The Researchers Have Defined Age Of The First Cat. Part 1 of 3

The Researchers Have Defined Age Of The First Cat. They may not hold the title of “man’s best friend,” but domesticated cats have been purring around the bagnio for a long time. Just how long? New inquire into points back at least 5300 years, at which point felines needing food and humans needing rodent killers may have entered into a mutually beneficial relationship. “We all mate cats, but they’re not a herd animal,” study co-author Fiona Marshall said.

So “They’re a solitary species, and so they’re really rare in archeological sites, which means we just don’t cognizant of much about their history with people”. New scientific methods enabled Marshall’s team to show what led to cats’ domestication. While dogs were attracted to people living as hunter-gatherers 9000 to 20000 years ago, it looks as if cats were first domesticated as farmer’s animals. “Cats had a problem obtaining food, and so were attracted to our millet grain.

And farmers had a problem with rodents, and found it useful to have cats dine them,” said Marshall, a professor of archaeology and acting chair of the anthropology department at Washington University of St Louis. The findings are published in the Dec 16, 2013 daughter of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors point out that although cats are one of the most popular pet species in the world, information regarding the timing of their domestication has been sparse, based for the most part on Egypt artifacts that date back about 4000 years and show the animals were home dwellers then.

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