Publications by authors named "Dragomir Popovici"
Article Synopsis
- Pigs were first domesticated in Eastern Anatolia around the ninth millennium BC and were spread to Europe by Neolithic farmers starting in the seventh millennium, with evidence of mixing domestic pigs and European wild boar during this time.
- A study combining tooth analysis of 449 ancient Romanian pig teeth and ancient DNA indicated that early domestic pigs in Romania shared maternal genetic signatures with Neolithic pigs from Anatolia.
- Findings showed a significant presence of large molar teeth with domestic shapes from the beginning of the Romanian Neolithic, indicating ongoing hybridization between domesticated pigs and local wild boar, along with shifts in pig mitochondrial lineages possibly linked to human migrations in later prehistory.