Evidence for Pre-Columbian animal domestication in the New World

dc.contributor.author	Johnson, D.L.
dc.contributor.author	Swartz, B.K.
dc.date.accessioned	2008-12-09T19:13:34Z
dc.date.available	2008-12-09T19:13:34Z
dc.date.issued	1990
dc.identifier.citation	Johnson, D.L. and Swartz, B.K. (1990). Evidence for Pre-Columbian animal domestication in the New World. -- Lambda Alpha Journal, v.21, p.42-54.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0047-3928
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1824
dc.description.abstract	The criteria traditionally used to determine animal domestication were proposed by Galton (1865:134,136) and are: (1) economic usefulness to man; (2) the ability to breed freely under confinement; and (3) the ease by which they are tended (tameness). Of these, captive breeding is crucial and will be used in this study, although usefulness is also i~portant. Tameness is not vital to domestication and may be impossible to prove, as in the case of apiculture, where the animals cannot be safely handled. Here we will discuss seven animals domesticated in the New World before European discovery. The dog, "llama", guinea pig, turkey, Muscovy duck, stingless bee, and the cochineal insect comprise the list of known PreColumbian, New World animal domesticates. We will present and evaluate the evidence, both archaeological and documentary, for domestication of these seven animals, including bone morphology; associated paraphernalia of domestication, such as stone corrals, sacrificial burials, pottery, figurines; and the writtings of European conquerors, explorers, naturalists, missionaries, ethnographers, and the native peoples themselves.	en
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dc.language	English (United States)	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University	en
dc.relation.ispartof	1990
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.21	en
dc.subject	Animal domestication	en
dc.subject	Pre-Columbian	en
dc.subject	Domesticated	en
dc.subject	Dogs	en
dc.subject	Canis	en
dc.subject	Canine	en
dc.title	Evidence for Pre-Columbian animal domestication in the New World	en
dc.type	Article	en