What country or region started the culture of domesticating animals?

What country or region started the culture of domesticating animals?

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Animal domestication is some cave man, shit,

It has started many times in different parts of the world

as far as i know horses were first domesticated in central asia, chicken in south asia. most farm-animals like sheeps, goats, pigs and cows were domesticated in europe and wolves (or dogs) were most likely domesticated by the first humans entering europe (or possibly by neanderthals, already living in europe).

oh and i forgot to mention- cats literally domesticated themselves: human settlings attract rats and mice > they attract cats > cats save the granarys > cats and humans start coexisting
pic related- what undomesticated cats look like

i dont mean in the master servant type way, i mean in the friendship for shits and giggles like for company type way

Why are cats so cute

probably dogs in the steppes of russia/whateveristan
or wheat in iraq/egypt

because they domesticated themselves with cuteness
cats that didnt rip each others throats out got to breed and have kids that didnt

we didnt breed them to serve a purpose (food, milk, hunting help), they were tolerated since they didnt hinder us, and the ones who could be nice and get more food from humans were the ones who got to breed more
the more a cat could mimic a human baby there more likely it was to live (their meows are the same pitch as a crying baby)

Egypt's cat cult helped out for a bit too (kicking or throwing or otherwise hurting a cat was punishable by death in ancient egypt, nor matter what your reason), cats were even mummified with the same funeral rites as humans
Egyptians literally lost wars because of their fondness for cats


and theres a nice genetic bottle neck with modern cats, every single domestic cat tested today is related to a few cats that lived in egypt in the 7000's bc

Still in the caves.

How do I squat like that?

dogs in russia or ukraine or afghanistan

China

Genetics is pretty interesting stuff all in all, it's remarkable how only a select number of individuals can end up making up for a whole species. Case in point, all whitetail deer in Finland are descendent of 6 individuals imported from Minnesota, and hunters bag ~20k of them every year. And there aren't any observable genetic issues in them.

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Hit the gym, tubby

one of the boys

>neanderthals
>domesticating animals

Ooga ooga animal, come here, make egg

Actually most livestock were first domesticated in the Middle East.

There's no way domestication could've began in Europe given that nobody in Europe was farming 5000 years ago.

thats what i mean, makes no fuckin sense

neanderthals were stronger and smarter than humans so its easily possible

they didnt have puberty until their 20's tho, so homosapiens were able to fuck and reproduce faster

true that, and thats not even getting into how we domesticated plants

we still dont know how ancient humans domesticated crapgrass into corn

a lot of the plant shit was probably natural mutations tbqh

>smarter than humans
Stop

no, not at all

many plants cannot reproduce without human help
hell some animals cant reproduce without human help now

their brains were bigger, they just had to coordinate more tasks than we do

no one did then, it was just partially that and later became solely that (only in the past century)

they couldn't even into culture or ranged weaponry

humans were and are vastly superior

humans were only superior because we fucked more and had a larger range
and we could hybridize with male neanderthals ( well they could have kids that wernt sterile with human women anyways)

Cows were domesticated in what is now Iran.

and thailand
but it is odd how cows were only domesticated twice, compared to the dozens of times dogs and sheep/goats were

you probably needed to lose a few slaves a year for decades before you finally got bulls that didnt gore humans on sight, not to mention allowed humans to milk the cows

Mesoamericans had domesticated dogs, not sure if these were brought by their old world ancestors of if they represent a separate domestication event. The only other domestic animal they had was turkeys.

In South America the Inca had llamas and guinea pigs at the very least, possibly some others.

dogs have been bread everywhere since 35000 years ago

they are pack hunters who live in clans
we are pack hunters who live in clans
and we hunt the same thing most of the time


mexico/panama had ducks, and turkeys are from america too, not sure how far south they were

native americans (or the ice age) kind of killed off most large animals we could have domesticated. there were (smaller) horses and (smaller) elephants in the americas that went extinct a few thousand years after humans migrated from alaska on south

Turkeys are from Mesoamerica, the American Natives claim is dubious at best and hints at a second domestication event (after Mesoamerica), but even so, all the Turkeys that were brought to the old world came from Central Mexico.

Why is Turkey called Turkey if it didn't came from turkey?

They are called guajolotes

there were dogs native to the americas that european dogs could breed with, so if they wernt fully domesticated they were at least working animals to the natives
the first fully domesticated dogs were from china though

europe got turkeys from british ships that stopped in the middle east (turkey) on their way home from america
so they thought that the birds originated in turkey (because people couldnt google that kind of stuff to fact check)

and the name has kind of stuck since

Turkey is nowhere near the way to Britain from America, you mome. The colonists mistook turkeys for guineafowl, which used to be called "turkeys".

There are two theories for the derivation of the name "turkey" for this bird, according to Columbia University professor of Romance languages Mario Pei. One theory is that when Europeans first encountered turkeys in America, they incorrectly identified the birds as a type of guineafowl, which were already being imported into Europe by Turkey merchants via Constantinople and were therefore nicknamed Turkey coqs. The name of the North American bird thus became "turkey fowl" or "Indian turkeys", which was then shortened to just "turkeys".
The other theory arises from turkeys coming to England from the Americas via merchant ships from the Middle East where they were domesticated successfully. Again the importers lent the name to the bird: because these merchants were called "Turkey merchants" as much of the area was part of the Ottoman Empire. Hence the name "Turkey birds" or, soon thereafter, "turkeys".