[...]... integrating the different insights gained from the full range of archaeological and genetic approaches to documenting domestication in plants and animals The individual chapters in this book provide new paradigms for documenting domestication in plants and animals The approaches they describe will certainly yield new breakthroughs in the study of domestication in the years to come But perhaps the greatest... population genetics to archaeological data—in effect “anchoring genetic data to the archaeological narrative,” as Bradley puts it—seems one of the more promising areas for cross-illumination of molecular and archaeological approaches archaeology and biology in the study of plant and animal domestication Thousands of years of selective breeding, hybridization, and introgression between wild and domestic... emerging paradigms for documenting domestication and point the way for future work in this quickly expanding research frontier More than simply producing a “how-to” manual for documenting domestication, we hoped that by bringing these different approaches together, by featuring plants, animals, archaeology, and genetics in a single volume, we would be able to point the way to a deeper understanding of domestication. .. plant and animal domesticates, but also an understanding of the cultural context of the human partners in the process And this is where genetics and archaeology come together to provide a richly detailed understanding of domestication This volume highlights several promising areas for the intersection of archaeology and genetics (see also Zeder et al 2006) Identification of Wild Progenitors of Plant and. .. gathering to herding and farming The origin of plant and animal domestication has remained among the “big questions” of archaeological inquiry ever since Advances in molecular and archaeobiological techniques over the past two decades have resulted in a virtual explosion of studies exploring the origins of plant and animal domestication New genetic techniques have allowed plant and animal geneticists to... from archaeological and genetic perspectives provided an overview of the accomplishments in their area of study and the challenges and opportunities for future research: Bruce Smith spoke about the archaeology of plant domestication; John Doebley about the genetics of plant domestication; Melinda Zeder, the archaeology of animal domestication; and Dan Bradley, the genetics of animal domestication Following... Allaby, and T A Brown 2003 DNA from primitive maize landraces and archaeological remains: Implications for the domestication of maize and its expansion into South America Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 901–908 Gaut, B S 1998 Molecular clocks and nucleotide substitution rates in higher plants In Evolutionary Biology, Volume 30, M K Hecht, R J Macintyre, and M T Clegg (eds.), pp 93–120 New York and. .. O M E S T I C AT I O N TA B L E 1 1 The Four-Celled Matrix for This Volume Archaeology Plants Archaeological Documentation of Plant Domestication Genetics Genetic Documentation of Plant Domestication Animals Archaeological Genetic Documentation of Documentation of Animal Domestication Animal Domestication and animal species involving human groups around the world ultimately requires being able to draw... DNA sequence and fragment analysis As Emshwiller points out in her overview chapter, it is very important to avoid applying analytical techniques without understanding what these techniques do and how the data they yield relate to the process of domestication Contributions of Archaeology and Genetics to Documenting Domestication It is critical that the genetic analysis of this history of domestication. .. chloroplast) to document the domestication and diffusion of cassava (manioc), the Chinese chive, olives, and oca Melinda Zeder’s section, on archaeological approaches to the study of animal domestication, features case studies that use various combinations of morphological and nonmorphological markers to document domestication in sheep and goats, pigs, South American camelids, and horses Probably because . www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2006 by The Regents of the University of California Library of. Volume Archaeology Genetics Plants Archaeological Genetic Documentation of Documentation of Plant Domestication Plant Domestication Animals Archaeological Genetic Documentation of Documentation of Animal Domestication. archaeology of plant domestication; John Doebley about the genetics of plant domestication; Melinda Zeder, the archaeology of animal domestication; and Dan Bradley, the genetics of animal domestication.