Re: Ancient Pig DNA Study Sheds New Light On Colonization Of Europe By Early Farmers
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:37:49 -0400
Jack Linthicum wrote:
Ancient Pig DNA Study Sheds New Light On Colonization Of Europe By....
Early Farmers
Durham University's Dr Keith Dobney explained: "Many archaeologists
believe that farming spread through the diffusion of ideas and
cultural exchange, not with the direct migration of people. However,
the discovery and analysis of ancient Middle Eastern pig remains
across Europe reveals that although cultural exchange did happen,
Europe was definitely colonised by Middle Eastern farmers.
How many years of using pigs as trade goods does it take for a pig to get from Ur to Durham? If only a thousand it is certain to have happened without physical migration. And I mean trade goods as in the usual things farmers do among themselves not as in the Silk Road kind of thing.
"A combination of rising population and possible climate change in the
'fertile crescent', which put pressure on land and resources, made
them look for new places to settle, plant their crops and breed their
animals and so they rapidly spread west into Europe."
It is not credible "Turkey" was unpopulated at that time. Agreed there is no evidence of any resistance to migration in sparsely populated areas.
The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Smithsonian
Institution also showed that within 500 years after the local
domestication of the European wild boar, the new domestics completely
replaced the Middle Eastern pigs that had arrived in Europe as part of
the 'farming package'.
Sounds more like interbreeding leading to a superior hybrid. I wonder how he eliminated this as a possibility.
Dr Greger Larson, who performed the genetic analysis said: "The
domestic pigs that were derived from the European wild boar must have
been considered vastly superior to those originally from Middle East,
though at this point we have no idea why.
They were tasted so bad at least two religions banned eating them. ;)
In fact, the European
domestic pigs were so successful that over the next several thousand
years they spread across the continent and even back into the Middle
East where they overtook the indigenous domestic pigs. For whatever
reason, European pigs were the must have farm animal."
Or the hybrid naturally spread by simple trading of piglets for grain or whatever. The more populous Europe would be producing more pigs so the spread of the type would be from west to east.
The research is part of an ongoing research project based at Durham
University which explores the role of animals in reconstructing early
farming, ancient human migration and past trade and exchange networks
around the world.
Which leads me to ask how long it has been in business and if it might be to early to drawing conclusions beyond the evidence.
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