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Reexamination of the domestic chicken in ancient China
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Hui Deng
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Jing Yuan
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June 16, 2015
Abstract
Through the re-analyses to the chicken bones unearthed from some archaeological sites and the trimming of the related researches, this paper pointed out that the past recognitions of the domestic chickens in ancient China were mostly questionable. Referring to the new research results and the new development in the verification methods of the ring-necked pheasant and chicken in recent years, as well as the verification of the chicken bones unearthed from the Shenmingpu Site in Xichuan County, Henan, this paper announced the importance of differentiating ring-necked pheasant and chicken from multiple skeletal parts based on the characteristics in the sense of skeletal morphology. Moreover, this paper emphasized that only with this as the foundation, the criteria for distinguishing the morphological characteristics of red jungle-fowl and domestic chicken can be established and the issue of the origin of the domestic chickens in China can be accurately and comprehensively discussed.
Keywords: Chickens-morphology-criteria; domestic animals -China- history; Late Shang Dynasty; zooarchaeology
Published Online: 2015-6-16
Published in Print: 2014-11-17
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Chickens-morphology-criteria;
domestic animals -China- history;
Late Shang Dynasty;
zooarchaeology
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- The Shimao Site in Shenmu County, Shaanxi
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