When Did Cats Start Being Domesticated at Kathleen Mccarthy blog

When Did Cats Start Being Domesticated. When did cats become house pets? But genetic and archaeological discoveries made over the past 15 years have. Scholars long believed that the ancient egyptians were the first to keep cats as pets, starting around 3,600 years ago. In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, dna analysis suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were domesticated. Although cats have been domesticated—i.e., they can live with humans—for as long as 12,000 years, the cats of early civilizations could hardly be called pets. Felines started to be kept for Scientists studied ancient dna globally and found that cat domestication began in the near east in what’s now west asia. All domestic cats, the authors declared, descended from a middle eastern wildcat, felis sylvestris, which literally means cat of the.

Scholars long believed that the ancient egyptians were the first to keep cats as pets, starting around 3,600 years ago. All domestic cats, the authors declared, descended from a middle eastern wildcat, felis sylvestris, which literally means cat of the. Scientists studied ancient dna globally and found that cat domestication began in the near east in what’s now west asia. In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, dna analysis suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were domesticated. Although cats have been domesticated—i.e., they can live with humans—for as long as 12,000 years, the cats of early civilizations could hardly be called pets. But genetic and archaeological discoveries made over the past 15 years have. Felines started to be kept for When did cats become house pets?

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When Did Cats Start Being Domesticated In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, dna analysis suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were domesticated. Felines started to be kept for All domestic cats, the authors declared, descended from a middle eastern wildcat, felis sylvestris, which literally means cat of the. Although cats have been domesticated—i.e., they can live with humans—for as long as 12,000 years, the cats of early civilizations could hardly be called pets. Scientists studied ancient dna globally and found that cat domestication began in the near east in what’s now west asia. When did cats become house pets? Scholars long believed that the ancient egyptians were the first to keep cats as pets, starting around 3,600 years ago. But genetic and archaeological discoveries made over the past 15 years have. In a new comprehensive study of the spread of domesticated cats, dna analysis suggests that cats lived for thousands of years alongside humans before they were domesticated.