Anthropology.netPigeon bones from Bronze Age Cyprus show Columba livia sharing a diet with humans by 1400 BCE, pushing the direct evidence for domestication back nearly 1,000 years. New isotope analysis in Antiquity changes the timeline. #Zooarchaeology #BronzeAge #Domestication @Antiquity https://www.anthropology.net/p/pigeon-domestication-is-nearly-a
Pigeon Domestication Is Nearly a Thousand Years Older Than We Thought
New zooarchaeological and isotopic analysis from Late Bronze Age Cyprus pushes back the direct evidence by almost a millennium.
Marcial Tenreiro-Bermudez
