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2001
- April 26, 2001: A Near-East
center of domestication for European cattle, Bos taurus:
see more in:
- Nature, issue of April 26, 2001 :
- Abstract
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- April 27, 2001: Identification of the
oldest city in the Americas
:the Holy
City
of Caral in Peru
: 2,600 BC
- Science, issue of April 27, 2001 :
- National Public Radio,
April 27, 2001
- Plants grown by the
Caral civilization: (illustrations are not the actualarchaeological
remains!)
- May 8, 2001: Domestication pattern of
goats, distinct from that of cattle
-
Proceedings National
Academy of Sciences,
issue of May 8, 2001:
- Abstract
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- commentaries:
- An earlier paper on
the domestication of goats in the Fertile Crescent:
- The Initial Domestication
of Goats (Capra hircus) in the ZagrosMountains 10,000 Years
Ago Melinda A. Zeder and Brian Hesse Science 2000 March 24; 287:
2254-2257.
- May 13, 2001: Lost city of
Annau,
Turkmenistan (in
Central Asia)
- May 18, 2001: Ancient agriculture in
lowland Mesoamerica (presumed
oldest domesticated maize remains)
- Science, issue of May 18, 2001 :
- May 18, 2001: Solar influence on drought
frequency in the Maya lowlands and their effects on discontinuities
in Maya cultural evolution
- Science, issue of May 18, 2001 :
- June 7, 2001: Genotyping the potato late
blight pathogen from the Irish image using historical samples
- Nature, issue of June 7, 2001 :
- June 19, 2001: A review
of 30 years of research on the "broad spectrum revolution"
- PNAS, issue of June 19, 2001 :
2002
- March, 2002: An examination of
the potential for domestication in the small Felidae (cat family)
- Biological Journal
of the Linnaean Society, March 2002 issue:
- April 22, 2002: Incan mummies
from Puruchuco, Peru
- April 30, 2002: Microsatellite
analysis confirms single domestication of maize in the Balsas basin of
Mexico
- PNAS, issue of April 30, 2002:
- July 17, 2002: Cacao usage by the
earliest Maya civilization.
- August 6, 2002: Phytolith morphology
in squash species is under genetic control
- PNAS , issue of August 6, 2002:
- August 2002: 40% of genes controlling
fruits characteristics in eggplant, tomato, pepper, and potato may be similar
in spite of independent domestications
- Genetics 161: 1697-1711, 2002
2003
- February 14, 2003: 12,000-10,000 year old domesticated squash
from southwestern Ecuador
- Science. issue of Febr. 14: 299, 1054-1057
- April 25, 2003: Can the geographic distribution of human language
families be related to the main dispersal pathways of humans from the centers
of origin of agriculture?
- Science, issue of April 25: 300: 597-603
- June 2003: A case for human biological domestication based on the
effects of the built environment, decreased mobility, and changes in diet
consistency associated with increasing sedentism
- Current Anthropology, issue of June 2003: 44: 349-368
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