Humans probably didn't mean to tame sheep and goats

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At the Stone Age village of Aşıklı Höyük, archaeologists can see exactly how sheep and goat domestication played out over a millenium.

taviphoto/Deposit PhotosEvery domestic animal presents a mystery of how it came to be. Sometime in the distant past, an animal—whether wolf, wild ox, jungle fowl, or boar—started to trot down a road that ended with reliance on, or even trust in, human beings.

“The puzzle comes together,” says Mary Stiner, a zooarchaeologist at the University of Arizona, and the first author on the new study, “and you get to see the big picture.” The puzzle is why people would have raised young animals at all. “We can’t expect people to imagine an outcome”—like a herd of managed animals—”that was beyond any experience people would have had,” Stiner points out.

Four hundred years later, by about 8,000 BCE, the residents of the village lived there full-time. They began to keep bigger herds, and traces of dung became big piles. A few of those animals started to reproduce, as growing numbers of miscarried sheep and goat skeletons in the settlement show.Those unborn skeletons are also evidence of another kind: a steep learning curve for successfully raising livestock.

 

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