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Uluburun shipwreck stowaway house mouse: molar shape analysis and indirect clues about the vessel's last journey (2008)
Journal Article
Cucchi, T. (2008). Uluburun shipwreck stowaway house mouse: molar shape analysis and indirect clues about the vessel's last journey. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(11), 2953-2959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.06.016

Human translocation by stowaway transport is the widely accepted vector of the current worldwide distribution of commensal rodents but its historical process has never been directly evidenced. The anecdotal find of the small murine (mice and rats) ma... Read More about Uluburun shipwreck stowaway house mouse: molar shape analysis and indirect clues about the vessel's last journey.

The Pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New Evidence for Taxonomic Status and Human-Mediated Dispersal (2008)
Journal Article
Dobney, K., Cucchi, T., & Larson, G. (2008). The Pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New Evidence for Taxonomic Status and Human-Mediated Dispersal. Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, 47(1), 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2008.0009

This paper undertakes a major survey of the genus Sus from Island Southeast Asia and specifically attempts to re-examine the taxonomic status of the pigs of Wallacea, in order to re-evaluate the complex evidence for human mediated dispersal. This was... Read More about The Pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New Evidence for Taxonomic Status and Human-Mediated Dispersal.