Browsing LMAMR Faculty Publications by Subject "Archaeology"

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    • The Earliest Farmers of Northwest China Exploited Grain-fed Pheasants not Chickens 

      Barton, Loukas; Bingham, Brittany; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Monroe, Cara; Thomas, Ariane; Kemp, Brian M. (2020-02-13)
      Though chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) are globally ubiquitous today, the timing, location, and manner of their domestication is contentious. Until recently, archaeologists placed the origin of the domestic chicken in ...