First Neolithic acclimatizations and breedings

Changing lambing seasons

Change of cosmogony...

... Or integration of new actors into mythologies?

Technical innovations in connection with domestication

New skills, new professions

Dietary changes

Appearance of milk and dairy products

The birth of dairy farming and the biological evolution ofhumans

Changes with no way back?

 

A vision for the future of animal domestication?

Revisiting our vision of domestication

Could domestication be avoided?

How to look at prehistoric processes?

Between dominance and empathy

Companionship and the animal cause

An ethic based on scientific knowledge

 

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