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Animal husbandry

  • PigArchaeological evidence places the first domestication of pigs in the Near East around the Tigris Basin more than 11,400 years ago.
  • Animal husbandryThe first wild animal to be domesticated was the dog, perhaps starting with young individuals tolerated as scavengers and killers of vermin.
  • PastoralHesiod's Works and Days presents a golden age when people lived together in harmony with nature. This Golden Age shows that even before the Alexandrian age…