Cats were domesticated 5000 years ago in China!

Scientists in China on fossil cats in their views about the information revealed so far remained hidden. Fossils dating back five thousand years ago, cats used to catch mice and thus argues that domestication.

One of our favorite two pet cats although we do not know much about history . In China from the rest of the Stone Age excavations in a village for many years to researchers wondered if they could have shown the answers to questions .

Located in the central region of China from Quanhuc farmers in the village five thousand three hundred year-old fossils found in the excavations of cats than people thought for a long time claimed that living together .

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States takes place in research published in the journal of the University of Washington Fiona Marshall, " Cat began to live with people they have reached the first evidence of the process ," he said . Marshall, by hunter-gatherer tribes began to be domesticated thousands of years ago compared to dogs , cats ' pets as farmers ' began to live together with people , he said.

According to the news in USA Today , the ancient farmers in the village in the cat's bones were found in the remains surprisingly much grain . These findings , wild cats, pet cats were considered as evidence of a process of transformation .

FARE TO SNAG 'fosil not been investigated because of the DNA , the researchers emphasize two possibilities . Located in China cats or pets were brought from the Middle East , or were domesticated by farmers .
U.S. geneticist at the University of Missouri with Leslie Lysons , " Feral cats are shy animals ... most likely due to the mouse moved closer to human settlements and allow villagers to catch them ," he said .
Lysonsy , wild cats to catch mice domesticated once said that the theory be true . Some of the cat 's teeth to be worn fossils , wild cats, fed by farmers for many years, arguing that the village was another finding .
Join discovered the first findings related to pet cats , four thousand years of ancient Egypt were the drawings . Scientists Quanhuc on fossil DNA analysis aims to uncover the origin of the cat .

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