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Introduction involontaire de la souris domestique (Mus musculus domesticus) à Chypre dès le Néolithique précéramique ancien (fin IX[e] et VIII[e] millénaires av. J.-C.)

Cucchi, T.; Vigne, J.D.; Auffray, J.C.; Croft, P.; Peltenburg, E.

Authors

T. Cucchi

J.D. Vigne

J.C. Auffray

P. Croft

E. Peltenburg



Abstract

Sample scarcity and the need of a methodology well-suited to determination of archaeological specimens are responsible for the lack of information on the mechanism and on the ecological and anthropological conditions of the spread of the house mouse in Europe. We applied Fourier outline analysis to the lower first molars of mice from assemblages trapped in water wells from Early and Middle PPNB in Cyprus (Kissonerga-Mylouthkia). Results suggest that the house mouse was a part of the Neolithic ecological and cultural package introduced into the island by the very first agro-pastoral societies coming from the mainland.

Citation

Cucchi, T., Vigne, J., Auffray, J., Croft, P., & Peltenburg, E. (2002). Introduction involontaire de la souris domestique (Mus musculus domesticus) à Chypre dès le Néolithique précéramique ancien (fin IX[e] et VIII[e] millénaires av. J.-C.). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 1(4), 235-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1631-0683%2802%2900033-7

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Sep 1, 2002
Deposit Date Apr 6, 2009
Journal Comptes Rendus Palevol
Print ISSN 1631-0683
Publisher Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 1
Issue 4
Pages 235-241
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/s1631-0683%2802%2900033-7
Keywords Chordata , Vertebrata , Tetrapoda , Asia , Middle east , Phanerozoic , Cenozoic , Quaternary , Upper quaternary , Holocene , Mammalia , Paleoecology , Fourier transformation , Data processing , Teeth , Archaeology , Cyprus , Neolithic.

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