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List of works by Melinda A. Zeder

A Conversation on Agricultural Origins

A Metrical Analysis of a Collection of Modern Goats (Capra hircus aegargus and C. h. hircus) from Iran and Iraq: Implications for the Study of Caprine Domestication

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A Proposed System for Computer Analysis of Identifiable Faunal Material from Archaeological Sites

scholarly article by R. Redding published in January 1975

A new system for computing long-bone fusion age profiles in Sus scrofa

scientific article published in March 2015

A response to Betts (2014)

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Alternative to faith-based science

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

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

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Animal Domestication in the Zagros : A Review of Past and Current Research

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Archaeozoology in Southwest Asia : A Status Report Based on the 8th Meeting of the ASWA Working Group 2006 (Lyon, June 28th – July 1st 2006)

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Assessing the reliability of criteria used to identify mandibles and mandibular teeth in sheep, Ovis, and goats, Capra

Changing Patterns of Animal Utilization at Ancient Gordion

Comment on Sterelny and Watkins

Core questions in domestication research

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Did maize dispersal precede domestication?

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Documenting domestication: the intersection of genetics and archaeology

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Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

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Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis.

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Domestication: Definition and Overview

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

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Grand challenges for archaeology

scientific article published on January 2014

Impacts of biological globalization in the Mediterranean: unveiling the deep history of human-mediated gamebird dispersal

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Meat Consumption and Bone Use in a Mississippian Village

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Mesolithic domestic pigs at Rosenhof – or wild boar? A critical re-appraisal of ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics

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New perspectives on the use of kites in mass-kills of Levantine gazelle: A view from northeastern Syria

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Pathways to Animal Domestication

Religion and the Revolution: The Legacy of Jacques Cauvin

Reply to Ellis et al.: Human niche construction and evolutionary theory

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Reply to Mohlenhoff et al.: Human behavioral ecology needs a rethink that niche-construction theory can provide

scientific article published on June 2015

Reply to Westaway and Lyman: Emus, dingoes, and archaeology's role in conservation biology

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Role of mass-kill hunting strategies in the extirpation of Persian gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) in the northern Levant

scientific article (publication date: 3 May 2011)

Shanidar 10: a Middle Paleolithic immature distal lower limb from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan

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Straw Foxes: Domestication Syndrome Evaluation Comes Up Short

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations

scholarly article by Melinda A. Zeder published in September 2012

The Domestication of Animals

The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East

Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Trophic Structure and Climatic Information From Isotopic Signatures in Pleistocene Cave Fauna of Southern England

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Understanding urban process through the study of specialized subsistence economy in the Near East

scholarly article by Melinda A. Zeder published in March 1988

Why evolutionary biology needs anthropology: Evaluating core assumptions of the extended evolutionary synthesis

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

Wild Boar or Domestic Pigs? Response to Evin et al

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