Animals With Jobs (How Domestication Works) - Dirt 205

What this episode covers

Anna saddles up to lead Amber on a faunal adventure! We'll discuss the changes that happen when humans start influencing animal breeding. We'll also cover the origin stories of a few of the most prevalent domesticated species. But don't worry, we cover some examples of "non-typical" domestication too, plus a case of animal coworkers. We'll even tackle the question… have we humans domesticated OURSELVES?? Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info. [https://zen.ai/thearchaeologyshow] Links * Domesticated animals, explained (National Geographic) [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/domesticated-animals?loggedin=true] * Whence the Domestic Horse? (Science) [https://www.science.org/content/article/whence-domestic-horse] * Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas (PNAS) [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2010083118] * DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago (UCL) [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2012/mar/dna-traces-cattle-back-small-herd-domesticated-around-10500-years-ago#:~:text=DNA%20traces%20cattle%20back%20to%20a%20small%20herd%20domesticated%20around%2010%2C500%20years%20ago,-27%20March%202012&text=All%20cattle%20are%20descended%20from,to%20a%20new%20genetic%20study] * How Sheep Became Livestock (Science) [https://www.science.org/content/article/how-sheep-became-livestock] * Understanding the origins of European domestic pigs (Natural History Museum) [https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/august/understanding-the-origins-of-european-domestic-pigs.html#:~:text=Archaeological%20evidence%20suggests%20that%20domestic,farmers%20from%20the%20Near%20East] * The Domestication of Pigs: Sus Scrofa's Two Distinct Histories (ThoughtCo) [https://www.thoughtco.com/the-domestication-of-pigs-170665] * Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world (Science) [https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-egyptians-may-have-given-cats-personality-conquer-world] * Ancient DNA reveals the lost domestication history of South American camelids in Northern Chile and across the Andes (eLife) [https://elifesciences.org/articles/63390] * Early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China (PNAS) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267363/] * The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens (Nature Scientific Reports) [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59316-5] * Buried with Snails (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) [https://stri.si.edu/story/buried-snails] * Insects: The Disregarded Domestication Histories (Animal Domestication) [https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/64219] * On Horseback Among the Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai (New York Times) [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/travel/mongolia-eagle-hunters.html] Contact * Email the Dirt Podcast: [email protected] ArchPodNet * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/] * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet * APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet * Tee Public Store [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724] Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/]