Emplaced and Genetic Markers of Domestication David G. Anderson University of Aberdeen Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Sponsored Workshop, Aberdeen, 3-4 December 2013

Arctic Domestication: Emplacing Human-Animal Relationships in the Circumpolar North a five-year international research project financed by the ERC based in the Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences involving a team of 18 researchers, including 5 post-doctoral fellows and three PhD students field research in five countries across the circumpolar Arctic

Three Arctic Species: o Fish although a ‘newly’ domesticated laboratory species have long supported complex relationships in Northern lands o Dogs, said to the be the ‘first’ species to be domesticated, often participate in complex social networks both with people and other animals o Reindeer/caribou, a classic ‘Arctic species’, have proven to come in and out of various forms of domestication with such intensity as to question the definition of the term itself. Across the circumpolar North one often finds a ‘triad’ of dogs, reindeer/caribou and fish

Seven ‘laboratories’, Four disciplines: o ethnography o science studies o environmental archaeology o genetic sampling the project complicates the idea of ‘person’ and ‘place’ by researching locales where domestication arises we therefore treat tundra encampments and university laboratory as sites of equal status, not to mention enskilment that flows from animals to people or from animals to other animals. in terms of ‘data’ we will work with four traditions:

Topogenesis Аян- Перевоз Кэвер – Марь – р. Базараная Поляна – Остров – Lake Tolondo Лайда – р. Хантайка

The ‘paradox’ of swampy dry places

Tilia chart by Edward Schofield, Univ of Aberdeen ‘Paradoxical’ rises in both dry and damp tolerant plants – a possible ecological marker of reindeer grazing

The science of domestication  Coat-colour markers open a ‘window’ on the history of domestication

Genotype c.218Genotype c.839 Belly colorTTTCCCTTTGGG White (28)28 Dark (14) Table 1 – Distribution of MC1R - genotypes among individuals with white and dark belly. One animal was heterozygous at both positions, explaining why the “dark” genotypes did not summarize to 14. Two missense mutations in melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) are strongly associated with dark ventral coat color in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) Dag I Våge 1*, Mauri Nieminen 2, David G Anderson 3, Knut H. Røed 4

Баючикан – от дикого Local Pedigrees

Structures that confine - corrals Winter counting corral - ХантайкаSpring ‘marshalling ’ corral – Амудисы Autumn enclosure for cows – Килгой Summer milking corral – р. Нечера

Structures that tame – ‘pegging’ Corrals for human living spaces - Килгой

Thank you! 13 arctidomus.org ERC Advanced Grant ‘Arctic Domestication’