BA (Lancaster), MSc (London), PhD (Bradford)
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- keith.dobney@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- Department of Archaeology University of Aberdeen St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road Aberdeen AB24 3UF Scotland
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
Professor Dobney began his zooarchaeological career working as a Research Assistant to Don Brothwell at the Institute of Archaeology in London. Early research into human and animal palaeopathology and zooarchaeology led to a PhD in Archaeological Science at the University of Bradford, to freelance work in Britain and the Middle East, then to a research post funded by English Heritage at the Environmental Archaeology Unit, University of York. From the EAU in York, Keith moved to the Archaeology Department at Durham University where he held two consecutive Wellcome Trust Bioarchaeology Research Fellowships from 2000-2008. He became a Reader in the Archaeology Department at Durham prior to being appointed in Aberdeen in 2009.
For the last 25 years, Keith has been actively involved in bioarchaeological research in Britain, the Middle East, Central Asia and Central America, and since 2000, has developed international collaborative research in East Asia and Oceania. With the main material focus of his work being the study of animal and human remains, Keith's research incorporates a broad temporal and geographic spread, and involves the use of traditional and novel techniques and approaches.
Keith has organised several major international conferences and workshops, has been invited to give research seminars and presentations at academic and research institutions across the world and has held several visiting research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and the Australian National University in Canberra. He is currently one of two project leaders of a CNRS funded Projet de Groupement De Recherche Européen (GDRE) entitled - BIOARCH- Bioarchaeological Investigations of the Interactions between Holocene Human Societies and their Environments - and the Director of a recently funded Co-Reach Chinese-European research grouping (EUCH-BIOARCH).
- Research
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Research Overview
Principal research themes include the origins of agriculture, the domestication of animals, human and animal dispersal, diet and health, palaeopathology and palaeoeconomics.
Funding and Grants
2000
£186,864
Wellcome Trust – The bioarchaeology of pig domestication and husbandry: its role in the biological, economic and social development of complex human society.
2001
$1,585
Appointment as a Smithsonian Institution Short-term Visitor at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
2002
£2,450
Royal Society and Armenian Academy of Science. Visiting Fellowship to Durham for Dr Ninna Manaseryan
2003
£271,793
Wellcome Trust - Travelling companions and unwelcome guests: an integrated zooarchaeological and biomolecular approach to human dispersal and exchange networks in the Holocene.
2005
$1,727
Appointment as a Smithsonian Institution Short-term Visitor at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
2005
£22,024
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Professor Jing Yuan, Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Beijing.
2005
£157,442
AHRC - The prehistoric origins of Orcadian cultural exchange networks: biomolecular and morphometric studies of Orkney voles (co P.I.'s - Profs Jeremy Searle and Paul O'Higgins, University of York).
2006
£5,969
English Heritage – Completion of monograph entitled: Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats.
2006
£1,500
Daiwa Foundation - Morphometric variation and dental enamel defects in the teeth of ancient island populations of Japanese wild boar (Sus scrofa) as a proxy for studying human interaction in the Jomon period.
2006
£380,249
AHRC - co PI - The origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe – a new database approach (P.I. Prof. Stephen Shennan, Institute of Archaeology UCL.
2006
£125,000
P.I. for RCUK Fellowship - Ancient DNA and human dispersal – Research Councils
2007
£217,341
Leverhulme Trust – Pigs, people and the Neolithisation of Europe – returned after award of NERC grant below.
2007
£460,009
NERC - Pigs, people and the Neolithisation of Europe – co i's Dr Greger Larson, Dr Una Strand-Vidardottir, Prof. Rus Hoelzel
2007
£48,717
NERC – Tied studentship linked with funded project - Pigs, people and the neolithisation of Europe
2008
£60,896
Leverhulme Trust - PhD studentship (and associated indirect costs) to work on Ancient DNA
2009
2010
€150,685
£806,000
Co-Reach (with Institute of Archaeology, Beijing, Natural History Museum Paris & Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) – European-Chinese Bioarchaeology Collaboration (EUCH-BIOARCH) – Contributing to a Broader Agenda.
NERC - Reconsidering Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal Models using Genetic and Morphological Signatures of Domestic Animals - joint with Durham University - co-i's Dr Greger, Larson, Dr Thomas Cucchi and Dr Una Strand-Vidarsdottir.
- Publications
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Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain
Nature Microbiology, vol. 8, pp. 2315-2325Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://rdcu.be/dubFs
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01527-3
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22478/3/Gancz_etal_NM_Ancient_Dental_Calculus_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22478/1/Gancz_etal_NM_Ancient_Dental_Calculus_Figures_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/22478/2/Gancz_etal_NM_Ancient_Dental_Calculus_SITextFigures_AAM.pdf
Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage
Nature, vol. 591, no. 7848, pp. 87-91Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x
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The composition of the founding population of Iceland: A new perspective from 3D analyses of basicranial shape
PloS ONE, vol. 16, no. 2 , e0246059Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOrigins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs
Science, vol. 370, no. 6516, pp. 557-564Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/557/suppl/DC1
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba9572
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15796/1/Bergstrom_Sci_Origins_genetic_AAM.pdf
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- [ONLINE] https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/68428
- [ONLINE] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/168236/
Pre-contact adaptations to the Little Ice Age in Southwest Alaska: New evidence from the Nunalleq site
Quaternary International, vol. 549, pp. 130-141Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.05.003
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15121/1/Masson_MacLean_et_al_QuaInt_Pre_contact_adaptations_VOR.pdf
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- [ONLINE] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.05.003
What's the Catch?: Archaeological application of rapid collagen-based species identification for Pacific Salmon
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 116, 105116Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105116
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Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 286, no. 1916, 20191929Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1929
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13331/1/Ammen_etal_rspb_specialized_VOR.pdf
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Dental Shape Variation and Phylogenetic Signal in the Rattini Tribe Species of Mainland Southeast Asia
Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 435-446Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAncient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, no. 35, pp. 17231-17238Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas
Science, vol. 361, no. 6397, pp. 81-85Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao4776
Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans
Current Biology, vol. 27, no. 21, pp. 3396-3402Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA landmark-based approach for assessing the reliability of mandibular tooth crowding as a marker of dog domestication
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 85, pp. 41-50Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA test for paedomorphism in domestic pig cranial morphology
Biology Letters, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1-5Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0321
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9169/1/20170321.full.pdf
The use of close-range photogrammetry in zooarchaeology: Creating accurate 3D models of wolf crania to study dog domestication
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 9, pp. 87-93Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.028
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6282/3/1_s2.0_S2352409X1630284X_main.pdf
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An Ecological and Evolutionary Framework for Commensalism in Anthropogenic Environments
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 31, no. 8, pp. 633-645Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWild, domestic and feral? Investigating the status of suids in the Romanian Gumelniţa (5th mil. cal BC) with biogeochemistry and geometric morphometrics
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 42, pp. 27-36Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.02.002
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Earliest "Domestic" Cats in China Identified as Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
PloS ONE, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-11Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWere wolves dependent on humans long before they became man's best friend?
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesHow did wild boar become farmyard pigs? Genetic data reveals the answer
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesIdentification of Candida spp from ancient DNA extracted from fossilised dental calculus
Contributions to Conferences: PostersThe ancestral shape hypothesis: an evolutionary explanation for the occurrence of intervertebral disc herniation in humans
BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 15, 68Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0336-y
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4454/1/s12862_015_0336_y.pdf
Phenotype and animal domestication: A study of dental variation between domestic, wild, captive, hybrid and insular Sus scrofa
BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 15, 6Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0269-x
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4304/1/s12862_014_0269_x.pdf
Ancient DNA Analysis of Dental Calculus
Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 79, pp. 119-124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.018
Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 370, no. 1660, 20130616Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0616
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4228/1/20130616.full.pdf
The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the orkney vole (microtus arvalis orcadensis)
Evolution, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 2804-2820Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12476
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4050/1/evo12476.pdf
Reply to Beavan, Bryant, and Storey and Matisoo-Smith: Ancestral Polynesian “D” haplotypes reflect authentic Pacific chicken lineages
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 35, pp. E3585-E3586Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1411566111
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 17, pp. 6139-6146Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323964111
Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 17, pp. 6184-6189Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308939110
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4853/1/Flink_et_al_PURE.pdf
Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 17, pp. 6153-6158Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStorytelling and story testing in domestication: Can modeling help?
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 17, pp. 6159-6164Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1400425111
Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific
PNAS, vol. 111, no. 13, pp. 4826-4831Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320412111
The zooarchaeological application of quantifying cranial shape differences in wild boar and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) using 3D geometric morphometrics
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 43, pp. 159-167Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing traditional biometrical data to distinguish West Palearctic wild boar and domestic pigs in the archaeological record: new methods and standards
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 43, pp. 1-8Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.11.033
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5491/1/Evin_et_al_JAS_PURE.pdf
A geometric morphometric re-evaluation of the use of dental form to explore differences in horse (Equus caballus) populations and its potential zooarchaeological application
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 41, pp. 904-910Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.022
Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder
World Archaeology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 825-834Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe origins and spread of stock-keeping: the role of cultural and environmental influences on early Neolithic animal exploitation in Europe
Antiquity, vol. 87, no. 338, pp. 1046-1059Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049851
Divergent evolutionary processes associated with colonization of offshore islands
Molecular Ecology, vol. 22, no. 20, pp. 5205-5220Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUse of domesticated pigs by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe
Nature Communications, vol. 4, 2348Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics
Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 824-832Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mss261
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3128/1/Ottoni_et_al._2013_MBE.pdf
Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions
Nature Genetics, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 450-455Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe long and winding road: identifying pig domestication through molar size and shape
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 735-743Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.005
Chalcolithic pig remains from Çamlibel Tarlasi, Central Anatolia.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSpecies distribution modelling of ancient cattle from early Neolithic sites in SW Asia and Europe
The Holocene, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 997-1010Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683612437871
Dental enamel hypoplasia as indicators of seasonal environmental and physiological impacts in modern sheep populations: a model for interpreting the zooarchaeological record
Journal of Zoology, vol. 287, no. 4, pp. 259-268Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00912.x
Dog domestication revisited: A new genetic, archeological, and biogeographic perspective
PNAS, vol. 109, no. 23, pp. 8878-8883Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203005109
Enamel hypoplasia in molars of sheep and goats and its relationship to the pattern of tooth crown growth
Journal of Anatomy, vol. 220, no. 5, pp. 484-495Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01482.x
Distinguishing wild boar and domestic pigs in prehistory: a review of approaches and recent results
Journal of World PreHistory, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-44Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-012-9055-0
Meta-analysis of zooarchaeological data from SW Asia and SE Europe provides insight into the origins and spread of animal husbandry
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 538-545Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.008
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Early Neolithic pig domestication at Jiahu, Henan Province, China: clues from molar shape analyses using geometric morphometric approaches
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 11-22Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.07.024
The power of paradigms: examining the evidential basis for early to mid-Holocene pigs and pottery in Melanesia
Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1-25Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPatterns of East Asian pig domestication, migration, and turnover revealed by modern and ancient DNA
PNAS, vol. 107, no. 17, pp. 7686-7691Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0912264107
Ancient DNA typing of archaeological pig remains corroborates historical records
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 174-177Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.029
Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history
Environmental Archaeology, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 103-136Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/146141009X12481709928283
Developmental defects and postmortem changes in archaeological pig teeth from Fais Island, Micronesia
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1637-1646Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.028
New insights into pig taxonomy, domestication and human dispersal in Island South East Asia: molar shape analysis of Sus remains from Niah Caves, Sarawak
International journal of osteoarchaeology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 508-530Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.974
Isotope analysis of human and animal diets from the Hanamiai archaeological site (French Polynesia)
Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 29-37Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.2009.tb00042.x
The pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New evidence for taxonomic status and human-mediated dispersal
Asian Perspectives, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 59-74Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2008.0009
Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe
PNAS, vol. 104, no. 39, pp. 15276-15281Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0703411104
Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in island southeast Asia and Oceania
PNAS, vol. 104, no. 12, pp. 4834-4839Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0607753104
Reconstructing impairment of secretory ameloblast function in porcine teeth by analysis of morphological alterations in dental enamel
Journal of Anatomy, vol. 209, no. 1, pp. 93-110Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGenetics and animal domestication: new windows on an elusive process
Journal of Zoology, vol. 269, no. 2, pp. 261-271Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00042.x