Adrian Bălăşescu

TL;DR: Results suggest that dogs may have been domesticated independently in Eastern and Western Eurasia from distinct wolf populations, and East Eurasian dogs were then possibly transported to Europe with people, where they partially replaced European Paleolithic dogs.

TL;DR: Ancient DNA analysis of archaeological cat remains shows cats dispersed along trade routes from the Neolithic era onwards, while its gene pool shows admixture from multiple geographical sources and that the tabby allele originated in the Middle Ages.

TL;DR: Claims that the first domestic pigs in Romania possessed the same mtDNA signatures found in Neolithic pigs in west and central Anatolia are substantiated and a turnover in mitochondrial lineages found in domestic pigs is confirmed, possibly coincident with human migration into Anatolia and the Levant that occurred in later prehistory.

TL;DR: It is suggested that selection for the increased Amy2B copy number started 7000 years cal.

TL;DR: In this article, stable isotope analysis on second and third molar enamel was used to characterize the annual rhythms of slaughtering for tender meat acquisition in Cheia, a prehistoric village in the Dobrodgea province in Romania.