Animal Domestication

In the News

Chickens
Cattle, see also Milk
Cows, see also Milk
Dogs
Hogs / Pigs
Horses
Pets
Sheep

In the News . . .

• Humans Tamed Horses All Over the World -- Discovery News (30 January 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave: 33,000 Years Old-- ScienceDaily (23 January 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Skull Holds Clues to Dog Domestication -- NPR (27 January 2012)
  
  
• British Museum Canters Through 5,000 Years of Equine History -- Guardian (02 January 2012)
  
  
• Origins of domestic dog in Southern East Asia is supported by analysis of Y-chromosome DNA -- Heredity (23 November 2011)
  
  
• Coast Salish used dog hair in their weaving -- Past Horizons (11 November 2011)
  
  
• Horse Variety Predates Domestication -- Science (21 November 2011)
  
  
• Unwrapping the Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummy Industry [animal mummification] -- BBC News (17 November 2011)
  
  
• How Dogs Evolved Into 'Our Best Friends' -- NPR (08 November 2011)
  
  
• Food Remains in Ancient Cooking Pots Suggest Farming Caught on Slowly -- Guardian (24 October 2011)
  
  
• Prehistoric Dog Found with Mammoth Bone in Mouth -- Discovery News (07 October 2011)
  
  
• 3000 Year Old Chariots and Horses Found in China -- Past Horizons (09 September 2011 09)
  
  
• Ancient Wild Horses Help Unlock Past -- ScienceDaily (23 August 2011)
  
  
• Saudis 'find evidence of early horse domestication' -- BBC News (24 August 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Dog Skull Shows Early Pet Domestication -- National Geographic News (19 August 2011)
  
  
• A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum -- PLoS ONE (28 July 2011)
  
  
• Prehistoric Dog Domestication Derailed by Ice Age -- Discovery News (28 July 2011)
  
  
• Humans Guided Evolution of Dog Barks -- Wired (23 June 2011)
  
  
• Earliest American Dogs May Have Been Dinner -- Science (06 May 2011)
  
  
• Millions of Mummy Puppies Revealed at Egyptian Catacombs -- Live Science (30 March 2011)
  
  
• France and Lap Dogs Go Way Back -- Discovery News (28 March 2011)
  
  
• The Creature Connection -- New York Times (14 March 2011)
  
  
• Prehistoric Dog Lived, Died Among Humans -- Discovery News (28 February 2011)
  
  
• Down Boy: Investigating the Domestication of Dogs through DNA -- LiveScience (11 Februry 2011)
  
  
• University of Toronto Anthropologists Discover Earliest Cemetery in Middle East -- EurekAlert (02 February 2011)
  
  
• Oldest Domesticated Dog in Americas Found—Was Human Food -- National Geographic News (17 January 2011)

• Ancestors Of African Pygmies And Neighboring Farmers Separated Around 60,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (11 April 2009)
  
  
• Ancient DNA Identifies Donkey Ancestors, People Who Domesticated Them -- ScienceDaily (28 July 2010)
  
  
• Ancient Pig DNA Study Sheds New Light On Colonization Of Europe By Early Farmers -- ScienceDaily (4 September 2009)
  
  
• Animal Connection: New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature -- ScienceDaily (20 July 2010)
  
  
• Archaeology on the Net
  
  
• Bibliography of Agriculture and Pastoralism -- About
  
  
• Cattle
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    • Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas
  • DNA Sequence of Extinct Ancient Cattle Uncovered -- ScienceDaily (01 March 2010)
  • Livestock [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
  • Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years -- MSNBC (09 February 2010)
    
    
• Chickens, see Chickens
  
  
  
• Donkey's wild ass ancestor confirmed -- MSNBC (29 July 2010)
  
  
• Dogs
  
  
  • Dogs Domesticated for Meat -- LiveScience (08 September 2009)
  • Dog Domestication Likely Began in Africa -- Discovery News (03 August 2009)
    
  • Dog Genome Researchers Track Paw Prints of Selective Breeding -- EurekAlert (13 January 2010)
  • Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate -- ScienceDaily (17 March 2010)
  • Dogs 'Too Reliant on Humans to Think for Themselves' -- Telegraph (10 June 2010)
  • Domestic dog origins challenged -- BBC News (03 August 2009)
  • Folk Medicine Poses Global Threat to Wild Dog Species -- BBC News (14 May 2010)
  • Oldest Dog Debated -- Science News (22 July 2010)
  • Scientists Pinpoint Origins of Little Dogs -- MSNBC (24 February 2010)
  • Study Reasserts East Asian Origin for Dogs -- Science (01 September 2009)
  • Wolves Make Dog's Dinner Out of Domestication Theory -- New Scientist (24 September 2008)
    
    
• Early farmers bred different coloured animals for their own amusement
  
  
• First Americans Brought Anthrax? -- National Geographic News (23 March 2009)
  
  
• Genetics Selection Evolution [genetics and selection in farm and experimental animals] -- French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
  
  
  
• Hogs / Pigs
  
  
  • Chinese Pigs 'Direct Descendants' of First Domesticated Breeds -- ScienceDaily (20 March 2010)
  • Colourful pigs evolved through farming, not nature -- New Scientist (16 January 2009)
    
  • Hogs -- Daniel W. Gade, Cambridge World HIstory of Food
    
  • National Pig Day: 01 March in the United States -- Wikipedia
    
    
• The Holocene
  
  
  
• Horses
  
  
  • The Horse -- American Museum of Natural History
  • Horse Genome Project -- University of Kentucky
  • Horse genome unlocked by science -- BBC News (5 November 2009)
  • Horses tamed earlier than thought -- BBC News (05 April 2009)
  • Wild Iberian Horses Contributed to the Origin of the Current Iberian Domestic Stock -- EurekAlert (07 January 2010)
    
    
• Pigs, see Hogs
  
  
• Poultry
  • Native Americans tamed turkeys in 800 B.C. -- MSNBC (01 February 2010)
  • Tracking the True Tale of Turkeys -- EurekAlert (11 June 2010)
    
    
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• Transitions in Prehistory -- Tim Appenzeller, Daniel Clery, and Elizabeth Culotta
  
  
• Your Pictures: Ed Vallance [Nenets Reindeer Herders] -- BBC News (23 September 2008)
  
  
• Sheep
  • Sheepherders of Northern Nevada -- University of Nevada, Reno