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Evidence for Pre-Columbian animal domestication in the New World
Johnson, D.L. Swartz, B.K.
Johnson, D.L.
Swartz, B.K.
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1990
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Animal domestication,Pre-Columbian,Domesticated,Dogs,Canis,Canine
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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.
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.
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Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University
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v.21
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1990
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0047-3928