On the trail of Neolithic mice and men towards Transcaucasia: zooarchaeological clues from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan)
On the trail of Neolithic mice and men towards Transcaucasia: zooarchaeological clues from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan)
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10.1111/bij.12004
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Marro, Catherine
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作者：
Cucchi, Thomas;Kovacs, Zsofia Eszter;Marro, Catherine
外高加索地区是了解家鼠血统之间的混合区和新石器时代生活方式在近东摇篮之外的传播历史的关键地区。在纳希切万（阿塞拜疆纳希切万自治共和国）一个有6000年历史的村庄的坑中发现了老鼠遗骸，从而有机会记录外高加索人和老鼠的殖民历史。本研究调查了他们的分类和最有可能的传播路径，通过确定的Mus血统，他们可能属于使用几何形态测量方法的牙齿性状之间的距离考古和现代人口的不同Mus血统的西南亚。我们证明，老鼠仍然被困在深存储坑的住宅属于小家鼠musculus arcticus从近东，牙齿形状类似于目前的人口在北方叙利亚。这些结果有力地表明，在公元前7至5千年之间的某个时间，新石器时代的迁徙使南高加索人从幼发拉底河流域上游分散到外高加索地区，这为支持南高加索农业出现的近东刺激提供了大量证据。5000年后，在同一地点的家鼠的线粒体DNA签名，以及他们的营业额对一个亚种小家鼠/栗色表型，表明早期的小家鼠殖民者杂交与后来的小家鼠（也许栗色）分散起源于里海南部和/或北方高加索。(c)2013年伦敦林奈学会
Transcaucasia comprises a key region for understanding the history of both the hybrid zone between house mouse lineages and the dispersal of the Neolithic way of life outside its Near Eastern cradle. The opportunity to document the colonization history of both men and mice in Transcaucasia was made possible by the discovery of mouse remains accumulated in pits from a 6000-year-old farming village in the Nakhchivan (Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan). The present study investigated their taxonomy and most likely dispersal path through the identification of the Mus lineage to which they might belong using a geometric morphometric approach of dental traits distances between archaeological and modern populations of the different Mus lineages of South-West Asia. We demonstrate that the mouse remains trapped in the deep storage pits of the dwelling belong to the Mus musculus domesticus from the Near East, with dental shapes similar to current populations in Northern Syria. These results strongly suggest that the domesticus lineage was dispersed into Transcaucasia from the upper Euphrates valley by Neolithic migration, some time between the 7th and 5th millennium BC, providing substantial evidence to back up the scenario featuring near-eastern stimuli in the emergence of agriculture in the South Caucasus. The domesticus mitochondrial DNA signature of the current house mouse in the same location 5000 years later, as well as their turnover towards a subspecies musculus/castaneus phenotype, suggests that early domesticus colonizers hybridized with a later musculus (and maybe castaneus) dispersal originating from south of the Caspian Sea and/or Northern Caucasia.(c) 2013 The Linnean Society of London