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Radiocarbon dating redefines the timing and circumstances of the chicken’s introduction to Europe and northwest Africa
- Abstract:
- Astonishingly little is known about the early history of the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). To better understand their spatiotemporal spread across Eurasia and Africa, we radiocarbon dated presumed early chicken bones. The results indicate chickens were an Iron Age arrival to Europe and that there was a consistent time-lag of several centuries between their introduction to new regions and incorporation into the human diet. Well-dated evidence for Britain and mainland Europe suggests chickens were initially considered exotica and buried as individuals, were gradually incorporated into human funerary rites, and only much later came to be seen as just ‘food’.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.15184/aqy.2021.90
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Antiquity More from this journal
- Volume:
- 96
- Issue:
- 388
- Pages:
- 868 - 882
- Publication date:
- 2022-06-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-24
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1745-1744
- ISSN:
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0003-598X
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English
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1185107
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pubs:1185107
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2021-07-05
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- Best et al
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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