JEANJEAN , Marine

La domestication des plantes et des animaux marque une transition majeure dans l'histoire humaine et constitue un élément clé du développement des sociétés modernes. Les races et variétés domestiques locales et traditionnelles sont en effet le résultat de millénaires de sélection par les agriculteurs. Cependant, nous vivons aujourd'hui une...

Sheep and goat are often herded together and show morphological similarities in their skeleton. Being able to identify archaeological remains of these two taxa to species level is particularly important for understanding and characterising past herding practices. Discrete criteria are now available to identify a large number of their bones and...

The development of agricultural societies is closely entangled with that of domestic animals and plants. Local and traditional domestic breeds and varieties are the result of millennia of selec- tion by farmers. DEMETER (2020-2025) is an international pro- ject which is aiming to characterize the changes in animal and plant agrobiodiversity...