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Melinda A. Zeder

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#363

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Melinda A. Zeder's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Arizona
Masters Anthropology University of Arizona
Bachelors Anthropology University of Arizona

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According to Wikipedia, Melinda A. Zeder is an American archaeologist and Curator Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Her zooarchaeological research has revolutionized understandings of animal domestication.

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Melinda A. Zeder's Published Works

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Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact (2008) (833)
The initial domestication of goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros mountains 10,000 years ago. (2000) (612)
Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions (2016) (511)
The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East (2011) (458)
The onset of the Anthropocene (2013) (445)
Documenting domestication: the intersection of genetics and archaeology. (2006) (399)
Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms (2006) (397)
Grand challenges for archaeology (2014) (346)
Core questions in domestication research (2015) (343)
Assessing the reliability of criteria used to identify postcranial bones in sheep, Ovis, and goats, Capra (2010) (281)
The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations (2012) (240)
Central questions in the domestication of plants and animals (2006) (228)
Assessing the reliability of criteria used to identify mandibles and mandibular teeth in sheep, Ovis, and goats, Capra (2010) (208)
Feeding cities : specialized animal economy in the ancient Near East (1993) (185)
The Domestication of Animals (1982) (179)
9 Pathways to Animal Domestication (2012) (162)
The Neolithic Macro-(R)evolution: Macroevolutionary Theory and the Study of Culture Change (2009) (149)
Trophic Structure and Climatic Information From Isotopic Signatures in Pleistocene Cave Fauna of Southern England (1995) (141)
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 (2001) (132)
Domestication as a model system for niche construction theory (2016) (128)
Reconciling Rates of Long Bone Fusion and Tooth Eruption and Wear in Sheep (Ovis) and Goat (Capra) (2015) (113)
Role of mass-kill hunting strategies in the extirpation of Persian gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) in the northern Levant (2011) (89)
Approaches to faunal analysis in the Middle East (1978) (81)
Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis (2017) (80)
Understanding urban process through the study of specialized subsistence economy in the Near East (1988) (78)
Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (2019) (76)
A Conversation on Agricultural Origins (2009) (74)
A new system for computing dentition-based age profiles in Sus scrofa (2014) (70)
Animal Domestication in the Zagros: an Update and Directions for Future Research (2008) (63)
The American Archaeologist: A Profile (1997) (62)
Animal Domestication in the Zagros : A Review of Past and Current Research. (1999) (58)
New perspectives on the use of kites in mass-kills of Levantine gazelle: A view from northeastern Syria (2013) (57)
After the Revolution: Post‐Neolithic Subsistence in Northern Mesopotamia (1994) (56)
From Food and Fuel to Farms and Flocks (2009) (54)
Why evolutionary biology needs anthropology: Evaluating core assumptions of the extended evolutionary synthesis (2018) (45)
A new system for computing long-bone fusion age profiles in Sus scrofa * (2015) (44)
Evolutionary Biology and the Emergence of Agriculture: The Value of Co-opted Models of Evolution in the Study of Culture Change (2009) (41)
Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse (2020) (38)
Shanidar 10: a Middle Paleolithic immature distal lower limb from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. (2007) (34)
Out of the Fertile Crescent: The dispersal of domestic livestock through Europe and Africa (2017) (33)
Changing patterns of animal utilization at ancient Gordion (1994) (32)
Pigs and emergent complexity in the ancient Near East (1998) (32)
THE SIMULATION OF A LINEAR EXCHANGE SYSTEM UNDER EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS (1977) (28)
16. The Domestication Of South American Camelids: A View From The South-Central Andes (2019) (28)
New insights into broad spectrum communities of the Early Holocene Near East: The birds of Hallan Çemi (2016) (27)
The Bronze Age Settlements at Tell Halif: Phase II Excavations, 1983-1987 (1990) (26)
Environment, Economy, and Subsistence on the Threshold of Urban Emergence in Northern Mesopotamia (1998) (25)
17. Early Horse Domestication On The Eurasian Steppe (2019) (22)
Mesolithic domestic pigs at Rosenhof – or wild boar? A critical re-appraisal of ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics (2014) (21)
Herded and hunted goat genomes from the dawn of domestication in the Zagros Mountains (2021) (20)
13. Archaeological Approaches To Documenting Animal Domestication (2019) (18)
Alternative to faith-based science (2014) (18)
Reply to Mohlenhoff et al.: Human behavioral ecology needs a rethink that niche-construction theory can provide (2015) (17)
An Anthropocene Without Archaeology—Should We Care? (2014) (17)
Impacts of biological globalization in the Mediterranean: Unveiling the deep history of human-mediated gamebird dispersal (2015) (16)
Straw Foxes: Domestication Syndrome Evaluation Comes Up Short. (2020) (15)
Meat Consumption and Bone Use in a Mississippian Village (1996) (13)
Wild Boar or Domestic Pigs? Response to Evin et al. (2014) (12)
A DNA microarray facilitates the diagnosis of Bacillus anthracis in environmental samples (2009) (11)
Religion and the Revolution: The Legacy of Jacques Cauvin (2011) (10)
Factors affecting molar size in Sus scrofa (2020) (9)
A method for constructing demographic profiles in Sus scrofa using Logarithm Size Index scaling (2020) (9)
A response to Betts (2014) (2014) (8)
Colloque: Archaeozoology in Southwest Asia. A Status Report Based on the Eighth Meeting of the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group 2006 (Lyon, June 28th ¿ July 1st 2006). (2006) (7)
Archaeozoology in Southwest Asia : A Status Report Based on the 8th Meeting of the ASWA Working Group 2006 (Lyon, June 28th – July 1st 2006) (2006) (7)
A Proposed System for Computer Analysis of Identifiable Faunal Material from Archaeological Sites (1975) (6)
Domestication: Definition and Overview (2020) (5)
Reply to Ellis et al.: Human niche construction and evolutionary theory (2016) (4)
1. Documenting Domestication: Bringing Together Plants, Animals, Archaeology, And Genetics (2019) (4)
Did maize dispersal precede domestication? (2018) (3)
Forum: Grand Challenges for Archaeology (2014) (3)
Comment on Sterelny and Watkins (2015) (2)
A return to Groningen – ASWA XII and the future of archaeozoology in Southwest Asia (and Adjacent Areas) (2019) (2)
the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago ) in Capra hircus The Initial Domestication of Goats ( (2007) (2)
Reply to Westaway and Lyman: Emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology (2016) (1)
Fox Overabundance and Human Response in the Earliest Villages of the Near East (2017) (1)
Documenting Domestication 2.0 (2019) (0)
6. Phytolith Evidence For The Early Presence Of Domesticated Banana (Musa) In Africa (2006) (0)
Domestication as a model system for niche construction theory (2016) (0)
Prizes and Awards (1997) (0)
14. A Critical Assessment Of Markers Of Initial Domestication In Goats (Capra Hircus) (2019) (0)
Table of Contents (1985) (0)
The Black Francolin. Food for gourmets, game for nobles, lust for lovers: reawakening the memory and assessing the origin of a prized courtly bird. (2016) (0)
A Journey Begins with a Single Step: How Early Holocene Humans and Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Embarked on the Pathway to Domestication in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (2022) (0)
Unravelling the biogeography of secretive taxa by museum collections: the untold story of the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus, Phasianidae) in the Mediterranean (2015) (0)
New Perspectives on Agricultural Origins in the Ancient Near East (2014) (0)
Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse (2020) (0)
15. The Domestication Of The Pig (Sus Scrofa): New Challenges And Approaches (2019) (0)
Camelids GUILLERMO MENGONI YACOBACCIO camelids camelid camelids (2006) (0)
Camelids GUILLERMO MENGONI YACOBACCIO camelids camelid camelids (2006) (0)
The Black Francolin: Assessing the Origins of a Prized Courtly Bird in an Interdisciplinary Manner (2019) (0)
Ecological consequencesofhumanniche construction:Examininglong-termanthropogenic shapingofglobal speciesdistributions (2016) (0)
Advisory Board and Contents (2020) (0)
Supplementary material from "Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis" (2017) (0)
CHANGING PATTERNS OF ANIMAL UTILIZATION (1994) (0)
Feast or Famine: The Broad Spectrum Revolution Revisited (2015) (0)
Early Americans: respecting ancestors. (2014) (0)

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