LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS .......................................... vii
LIST OF TABLES ................................................. ix
LIST OF FIGURES ................................................ xi
1 Documenting Domestication: Bringing Together Plants,
Animals, Archaeology, and Genetics ........................... 1
Melinda A. Zeder, Daniel G. Bradley, Eve Emshwiller, and
Bruce D. Smith
SECTION ONE
Archaeological Documentation of Plant Domestication
Bruce D. Smith, section editor
2 Documenting Domesticated Plants in the Archaeological
Record ...................................................... 15
Bruce D. Smith
3 Seed Size Increase as a Marker of Domestication in Squash
(Cucurbita pepo) ............................................ 25
Bruce D. Smith
4 A Morphological Approach to Documenting the Domestication
of Chenopodium in the Andes ................................. 32
Maria C. Bruno
5 Identifying Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and Other
Crops in Pre-Columbian Tropical America through Starch
Grain Analysis: A Case Study from Central Panama ............ 46
Dolores R. Piperno
6 Phytolith Evidence for the Early Presence of Domesticated
Banana (Musa) in Africa ..................................... 68
Ch. Mbida, E. De Langhe, L. Vrydaghs, H. Doutrelepont,
Ro. Swennen, W. Van Neer, and P. de Maret
7 Documenting the Presence of Maize in Central and South
America through Phytolith Analysis of Food Residues ......... 82
Robert G. Thompson
SECTION TWO
Genetic Documentation of Plant Domestication
Eve Emshwiller, section editor
8 Genetic Data and Plant Domestication ........................ 99
Eve Emshwiller
9 DNA Sequence Data and Inferences on Cassava's Origin of
Domestication .............................................. 123
Kenneth M. Olsen and Barbara A. Schaal
10 Relationship between Chinese Chive (Allium tuberosum) and
Its Putative Progenitor A. ramosum as Assessed by Random
Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) ........................... 134
Frank R. Blattner and Nikolai Friesen
11 Using Multiple Types of Molecular Markers to Understand
Olive Phylogeography ....................................... 143
Catherine Breton, Guillaume Besnard, and André A. Bervillé
12 Origins of Polyploid Crops: The Example of the Octoploid
Tuber Crop Oxalis tuberosa ................................. 153
Eve Emshwiller
SECTION THREE
Archaeological Documentation of Animal Domestication
Melinda A. Zeder, section editor
13 Archaeological Approaches to Documenting Animal
Domestication .............................................. 171
Melinda A. Zeder
14 A Critical Assessment of Markers of Initial Domestication
in Goats (Capra hircus) .................................... 181
Melinda A. Zeder
15 The Domestication of the Pig (Sus scrofa): New Challenges
and Approaches ............................................. 209
Umberto Albarella, Keith Dobney, and Peter Rowley-Conwy
16 The Domestication of South American Camelids: A View from
the South-Central Andes .................................... 228
Guillermo L. Mengoni Goñalons and Hugo D. Yacobaccio
17 Early Horse Domestication on the Eurasian Steppe ........... 245
Sandra L. Olsen
SECTION FOUR
Genetic Documentation of Animal Domestication
Dan Bradley, section editor
18 Documenting Domestication: Reading Animal Genetic Texts .... 273
Daniel G. Bradley
19 Genetic Analysis of Dog Domestication ...................... 279
Robert K. Wayne, Jennifer A. Leonard, and Carles Vilà
20 Origins and Diffusion of Domestic Goats Inferred from DNA
Markers: Example Analyses of mtDNA, Y Chromosome, and
Microsatellites ............................................ 294
G. Luikart, H. Fernández, M. Mashkour, P.R. England, and
P. Taberlet
21 Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in Modern Sheep: Implications
for Domestication .......................................... 306
Michael W. Bruford and Saffron J. Townsend
22 Genetics and Origins of Domestic Cattle .................... 317
Daniel G. Bradley and David A. Magee
23 Genetic Analysis of the Origins of Domestic South
American Camelids .......................................... 329
Jane C. Wheeler, Lounès Chikhi, and Michael W. Bruford
24 Genetic Documentation of Horse and Donkey Domestication .... 342
Carles Vilà, Jennifer A. Leonard, and Albano Beja-Pereira
INDEX ......................................................... 355
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