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DOI	10.3389/feart.2020.633724
	Different Human-Dog Interactions in Early Agricultural Societies of China, Revealed by Coprolite
	Zhang, Yunan; Sun, Guoping; Zhang, Dong; Yang, Xiaoyan; Wu, Xiaohong
通讯作者	Zhang, YA ; Wu, XH (通讯作者)
发表日期	2021
EISSN	2296-6463
卷号	8
英文摘要	Dogs served in a variety of capacities in prehistory. After their domestication in Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies, the emergence of agriculture shifted their partnerships with people. However, the associations between dogs and early farmers are not readily visible in the archaeological record. In the present study, dog coprolites, uncovered from two groups of early agricultural societies in China during the Neolithic Age, the early rice agricultural site of Tianluoshan in the lower Yangtze River, and three early millet-rice mixed agricultural sites of Shuangdun, Yuhuicun, and Houtieying along the middle Huai River, were examined based on the comparisons of lipid and palynological results to reveal different relationships of dogs and humans. The Tianluoshan dogs showed a plant-dominated diet with higher contents of plant sterols and fatty alcohols with longer chain lengths. Dogs may have lived on foraging or been provisioned with refuse for the cleanness purpose. On the contrary, dogs from the sites of Shuangdun, Yuhuicun, and Houtieying showed a meat-dominated diet with higher proportions of animal sterols and short-chain fatty alcohols. It most probably referred to their assistance in hunting and thus being provisioned with meat. Furthermore, activity areas of the dogs also reflect different deployment strategies and agricultural systems, evidenced by pollen spectra from the coprolites. Dogs at Tianluoshan mostly appeared in the rice field area, in correspondence with the labor-consuming rice cultivation as the main targeted resource, showing their participation in daily agricultural activities. On the other hand, high concentrations of pollen from forest and grassland revealed that hunting dogs played a regular role in the early millet-rice mixed farming societies, probably related to the importance of hunting activities in the daily subsistence.
英文关键词	coprolite; human– dog interaction; China; Lower Yangtze Region; Huai River Region; subsistence
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Geology
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000623918100001
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
来源机构	中国科学院青藏高原研究所
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/260291
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yunan,Sun, Guoping,Zhang, Dong,et al. Different Human-Dog Interactions in Early Agricultural Societies of China, Revealed by Coprolite[J]. 中国科学院青藏高原研究所,2021,8.
APA	Zhang, Yunan,Sun, Guoping,Zhang, Dong,Yang, Xiaoyan,&Wu, Xiaohong.(2021).Different Human-Dog Interactions in Early Agricultural Societies of China, Revealed by Coprolite.FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,8.
MLA	Zhang, Yunan,et al."Different Human-Dog Interactions in Early Agricultural Societies of China, Revealed by Coprolite".FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE 8(2021).