Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 1.

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A.¹ (AUTHOR) zederm@si.edu

Source: Journal of Archaeological Research. Mar2025, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p1-56. 56p.

Subject Terms: *AGRICULTURAL history, *LAND settlement patterns, *AGRICULTURE, *SCIENTIFIC method, *BACKWATER

Geographic Terms: MIDDLE East

A method for constructing demographic profiles of Capra aegagrus/C. hircus using logarithm size index scaling

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A.

Source: In Journal of Archaeological Science December 2024 172

Herded and hunted goat genomes from the dawn of domestication in the Zagros Mountains

Authors: Daly, Kevin G., Mattiangeli, Valeria, Hare, Andrew J., Decruyenaerec, Delphine, Richterf, Tobias, Mortensen, Peder, Pantos, Alexis, Yeomans, Lisa, Bangsgaard, Pernille, Zeder, Melinda A., Bradley, Daniel G.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Jun . 118(25), 1-9.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27041073

A Journey Begins with a Single Step: How Early Holocene Humans and Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Embarked on the Pathway to Domestication in the Eastern Fertile Crescent.

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A.¹ (AUTHOR) zederm@si.edu, Lemoine, Ximena^2,3 (AUTHOR)

Source: Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory. Sep2023, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p895-963. 69p.

Subject Terms: *WILD boar, *HOLOCENE Epoch, *HARVESTING, *FASTS & feasts, *HUMAN beings

Geographic Terms: TURKEY

Factors affecting molar size in Sus scrofa

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A., Lemoine, Ximena

Source: In Journal of Archaeological Science December 2020 124

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

Authors: Frantz, Laurent A. F., Haile, James, Lin, Audrey T., Scheu, Amelie, Geörg, Christina, Benecke, Norbert, Alexander, Michelle, Linderholm, Anna, Mullin, Victoria E., Daly, Kevin G., Battista, Vincent M., Price, Max, Gron, Kurt J., Alexandri, Panoraia, Arbogast, Rose-Marie, Arbuckle, Benjamin, Bălăşescu, Adrian, Barnett, Ross, Bartosiewicz, László, Baryshnikov, Gennady, Bonsall, Clive, Borić, Dušan, Boroneanţ, Adina, Bulatović, Jelena, Çakirlar, Canan, Carretero, José-Miguel, Chapman, John, Church, Mike, Crooijmans, Richard, De Cupere, Bea, Detry, Cleia, Dimitrijevic, Vesna, Dumitraşcu, Valentin, du Plessis, Louis, Edwards, Ceiridwen J., Erek, Cevdet Merih, Erim-Özdoğan, Aslı, Ervynck, Anton, Fulgione, Domenico, Gligor, Mihai, Götherström, Anders, Gourichon, Lionel, Groenen, Martien A.M., Helmer, Daniel, Hongo, Hitomi, Horwitz, Liora K., Irving-Pease, Evan K., Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Lesur, Joséphine, Malone, Caroline, Manaseryan, Ninna, Marciniak, Arkadiusz, Martlew, Holley, Mashkour, Marjan, Matthews, Roger, Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite, Maziar, Sepideh, Meijaard, Erik, McGovern, Tom, Megens, Hendrik-Jan, Miller, Rebecca, Fatemeh Mohaseb, Azadeh, Orschiedt, Jörg, Orton, David, Papathanasiou, Anastasia, Pearson, Mike Parker, Pinhasi, Ron, Radmanović, Darko, Ricaut, François-Xavier, Richards, Mike, Sabin, Richard, Sarti, Lucia, Schier, Wolfram, Sheikhi, Shiva, Stephan, Elisabeth, Stewart, John R., Stoddart, Simon, Tagliacozzo, Antonio, Tasić, Nenad, Trantalidou, Katerina, Tresset, Anne, Valdiosera, Cristina, van den Hurk, Youri, Van Poucke, Sophie, Vigne, Jean-Denis, Yanevich, Alexander, Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea, Triantafyllidis, Alexandros, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Schibler, Jörg, Rowley-Conwy, Peter, Zeder, Melinda, Peters, Joris, Cucchi, Thomas, Bradley, Daniel G., Dobney, Keith, Burger, Joachim, Evin, Allowen, Girdland-Flink, Linus, Larson, Greger

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Aug . 116(35), 17231-17238.

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A method for constructing demographic profiles in Susscrofa using Logarithm Size Index scaling

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A., Lemoine, Ximena

Source: In Journal of Archaeological Science April 2020 116

Did maize dispersal precede domestication?

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A.

Source: Science, 2018 Dec . 362(6420), 1246-1247.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26569361

The Initial Domestication of Goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A., Hesse, Brian

Source: Science, 2000 Mar . 287(5461), 2254-2257.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3074826

Straw Foxes: Domestication Syndrome Evaluation Comes Up Short

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A.

Source: Trends in ecology & evolution. 35(8):647-649

Availability: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCvdc_100116083484.0x000001&indx=1&recIds=ETOCvdc_100116083484.0x000001

New insights into broad spectrum communities of the Early Holocene Near East: The birds of Hallan Çemi

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A., Spitzer, Megan D.

Source: In Quaternary Science Reviews 1 November 2016 151:140-159

REPLY TO WESTAWAY AND LYMAN : Emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A., Denham, Tim, Erlandson, Jon M., Boivin, Nicole L., Crowther, Alison, Fuller, Dorian Q., Larson, Greger, Petraglia, Michael D.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016 Aug . 113(33), E4759-E4760.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26471437

REPLY TO ELLIS ET AL. : Human niche construction and evolutionary theory

Authors: Erlandson, Jon M., Zeder, Melinda A., Boivin, Nicole L., Crowther, Alison, Denham, Tim, Fuller, Dorian Q., Larson, Greger, Petraglia, Michael D.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016 Aug 01. 113(31), E4437-E4438.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26471059

Ecological consequences of human niche construction : Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

Authors: Boivin, Nicole L., Zeder, Melinda A., Fuller, Dorian Q., Crowther, Alison, Larson, Greger, Erlandson, Jon M., Denham, Tim, Petraglia, Michael D.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016 Jun 01. 113(23), 6388-6396.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26470201

Reply to Mohlenhoff et al. : Human behavioral ecology needs a rethink that niche-construction theory can provide

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 Jun . 112(24), E3094-E3094.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26463820

A new system for computing long-bone fusion age profiles in Sus scrofa

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A., Lemoine, Ximena, Payne, Sebastian

Source: In Journal of Archaeological Science March 2015 55:135-150

A new system for computing dentition-based age profiles in Sus scrofa

Authors: Lemoine, Ximena, Zeder, Melinda A., Bishop, Katelyn J., Rufolo, Scott J.

Source: In Journal of Archaeological Science July 2014 47:179-193

Impacts of biological globalization in the Mediterranean : Unveiling the deep history of human-mediated gamebird dispersal

Authors: Forcina, Giovanni, Guerrini, Monica, van Grouw, Hein, Gupta, Brij K., Panayides, Panicos, Hadjigerou, Pantelis, Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., Awan, Muhammad N., Khan, Aleem A., Zeder, Melinda A., Barbanera, Filippo

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 Mar . 112(11), 3296-3301.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26462036

Core questions in domestication research

Authors: Zeder, Melinda A.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 Mar . 112(11), 3191-3198.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26462018

Mesolithic domestic pigs at Rosenhof – or wild boar? A critical re-appraisal of ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics

Authors: Rowley-Conwy, Peter, Zeder, Melinda

Source: World Archaeology, 2014 Dec 01. 46(5), 813-824.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26160197