The pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: new evidence for taxonomic status and human-mediated dispersal.(Report)

From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

THE PROCESSES through which the economic and cultural elements regarded as "Neolithic" spread throughout Eurasia remain among the least understood and most hotly debated topics in archaeology. Domesticated animals and plants are integral components of the chrono-cultural and paleoenvironmental data set linked to the earliest farming communities, and their remains are key to understanding the origins and spread of agriculture. Although the majority of research into animal domestication and Neolithic dispersal has focused upon western Eurasia, the Near East, and Europe, where both ...

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