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      Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse

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          The house mouse ( Mus musculus) represents the extreme of globalization of invasive mammals. However, the timing and basis of its origin and early phases of dispersal remain poorly documented. To track its synanthropisation and subsequent invasive spread during the develoment of complex human societies, we analyzed 829 Mus specimens from 43 archaeological contexts in Southwestern Asia and Southeastern Europe, between 40,000 and 3,000 cal. BP, combining geometric morphometrics numerical taxonomy, ancient mitochondrial DNA and direct radiocarbon dating. We found that large late hunter-gatherer sedentary settlements in the Levant, c. 14,500 cal. BP, promoted the commensal behaviour of the house mouse, which probably led the commensal pathway to cat domestication. House mouse invasive spread was then fostered through the emergence of agriculture throughout the Near East 12,000 years ago. Stowaway transport of house mice to Cyprus can be inferred as early as 10,800 years ago. However, the house mouse invasion of Europe did not happen until the development of proto urbanism and exchange networks — 6,500 years ago in Eastern Europe and 4000 years ago in Southern Europe — which in turn may have driven the first human mediated dispersal of cats in Europe.

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                cucchi@mnhn.fr
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                Scientific Reports
                Nature Publishing Group UK (London )
                2045-2322
                19 May 2020
                19 May 2020
                2020
                : 10
                : 8276
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                [1 ]Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), UMR 7209, CNRS, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
                [2 ]Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies, Souidias 54, 10676 Athens, Greece
                [3 ]Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture, CP 21, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris, France
                [4 ]Centre de recherche en Paléontologie Paris, UMR7207, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 8 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
                [5 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2174 9334, GRID grid.410350.3, DGD-REVE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 17 Place du Trocadéro, bureau E205, ; 75016 Paris, France
                [6 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1937 1389, GRID grid.418333.e, Vasile Pârvan, Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, ; 11 Henri Coandă Street, Bucarest, Romania
                [7 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 914X, GRID grid.266818.3, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas/Desert Research Institute, ; Reno, Nevada USA
                [8 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2326 1930, GRID grid.463799.6, Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité (Arscan), UMR 7041 CNRS, Université de Paris Nanterre, Paris I, ; 92023 Nanterre, France
                [9 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9094, GRID grid.40263.33, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, ; Box 1837, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912 USA
                [10 ]ISNI 0000 0001 0697 0401, GRID grid.424647.7, Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ardittou 34B, ; 11636 Athens, Greece
                [11 ]ISNI 0000 0001 0666 1211, GRID grid.411301.6, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, ; Mashhad, Iran
                [12 ]Paleolithic Department, National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran
                [13 ]ISNI 0000000121885934, GRID grid.5335.0, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, ; Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ UK
                [14 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 7371, GRID grid.1020.3, Archaeology, School of HASS, University of New England, ; Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia
                [15 ]Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), Tehran, Iran
                [16 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9721, GRID grid.7839.5, Near Eastern Archaeology, Institute für Archäologie Wissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, ; Frankfurt am Main, Germany
                [17 ]Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), UMR 7205, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Université des Antilles, CNRS, Paris, France
                [18 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9668, GRID grid.5685.e, BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, ; York, YO10 5DD UK
                [19 ]ISNI 0000 0001 0728 4630, GRID grid.17236.31, Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, ; Poole, BH12 5BB UK
                [20 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2192 7591, GRID grid.453560.1, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, ; Washington, District of Columbia USA
                [21 ]ISNI 000000041936877X, GRID grid.5386.8, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, ; Ithaca NY, 14853-2701 USA
                [22 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 8948, GRID grid.4991.5, Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, ; Oxford, OX1 3TG UK
                [23 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2188 7059, GRID grid.462058.d, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution (ISEM), UMR 4554, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Université de Montpellier, ; Montpellier, France
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