| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Farming of domestic birds (including domestic chicken, goose and duck) is thought to have begun in the Neolithic Age in northern China, and domestic chicken farming is considered the oldest poultry farming practice, with its origin tracing back to approximately 10,000 BP. To investigate the domestication process of birds in China, we analyzed bird bones collected from 23 Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in central and northern China. No candidate chicken bones were found at any of the early and middle Neolithic sites, whereas a small number of them were found in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age sites. These observations suggest that chickens were not farmed in central and northern China during the early and middle Neolithic Age and that they were not popular even in the Bronze Age.
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