Yeomans Lisa
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies/Globe Insititute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK.
J Archaeol Res. 2025 Jan 7. doi: 10.1007/s10814-024-09206-5.
In this paper, I review archaeological evidence for shifting human-avian interactions. Many species of birds, altering their behavior in response to anthropogenic niche construction, experienced an increased encounter rate with humans. Intensification of this relationship led to management and domestication of some taxa. An examination of the methods zooarchaeologists employ to study this changing interaction illustrates the limitations of evidence. Art history, architecture, historical sources, evidence based on modern distributions, and DNA analysis fill in some gaps in our knowledge. It is necessary to develop novel methods to investigate the earlier history of bird-human interactions. We also need to consider other taxa behaviorally amenable to domestication, as there was probably a diverse array of past human-bird relationships that remain unknown. Archaeologically, the relationship between people and birds is fundamental to understanding many symbolic and economic practices central to human societies. This review highlights the varied relationships between humans and birds globally allowing cross-regional examination.
在本文中，我回顾了人类与鸟类互动变化的考古证据。许多鸟类物种因应人类生态位构建而改变其行为，与人类的相遇率增加。这种关系的强化导致了对一些分类群的管理和驯化。对动物考古学家用于研究这种不断变化的互动的方法进行考察，揭示了证据的局限性。艺术史、建筑、历史资料、基于现代分布的证据以及DNA分析填补了我们知识中的一些空白。有必要开发新方法来研究鸟类与人类互动的早期历史。我们还需要考虑其他在行为上易于驯化的分类群，因为过去可能存在各种各样未知的人类与鸟类的关系。在考古学上，人与鸟之间的关系对于理解人类社会许多核心的象征和经济实践至关重要。这篇综述突出了全球范围内人类与鸟类之间的多样关系，从而能够进行跨区域研究。
