Archaeological remains at Swan Point and Hollembaek Hill, Alaska, show that people and the ancestors of today’s dogs began forming close relationships as early as 12,000 years ago
Movement of crops, animals played a key role in domestication, as a long-term gene flow between wild and domestic species was much more common than previously appreciated
Earliest evidence for domestic yak found in the southern Tibetan Plateau, using both archaeology and ancient DNA
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