M
Melinda A. Zeder
Researcher at National Museum of Natural History
Publications - 71
Citations - 8009
Melinda A. Zeder is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Domestication & Niche construction. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 70 publications receiving 6708 citations. Previous affiliations of Melinda A. Zeder include Smithsonian Institution & Santa Fe Institute.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact
TL;DR: Evidence for herd management and crop cultivation appears at least 1,000 years earlier than the morphological changes traditionally used to document domestication, and the initial steps toward plant and animal domestication in the Eastern Mediterranean can be pushed back to the 12th millennium cal B.P.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Initial Domestication of Goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago
Melinda A. Zeder,Brian Hesse +1 more
TL;DR: Initial goat domestication is documented in the highlands of western Iran at 10,000 calibrated calendar years ago and a distinct shift to selective harvesting of subadult males marks initial human management and the transition from hunting to herding of the species.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions
Nicole Boivin,Melinda A. Zeder,Melinda A. Zeder,Dorian Q. Fuller,Alison Crowther,Greger Larson,Jon M. Erlandson,Tim Denham,Michael D. Petraglia +8 more
TL;DR: This work focuses on four major phases that witnessed broad anthropogenic alterations to biodiversity—the Late Pleistocene global human expansion, the Neolithic spread of agriculture, the era of island colonization, and the emergence of early urbanized societies and commercial networks.
Journal ArticleDOI
The onset of the Anthropocene
Bruce D. Smith,Melinda A. Zeder +1 more
TL;DR: A number of different starting dates for the Anthropocene epoch have been proposed, reflecting different disciplinary perspectives and criteria regarding when human societies first began to play a significant role in shaping the earth's ecosystems as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
The origins of agriculture in the Near East
TL;DR: The emerging picture of plant and animal domestication and agricultural origins in the Near East is dramatically different from that drawn 16 years ago, with a more pluralistic view that sees domestication of various crops and livestock occurring across the entire region.