The Domestication of Animals

During the book, Diamond talks a lot about farming and how the early humans ate, how they got places and how they farmed. I am interested in how plants and animals get domesticated anyway so I went into a little bit of research and found out these following facts.
Domestication of animals first took place over 12,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. The early humans first began to tame animals in order to get their meat and hides. The hides were used for shelter and clothing. Goats were most likely the first animals to be domesticated, which were followed closely by sheep. 10,000 years ago, chickens were domesticated in now South East Asia. Later on, people began domesticating larger animals, such as horses and ox, for the primary use of plowing and transportation. Because herbivores that graze are easy to tame considering they don't need humans to kill their food for them and their food isn't a special item. Grass was easy to obtain and get, so oxen, horses, and cows, were easy to tame and domesticate.
So, early humans weren't exactly what we would now call smart, but they were smart for all those years ago. They figured out how to farm and travel and make do with what they had. They had the basic survival skills that we all possess now, but wouldn't exactly know how to do unless we had help.




https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/domestication/

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