The earliest known guinea pig remains? Where did they come from before that?
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Replying to @CharlieEdmunds @caitlinrgreen
Earliest known remains *in England*, I assume - guinea pigs come from South America.
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Replying to @alexvtunzelmann @CharlieEdmunds
Earliest in Europe, in fact :) I assume that remains known from S.American and poss Caribbean sites, but not familiar with the data there...
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Not the Caribbean, those lil guys are pure Andes. An early domesticate... 5000 yrs ago, more maybe. Plenty of wild ones still
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I seem to recall mention of them in the first half of the 16thC in the Caribbean, presumably via Spaniards? Happy to be wrong though! :) And 5000 years ago?! Impressive!
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @DrDonnaYates and
they are in the Caribbean archaeological record. Not a ton. Michelle Lefebvre (various pubs) has documented spread and origin.
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @cfaltes and
Ooh, looking into this very cursorily, apparently in the Caribbean before the Spanish! Fascinating :) E.g. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott_Fitzpatrick/publication/231898812_Human_Impacts_and_Adaptations_in_the_Caribbean_Islands_an_Historical_Ecology_Approach/links/09e4150b2a5fb6930c000000/Human-Impacts-and-Adaptations-in-the-Caribbean-Islands-an-Historical-Ecology-Approach.pdf …
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Replying to @DrDonnaYates @caitlinrgreen and
They look different from hutia and rice rat. Here is an overview, if interested: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15564894.2013.861545?src=recsys&journalCode=uica20 …
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Oh, thanks for this, perfect! :)
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