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Long-term morphological changes and evolving human-pig relations in the northern Fertile Crescent from 11,000 to 2000 cal. bc (2017)
Journal Article
Price, M. D., & Evin, A. (2019). Long-term morphological changes and evolving human-pig relations in the northern Fertile Crescent from 11,000 to 2000 cal. bc. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(1), 237-251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0536-z

The pig (Sus scrofa) was one of the earliest animals in the ancient Middle East to undergo domestication. Scholars have long been interested in the pig’s unique history, especially in the northern Fertile Crescent (NFC), the region in which the first... Read More about Long-term morphological changes and evolving human-pig relations in the northern Fertile Crescent from 11,000 to 2000 cal. bc.

Pigs and the pastoral bias: The other animal economy in northern Mesopotamia (3000–2000 BCE) (2017)
Journal Article
Price, M., Grossman, K., & Paulette, T. (2017). Pigs and the pastoral bias: The other animal economy in northern Mesopotamia (3000–2000 BCE). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 48, 46-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2017.06.001

Discussion of the animal economy in Mesopotamia has been subject to a persistent, pastoral bias. Most general treatments assume that the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000–2000 BCE) animal economy was dominated by the herding of sheep and goats. An examinati... Read More about Pigs and the pastoral bias: The other animal economy in northern Mesopotamia (3000–2000 BCE).

A probabilistic model for distinguishing between sheep and goat postcranial remains (2017)
Journal Article
Wolfhagen, J., & Price, M. D. (2017). A probabilistic model for distinguishing between sheep and goat postcranial remains. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 12, 625-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.02.022

Distinguishing morphologically-similar taxa is a perennial problem for zooarchaeologists. As an example, zooarchaeological methods to distinguish sheep and goat bones are limited by the fact that diagnostic traits are not exclusive to each species. F... Read More about A probabilistic model for distinguishing between sheep and goat postcranial remains.