History of domestication meow star people

Meow star who now has such a high position is not accidental. A recent study showed that 5,000 years ago, Chinese farmers began to domesticate called "ocelot" wild cats. If this is true, it means accepting more than once domesticated cat (5000 years ago in China, the Middle East and earlier time). Meanwhile, the study also shows that the rise of agriculture makes the domestic cat appears inevitable.

 "This is a very interesting study," the ancient zoologists from Washington University in St. Louis Fiona Marshall said. If this is true, it means that a variety of other animals, including donkeys with sheep, including, in the absence of humans that had also once been too domesticated. "This has important implications for our understanding of the domestication process."

Marshall did not participate in the work, but a few years ago she helped analyze the excavation from central China village guard Stephen obtained eight with cat bones, according to research dating back more than 5300 years. According to test results of nitrogen and oxygen, they speculated that the smaller cats to grain for food. This evidence supports a long time about how the night cat domestication hypothesis: Night Cat rushed into the barn to capture rats and mice, but people are living trapped for capturing mice. According to the fossil imprint, they think these cats had been raising for a long time local human.

However, there is a big problem that the cat wildcat protect the village spring and the Near East if there is kinship? Now our family cat ancestors 10,000 years ago in what is the Middle East domesticated cats, or whether the smaller Central Asian wildcat or leopard cats?

This study gives a statement. Director from the French National Academy of Sciences of Jean-Denis Vigne et cat nursing Bone Springs Village and two other Chinese Cat Bone ancient farming areas were further probing, focusing mandible area. The results showed that the bones belong to all cats leopard cat, not the Near East species. Related results were published in "PLoS ONE" magazine latest issue.
( Bolise Co., Ltd. )