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List of works by Keith Dobney

A geometric morphometric re-evaluation of the use of dental form to explore differences in horse (Equus caballus) populations and its potential zooarchaeological application

A high status burial from Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire, England: differential diagnosis of a chest deformity

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A landmark-based approach for assessing the reliability of mandibular tooth crowding as a marker of dog domestication

A method for evaluating the amount of dental calculus on teeth from archaeological sites

A novel MC1R allele for black coat colour reveals the Polynesian ancestry and hybridization patterns of Hawaiian feral pigs

scientific article

A protocol for recording linear enamel hypoplasia on archaeological pig teeth

A test for paedomorphism in domestic pig cranial morphology.

scientific article

A working classification of sample types for environmental archaeology

article published in 1992

An Ecological and Evolutionary Framework for Commensalism in Anthropogenic Environments

scientific article

Ancient DNA analysis of 101 cattle remains: limits and prospects

article

Ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus

scientific article

Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Ancient DNA typing of archaeological pig remains corroborates historical records

scholarly article by James Haile published in January 2010

Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe

scientific article

Ancient Microbial DNA in Dental Calculus: A New method for Studying Rapid Human Migration Events

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Cottam: An Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds

article published in 1999

Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2014)

Dental Shape Variation and Phylogenetic Signal in the Rattini Tribe Species of Mainland Southeast Asia

article

Dental enamel hypoplasia as indicators of seasonal environmental and physiological impacts in modern sheep populations: a model for interpreting the zooarchaeological record

Developmental defects and postmortem changes in archaeological pig teeth from Fais Island, Micronesia

article published in 2009

Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage

scientific article

Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory: A Review of Approaches and Recent Results

article

Divergent evolutionary processes associated with colonization of offshore islands

scientific article published in October 2013

Dog-human dietary relationships in Yup'ik western Alaska: The stable isotope and zooarchaeological evidence from pre-contact Nunalleq

Don Brothwell (1933–)

Down, but not out: biological evidence for complex economic organization in Lincoln in the late 4th century

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Earliest "Domestic" Cats in China Identified as Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Early Neolithic pig domestication at Jiahu, Henan Province, China: clues from molar shape analyses using geometric morphometric approaches

article

Enamel hypoplasia in molars of sheep and goats, and its relationship to the pattern of tooth crown growth

scientific article (publication date: May 2012)

Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens

scientific article

Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2014)

Evidence of large genetic influences on dog ownership in the Swedish Twin Registry has implications for understanding domestication and health associations

article

Excavations on the Site of the Roman Signal Station At Carr Naze, Filey, 1993–94

article by Patrick Ottaway et al published January 2000 in The Archaeological Journal

Exploring (Rodentia, Muridae) as a possible species complex using geometric morphometrics on dental morphology

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder

article

Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats: the Environmental Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Flixborough

book published in 2007

Genetic isolation of a now extinct population of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2007)

Genetics and animal domestication: new windows on an elusive process

article

Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs

scientific article

Inferring allele frequency trajectories from ancient DNA indicates that selection on a chicken gene coincided with changes in medieval husbandry practices

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Interpreting Developmental Stress in Archaeological Pigs: the Chronology of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia

scholarly article by Keith Dobney published in July 2000

Isotope analysis of human and animal diets from the Hanamiai archaeological site (French Polynesia)

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Mapping Human Movement using Stable Oxygen Isotopic Ratio Mass Spectrometry: Potential Application to Forensic Science Demonstrated by a Modern Horse-Human Study

Meta-analysis of zooarchaeological data from SW Asia and SE Europe provides insight into the origins and spread of animal husbandry

article

Mitogenomic analysis of a 50-generation chicken pedigree reveals a rapid rate of mitochondrial evolution and evidence for paternal mtDNA inheritance

scientific article

Modern wolves trace their origin to a late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia

article published in 2018

Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

scientific article

New insights into pig taxonomy, domestication and human dispersal in Island South East Asia: molar shape analysis ofSusremains from Niah Caves, Sarawak

article

On the causes of perforations in archaeological domestic cattle skulls: New evidence

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Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Patterns of East Asian pig domestication, migration, and turnover revealed by modern and ancient DNA

scientific article (publication date: 27 April 2010)

Phenotype and animal domestication: A study of dental variation between domestic, wild, captive, hybrid and insular Sus scrofa

scientific article

Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania

scholarly article

Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics

scientific article (publication date: April 2013)

Potential adaptations for bipedalism in the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae of Homo sapiens: A 3D comparative analysis

scientific article published on 09 November 2019

Protocol for Recording Enamel Hypoplasia in Modern and Archaeological Caprine Populations

Questioning new answers regarding Holocene chicken domestication in China

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Reconstructing impairment of secretory ameloblast function in porcine teeth by analysis of morphological alterations in dental enamel

scientific article published in July 2006

Reply to Beavan, Bryant, and Storey and Matisoo-Smith: Ancestral Polynesian “D” haplotypes reflect authentic Pacific chicken lineages

scientific article published on September 2014

Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography

scientific article

Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

scientific article published on 17 February 2013

Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history

Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Species distribution modelling of ancient cattle from early Neolithic sites in SW Asia and Europe

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Spondylolysis and spinal adaptations for bipedalism: The overshoot hypothesis

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Storytelling and story testing in domestication

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2014)

The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95k.yr. sequence from Flores, East Indonesia.

scientific article

The York System: An integrated zooarchaeological database for research and teaching

The ancestral shape hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans

scientific article

The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the Orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis).

scientific article

The chronology and frequency of a stress marker (linear enamel hypoplasia) in recent and archaeological populations of Sus scrofa in north-west Europe, and the effects of early domestication

scientific article published in 2004

The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas

scientific article

The long and winding road: identifying pig domestication through molar size and shape

The origins and spread of stock-keeping: the role of cultural and environmental influences on early Neolithic animal exploitation in Europe

scholarly article by Katie Manning published in November 2013

The use of close-range photogrammetry in zooarchaeology: Creating accurate 3D models of wolf crania to study dog domestication

The use of isotope ratios to test for seaweed eating in sheep

scientific article published in 2005

The zooarchaeological application of quantifying cranial shape differences in wild boar and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) using 3D geometric morphometrics

To fish or not to fish?

Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania

scientific article

Use of domesticated pigs by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific

scientific article

Using traditional biometrical data to distinguish West Palearctic wild boar and domestic pigs in the archaeological record: new methods and standards

Wild, domestic and feral? Investigating the status of suids in the Romanian Gumelniţa (5th mil. cal BC) with biogeochemistry and geometric morphometrics

scholarly article by Marie Balasse published in June 2016

Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication

scientific article