The first steps of animal domestication : new archaeozoological approaches

Preface (Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney and Peter Rowley-Conwy) New archaeological approaches to trace the first steps of animal domestication: General presentation, reflections and proposals (Jean-Denis Vigne, Daniel Helmer and Joris Peters) Principles and concepts. Experimental animal domestication and its application to the study of animal exploitation in prehistory (Benjamin S. Arbuckle) The domestication of the wolf - the inevitable first? (Werner Muller) Breaking the mould: A consideration of variation in the evolution of animal domestication (Ricahrd W. Redding) New techniques and their application. Assessing the origin and diffusion of domestic goats using ancient DNA (Helena Fernandez et al) Kernel smoothing and mixture analyses for the determination of the sex ratios at death, at the beginning of domestication of ungulates (Herve Monchot et al) Two novel methods for the study of dental morphological variation in Sus scrofa, in order to identify separate breeding groups within archaeological assemblages (Sylvia Warman) Animal domestication in West Asia. Pig exploitation at Hagoshrim: A prehistoric site in the southern Levant (Annat Haber et al) Identifying early domestic cattle from Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites on the middle Euphrates using sexual dimorphism (Daniel Helmer et al) The upper Euphrates-Tigris basin: Cradle of agro-pastoralism? (Joris Peters et al) A view from the Zagros: New perspectives on livestock domestication in the fertile crescent (Melinda A. Zeder) Animal domestication in East Asia. Wild pig? Or domesticated boar? An archaeological view on the domestication of Sus scrofa in Japan (Akira Matsui et al) Wild boar remains from the Neolithic (Jomon Period) sites on the Izu Islands and in Hokkaido Island, Japan (Yamazaki Kyomi et al).