Questioning new answers regarding Holocene chicken domestication in China
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Previous claims for chickens in the Yellow River basin 11,000 to 8,000 y ago are not supported by climatic, palynological, or archaeofaunal records, which suggest environmental conditions were not conducive to thermophilic Gallus.
“Previous claims for the presence of chickens in the Yellow River basin 11,000 to 8,000 y ago (8) are not supported by either the climatic, palynological, or archaeofaunal records, all of which suggest the environmental conditions in the region were not conducive to the thermophilic Gallus (1, 31).”
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The main text (p. E2415) cites paleoclimatic conditions and faunal remains as reasons to doubt early chicken domestication on the North China plain, and says Cishan and Wangyin were unsuitable for thermophilic red jungle fowl. It does not discuss palynological records or establish the stated 11,000–8,000-year interval; it also leaves open the possibility that the earlier conclusions may be valid. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Previous claims for the presence of chickens in the Yellow River basin 11,000 to 8,000 y ago (8) are not supported by either the climatic, palynological, or archaeofaunal records, all of which suggest the environmental conditions in the region were not conducive to the thermophilic Gallus (1, 31).”
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- Authors
- Peters, J., Lebrasseur, O., Best, J., Miller, H., Fothergill, T., Dobney, K., Thomas, R. M., Maltby, M., Sykes, N., Hanotte, O., O’Connor, T., Collins, M. J., & Larson, G.
- Affiliations
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Bournemouth University (GB)
- Department of Archaeology and
- School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom;
- University of Aberdeen (GB)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- University of York (GB)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-04-17
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- E2415-E2415
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4434763
- OpenAlex
- W2041311368
- Cited by
- 49
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Nottingham ePrints (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/L006979/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Livestock and Poultry Management
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Keywords
- chicken domestication, Holocene, zooarchaeology, paleoethology
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animal Husbandry, Chickens, DNA, Mitochondrial, Biological Evolution
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