Establishment of the model of relationships between human and livestock in Asia and Indian Ocean Regions

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25304005
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural assets study and museology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Endo Hideki 東京大学, 総合研究博物館, 教授 (30249908)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SASAKI Takeshi 東京農業大学, 農学部, 教授 (00581844) ; IKEYA Kazunobu 国立民族学博物館, 民族社会研究部, 教授 (10211723) ; HONGO Hitomi 総合研究大学院大学, 先導科学研究科, 准教授 (20303919) ; OSHIDA Tatsuo 帯広畜産大学, 畜産学部, 教授 (50374765)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 家畜化 / 育種 / アジア・インド洋圏 / インベントリー / モデル / 動物考古学 / セキショクヤケイ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We tried to establish the model of relationships between human and livestock indicating the domestication process. We concluded that the domestication model should be based on the non-economic and spiritual factors among human, wild populations and livestock. From the data of grazing of semi-domesticated pigs and multiple approaches of human and jungle fowls, we suggest that various genetic resources might be introduced to the maintained populations in early stages of the domestication. In conclusion the model of relationships between human and livestock including complicated factors of domestication and variations of wild populations could be established.

Free Research Field

家畜誌