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DOI	10.1038/s41598-020-59316-5
	The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens
	Barton, Loukas; Bingham, Brittany; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Monroe, Cara; Thomas, Ariane; Kemp, Brian M.
通讯作者	Barton, L
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
出版年	2020
卷号	10 期号:1
英文摘要	Though chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) are globally ubiquitous today, the timing, location, and manner of their domestication is contentious. Until recently, archaeologists placed the origin of the domestic chicken in northern China, perhaps as early as 8,000 years ago. Such evidence however complicates our understanding of how the chicken was domesticated because its wild progenitor - the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) - lives in tropical ecosystems and does not exist in northern China today or in the recent past. Increasingly, multiple lines of evidence suggest that many of the archaeological bird remains underlying this northern origins hypothesis have been misidentified. Here we analyze the mitochondrial DNA of some of the earliest purported chickens from the Dadiwan site in northern China and conclude that they are pheasants (Phasianus colchicus). Curiously, stable isotope values from the same birds reveal that their diet was heavy in agricultural products (namely millet), meaning that they lived adjacent to or among some of the earliest farming communities in East Asia. We suggest that the exploitation of these baited birds was an important adaptation for early farmers in China's arid north, and that management practices like these likely played a role in the domestication of animals including the chicken - in similar contexts throughout the region.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000562888500032
WOS关键词	DOMESTICATION ; AGRICULTURE ; TRANSITION ; ORIGINS
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325833
作者单位	[Barton, Loukas] DUDEK, Cultural Resources Div, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 USA; [Bingham, Brittany; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Monroe, Cara; Kemp, Brian M.] Univ Oklahoma, Labs Mol Anthropol & Microbiome Res, Norman, OK 73019 USA; [Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan] Univ Oklahoma, Dept Microbiol & Plant Biol, Norman, OK 73019 USA; [Monroe, Cara; Kemp, Brian M.] Univ Oklahoma, Dept Anthropol, Norman, OK 73019 USA; [Thomas, Ariane] Univ Iowa, Dept Anthropol, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Barton, Loukas,Bingham, Brittany,Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan,et al. The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens[J],2020,10(1).
APA	Barton, Loukas,Bingham, Brittany,Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan,Monroe, Cara,Thomas, Ariane,&Kemp, Brian M..(2020).The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,10(1).
MLA	Barton, Loukas,et al."The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10.1(2020).