Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site
Early crop plants were more plastic and easily ‘tamed’: new perspectives on plant domestication are shown in a study published in PLoS ONE
The world’s first horse riders: researchers discovered evidence by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans
Ancient tools provide earliest evidence of rice harvesting; the researchers identified two methods of harvesting rice
What ancient dung reveals about Epipaleolithic animal tending: a study about Abu Hureyra, published on PLoS One
An article published in Science shows the origins of donkey domestication Africa in 5,000 B.C.E, around the time when the Sahara became the desert region we know today
Archeological findings that could rewrite the history of bird domestication: the oldest type of poultry ever domesticated may have been geese
Origin of domestic horses finally established. Horses were first domesticated in the Pontic-Caspian steppes, northern Caucasus, before conquering the rest of Eurasia
Recent archaeological finds of ancient preserved apple seeds across Europe and West Asia combined with historical, paleontological, and recently published genetic data are presenting a fascinating new narrative for one of our most familiar fruits
A new study tells the genetic history of the domestic horse over the last 5,000 years by using the largest genome collection ever generated for a non-human organism
