The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baker, Karis H.; Miller, Holly; Doherty, Sean; Gray, Howard W. I.; Daujat, Julie; Cakirlar, Canan; Spassov, Nikolai; Trantalidou, Katerina; Madgwick, Richard; Lamb, Angela L.; Ameen, Carly; Atici, Levent; Baker, Polydora; Beglane, Fiona; Benkert, Helene; Bendrey, Robin; Roman, Annelise Binois -; Carden, Ruth F.; Curci, Antonio; De Cupere, Bea; Detry, Cleia; Gal, Erika; Genies, Chloe; Kunst, Guenther K.; Liddiard, Robert; Nicholson, Rebecca; Perdikaris, Sophia; Peters, Joris; Pigiere, Fabienne; Pluskowski, Aleksander G.; Sadler, Peta; Sicard, Sandra; Strid, Lena; Sudds, Jack; Symmons, Robert; Tardio, Katie; Valenzuela, Alejandro; van Veen, Monique; Vukovic, Sonja; Weinstock, Jaco; Wilkens, Barbara; Wilson, Roger J. A.; Evans, Jane A.; Hoelzel, A. Rus; Sykes, Naomi
• 署名单位: Durham University; University of Nottingham; University of Exeter; University of Groningen; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Cardiff University; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); NERC British Geological Survey; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas; Atlantic Technological University (ATU); University of Edinburgh; University College Dublin; University of Bologna; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Universidade de Lisboa; HUN-REN; HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities; University of Vienna; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; University of Munich; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Reading; Lund University; Bucknell University; University of Belgrade; University of Southampton
• 刊物名称: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0027-13515
• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310051121
• 发表日期: 2024-02-20
• 关键词: dama-dama-dama; management; wild; phylogeography; populations; DYNAMICS; humans; Europe; muscle; BACK

摘要

Over the last 10,000 y, humans have manipulated fallow deer populations with varying outcomes. Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) are now endangered. European fallow deer (Dama dama) are globally widespread and are simultaneously considered wild, domestic, endangered, invasive and are even the national animal of Barbuda and Antigua. Despite their close association with people, there is no consensus regarding their natural ranges or the timing and circumstances of their human- mediated translocations and extirpations. Our mitochondrial analyses of modern and archaeological specimens revealed two distinct clades of European fallow deer present in Anatolia and the Balkans. Zooarchaeological evidence suggests these regions were their sole glacial refugia. By combining biomolecular analyses with archaeological and textual evidence, we chart the declining distribution of Persian fallow deer and demonstrate that humans repeatedly translocated European fallow deer, sourced from the most geographically distant populations. Deer taken to Neolithic Chios and Rhodes derived not from nearby Anatolia, but from the Balkans. Though fallow deer were translocated throughout the Mediterranean as part of their association with the Greco - Roman goddesses Artemis and Diana, deer taken to Roman Mallorca were not locally available Dama dama, but Dama mesopotamica. Romans also initially introduced fallow deer to Northern Europe but the species became extinct and was reintroduced in the medieval period, this time from Anatolia. European colonial powers then transported deer populations across the globe. The biocultural histories of fallow deer challenge preconceptions about the divisions between wild and domestic species and provide information that should underpin modern management strategies.