TY  - JOUR
KW  - domestication
KW  -  chickens
KW  -  dispersal
KW  -  human niche
JF  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A1  - Peters, Joris
A1  - Lebrasseur, Ophélie
A1  - Irving-Pease, Evan K
A1  - Paxinos, Ptolemaios Dimitrios
A1  - Best, Julia
A1  - Smallman, Riley
A1  - Callou, Cécile
A1  - Gardeisen, Armelle
A1  - Trixl, Simon
A1  - Frantz, Laurent
A1  - Sykes, Naomi
A1  - Fuller, Dorian Q
A1  - Larson, Greger
N1  - © 2022 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.
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License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
VL  - 119
ID  - discovery10150429
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121978119
IS  - 24
N2  - SignificanceChickens are the world's most numerous domestic animal. In order to understand when, where, and how they first became associated with human societies, we critically assessed the domestic status of chicken remains described in >600 sites in 89 countries, and evaluated zoogeographic, morphological, osteometric, stratigraphic, contextual, iconographic, and textual data. Although previous studies have made claims for an early origin of chickens, our results suggest that unambiguous chickens were not present until ?1650 to 1250 BCE in central Thailand. A correlation between early chickens and the first appearance of rice and millet cultivation suggests that the production and storage of these cereals may have acted as a magnet, thus initiating the chicken domestication process.
AV  - public
TI  - The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens
Y1  - 2022/06/14/
ER  -