Animals With Jobs (How Domestication Works) - Ep 205

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??

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• Domesticated animals, explained (National Geographic)

• Whence the Domestic Horse? (Science)

• Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas (PNAS)

• DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago (UCL)

• How Sheep Became Livestock (Science)

• Understanding the origins of European domestic pigs (Natural History Museum)

• The Domestication of Pigs: Sus Scrofa's Two Distinct Histories (ThoughtCo)

• Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world (Science)

• Ancient DNA reveals the lost domestication history of South American camelids in Northern Chile and across the Andes (eLife)

• Early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China (PNAS)

• The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens (Nature Scientific Reports)

• Buried with Snails (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)

• Insects: The Disregarded Domestication Histories (Animal Domestication)

• On Horseback Among the Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai (New York Times)

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Aiding and A-vetting: The Archaeology of Animal Care - Ep71

This week Anna and Amber told you we’re going to the park, but really it’s a trip to the v-e-t in an episode all about evidence for animal care and veterinary medicine in the archaeological record. Learn how archaeologists assess animal welfare from bone analysis, ancient Egyptian animal medicine, a snapshot of life on a medieval French farm, and more, including 2nd millennium BCE pro tips on how to get your horse absolutely jacked.

Links

• Prehistoric Puppy May Be Earliest Evidence of Pet-Human Bonding (National Geographic)

• Excavating the history of ancient veterinary practices (Veterinary Record)

• The Kikkuli Text. Hittite Training Instructions for Chariot Horses in the Second Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C. and Their Interdisciplinary Context (Peter Raulwing, via Academia.edu)

• Kikkuli (International Museum of the Horse)

• A Quick History of Veterinary History (Canidae)

• Care or Neglect?: Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology

• One and the same? An investigation into the connection between veterinary and medical practice in ancient Egypt (in Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient Egypt)

• Lahun Veterinary Papyrus

• Early Egyptians Revered Lowly Donkeys (New York Times)

Lahun Veterinary Papyrus

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