Wim Van Neer

The paper analyzes a 2000-year fish bone record to show that commercial fisheries expanded during climatic changes, with increased marine fishing during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and homogenization during the Little Ice Age.

This study uses ancient and modern cat genomes to show domestic cats reached Europe within the last 2,000 years from North Africa, not with Neolithic farmers, and identifies an earlier wildcat introduction to Sardinia.

This paper analyzes ancient cat mtDNA sequences to trace the dispersal and domestication history of cats, showing contributions from Near Eastern and Egyptian populations over time.