Fossils of early hominins have been found exclusively in Africa. While the australopiths only spread within Africa, members of the genus Homo were the first to leave their home continent, roughly 2 million years ago, thus expanding their settlement area
However, while examples of the ways in which horses transformed human societies abound across the New and Old Worlds, the process by which Equus caballus transitioned from a wild animal to the basis of many global pastoral economies is poorly understood. Here, we draw upon the archaeological ...
First, they would have found that breastfed piglets often became closely bonded to their individual human caregivers and socialised with people within the wider family and community. That is, through humans intervening in the filial imprinting process, the piglets became tame animals that were ...
This change may be explained by the replacement of local dogs with more improved breeds from the southern part of Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the Near East during Late Antiquity and the Medieval age [22]. 1.2. Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods: Specifics of Human Societies ...