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. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 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 -