Staff
Dr Thomas Cucchi, Ba History, Msc Environmental Archaelogy, PhD
Biography
• MA, History, University of Paris 1(Pantheon-Sorbonne) (graduated 1997).
• MSc. Environmental Archaeology, University of Paris 1(Pantheon-Sorbonne), Institute of Art & Archaeology (graduated 2001).
• PhD Natural History Museum of Paris, “Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation » department, UMR CNRS 5197 “Zooarchaeology and human societies” (graduated January 2005).
Research interests
• Origin and human dispersal of domesticates ungulates and commensal small mammal species as a direct and indirect proxy of (i) human cognitive evolution and migrations and (ii) impact of anthropisation on Holocene mammal diversity
• Development of Geometric morphometrics applications in Zooarcheology
• Geographical foci include Europe and the Mediterranean area, the Near and Middle East, China, Island Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Research Project
• Bioarchaeology of Pig Domestication and Husbandry project Programme
• Travelling companions and unwelcome guests: human dispersal and exchange networks in the Holocene
• Origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe
• Prehistoric origins of Orcadian cultural exchange networks: biomolecular and morphometric studies of Orkney voles
Selected Publications
Edited works: conference proceedings
- Michaux, J., Cucchi, T. & Renaud, S. (2006). Souris domestique et colonisation de l'archipel des Canaries. Le Quaternaire, Limites et Spécificités, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.
- Cucchi, T. (2005). The passive transportation of the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) to Cyprus: a new indirect evidence of intensive Neolithic navigation in Eastern Mediterranean. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas, London, ARC-Publicaties.
Journal papers: academic
- Dobney, K., Cucchi, T. & Larson, G. (2008). The Pigs of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New Evidence for Taxonomic Status and Human-Mediated Dispersal. Asian Perspectives 47(1): 59-74.
- Cucchi, Thomas (2008). Uluburun shipwreck stowaway house mouse: molar shape analysis and indirect clues about the vessel's last journey. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(11): 2953-2959.
- Michaux, J., Cucchi, T., Renaud, S., Garcia-Talavera, F. & Hutterer, R. (2007). Evolution of an invasive rodent on an archipelago as revealed by molar shape analysis: the house mouse in the Canary Islands. Journal of Biogeography 34(8): 1412-1425.
- Vigne, J.D., Bignon, O., Callou, C., Cucchi, T., Mashkour, M., Auffray, J.C. & Baylac, M. (2007). Geometrics morphometrics and fragmented archaeological skeleton remains: Examples, limits and perspectives. Journal of Morphology 268(12): 1145-1145.
- Larson, G., Cucchi, T. , Fujita, M. Matisoo-Smith, E. Robins, J. Anderson, A. Rolett, B. Spriggs, M., Dolman, G. Kim, T-H. Dieu Thuy, N.T. Randi, E., Doherty, M. Due, R.A., Bollt, R., Djubiantono, T. Griffin, B. Intoh, M. Keane, E. Kirch, P. Li, K-T., Morwood, M. Pedri, L.M. Piper, P.J. Rabett, R.J. Shooter, P. Van den Bergh, G. West, E. Wickler, S. Yuan, J., Cooper, A. & Dobney, K. (2007). Phylogeny and Ancient DNA of Sus Provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(12): 4834-4839.
- Cucchi, T., Orth, A., Auffray, J. C., Renaud, S., Fabre, L., Catalan, J. F., Hadjisterkostis, E., Bonhomme, F. & Vigne, J. D. (2006). A New Endemic Species of Subgenus Mus (Rodentia, Mammalia) on the Island of Cyprus. Zootaxa 1241: 1-36.
- Cucchi, T. & Vigne, J.D. (2006). Origin and diffusion of the house mouse in the Mediterranean. Human Evolution 21(2): 95-106.
- Cucchi, T., Vigne, J. D. & Auffray, J. C. (2005). First Occurrence of the House Mouse (Mus Musculus Domesticus Schwarz & Schwarz, 1943) in Western Mediterranean A Zooarchaeological Revision of Sub-Fossil Occurrences. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(3): 429-445.
- Vigne, J.D. & Cucchi, T. (2005). Premières navigations au Proche-Orient: les informations indirectes de Chypre. Paléorient 31(1): 195-204.
- Bonhomme, F., Orth, A., Cucchi, T. , Hadjisterkotis, E. Vigne J.-D. & Auffray J.-C. (2004). Découverte d'une nouvelle espèce de souris sur l'île de Chypre. Comptes Rendus Biologies 327(5): 501-507.
- Cucchi, T. (2003). Production et distribution de biens d'origine animale en contexte seigneurial de Haute-Corse la faune mammalienne de la salle 1 du castrum de Rostino (XIIIe-XIVe siecles). Bulletin d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de la Corse 1: 70-93.
- Cucchi, T., Vigne, J. D., Auffray, J. C., Croft, P. & Peltenburg, E. (2002). Introduction involontaire de la souris domestique (Mus musculus domesticus) à Chypre dès le Néolithique précéramique ancien (fin IX[e] et VIII[e] millénaires av. J.-C.). Comptes Rendus Palevol 1(4): 235-241.
Journal papers: online
- Cucchi, T., Fujita, M. & Dobney, K. (2008). New insights into pig taxonomy, domestication and human dispersal in Islands South East Asia: Molar shape analysis of Sus remains from Niah caves (Sarawak). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Online.
