Publications

See below for a list of related publications by project team members. If you would like copies of the articles below email info [at] scicultchickens.org.

• Alexander, M., Ho, S., Molak, M., Barnett, R., Carlborg, Ö., Dorshorst, B., Honaker, C., Besnier, F., Wahlberg, P., Dobney, K., Siegel, P., Andersson, L. and Larson, G. 2015. Mitogenomic analysis of a 50-generation chicken pedigree reveals a rapid rate of mitochondrial evolution and evidence for paternal mtDNA inheritance. Biology Letters 11(10)
• Best, J. and Mulville, J. 2014. A Bird in the Hand: Data Collation and Novel Analysis of Avian Remains from South Uist, Outer Hebrides. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 24 (3): 384–396.
• Best, J. and Mulville, J. 2016. Birds from the water: reconstructing avian resource use and contribution to diet in prehistoric Scottish Island environments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6, 654-664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.024
• Crummy, N. 2007. Brooches and the Cult of Mercury, Britannia 38, 225-230.
• Colonese, A.C., Farrell, T., Lucquin, A., Firth, D., Charlton,S., Robson, H.K., Alexander, M., Craig, O.E. 2015. Archaeological bone lipids as palaeodietary markers. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 29, 611–618.
• De Cupere, B., Van Neer, W., Monchot, H., Rijmenants, E., Udrescu, M. and Waelkens, M. 2005. Ancient breeds of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus f. domestica) distinguished on the basis of traditional observations combined with mixture analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 1587-1597.
• Flink, L.G., Allen, R., Barnett, R., Malmström, H., Peters, J.,Eriksson, J., Andersson, L., Dobney, K. and Larson, G. 2014. Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111 (17): 6184-6189.
• Fothergill, B.T. 2014. The husbandry, perception and 'improvement' of the turkey in Britain, 1500-1900. Post-Medieval Archaeology 48 (1), 207-228.
• Fothergill, B.T. 2016. Urban Animals: Human-Poultry Relationships in Later Post-Medieval Belfast. International Journal of Historical Archaeology,.1-27.
• Fothergill, B.T. and Flick, C. 2015. The ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games: the origins of the digital chicken. Computers and Society - Special Issue on Ethicomp 45 (3) 100-108.
• Gordon, R., Thomas, R. and Foster, A. 2015. The health impact of selective breeding in poultry: A probable case of ‘creeper’ chicken (Gallus gallus) from 16th-century Chester, England. International Journal of Paleopathology 9,1-7.
• Larson, G. and Fuller, D. 2014 The Evolution of Animal Domestication. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 45: 115-136.
• Larson, G., Piperno, D.R., Allaby, R.G., Purugganan, M.D., Andersson, L., Arroyo-Kalin, M., Barton, L., Vigueira, C.C., Denham, T., Dobney, K., Doust, A.N., Gepts P., Gilbert, M.T.P., Gremillion, K.J., Lucas, L., Lukens, L., Marshall, F.B., Olsen, K.M., Pires, C.J., Richerson, P.J., de Casas, R.R. Sanjur, O.I., Thomas, M.G. and Fuller, D.Q. 2014. Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111 (17): 6139–6146.
• Maltby, M. 1997. Domestic fowl on Romano-British sites: inter-site comparisons of abundance, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 7: 402-414.
• Maltby, M. 2015. Commercial archaeology, zooarchaeology and the study of Romano-British towns. In: M. Fulford (ed), The Towns of Roman Britain: the Contribution of Commercial Archaeology since 1990. London: Britannia, 175-193.
• Marvin, G. 1984. The cockfight in Andalusia, Spain: images of the truly male, Anthropological Quarterly 57(2): 60-70.
• Peters, J., Lebrasseur, O., Deng, H. and Larson, G. 2016. Holocene cultural history of Red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) and its domestic descendant in East Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews 142, 102-119
• Peters, J., Lebrasseur, O., Best, J., Miller, H., Fothergill, B. T., Dobney, K., Thomas, R. M., Maltby, M., Sykes, N., O’Connor, T., Collins, M., Larson, G. 2015. Questioning new answers regarding Holocene chicken domestication in China, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(19), E2415.
• Poole, K. 2010. Bird introductions. In T. O'Connor and N. Sykes (eds), Extinctions and Invasions. A Social History of British Fauna, pp. 156-165. Macclesfield: Windgather Press.
• Poole. K. and Lacey, E. 2014. Avian aurality in Anglo-Saxon England, World Archaeology 46(3). DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2014.909104.
• Sykes, N. 2012. A social perspective on the introduction of exotic animals: the case of the British chicken, World Archaeology 44(1): 158-169.
• Thomas, R., Holmes, M., and Morris, J. 2013. “So bigge as bigge may be”: tracking size and shape change in domestic livestock in London (AD 1220-1900). Journal of Archaeological Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.02.032
• Thomas, R., Sadler, P., and Cooper, J., 2014. Developmental Osteology of Cross-Bred Red Junglefowl (Gallus Gallus L. 1758) and the Implications for Ageing Chickens from Archaeological Sites. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology DOI: 10.1002/oa.2417
• Thomson V. A., Lebrasseur O., Austin J. J., Hunt T. L., Burney D. A., Denham T., Rawlence N. J., Wood J. R., Gongora J., Girdland Flink L. 2014. Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(13), 4826–4831